April 2, 2010

Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall announced yesterday that Questa Independent Schools will receive $8.6 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the Land of Enchantment Teacher Quality Partnership. The grant will fund 50 special education teachers and 50 principals over the next five years in the Chama Valley, Dulce, Cuba, Jemez Mountain, Mesa Vista, Questa, Peñasco and Central […]

April 2, 2010

Saranac Community Schools (SCS) Board of Education members approved the budget reduction plan at Thursday’s meeting, with SCS Treasurer Mark Howe being the only one to oppose it.     The plan involves reducing staff by 11 personnel, transferring teachers, eliminating certain bus runs and converting several sports to clubs. The sports will not affect JV […]

April 2, 2010

Just as Passaic River floodwaters that marooned the grades K-3 Stevenson School building slowly began to recede Thursday, March 18, the state cut most financial aid to the grades K-6 school district, hacking $525,000 from formula state aid for the next school year. School Business Administrator William Stepka talked about the 98 percent cutback in […]

April 2, 2010

Special education services will be stretched thin if the Springfield School District is unable to find an extra $36,000 in the budget. By a unanimous vote Wednesday night, the School Board cut the special education director’s position by 30 percent. While the vote was unanimous, it was also reluctant. "We need to cut the special […]

April 2, 2010

The local school board has designated a series of cuts to implement a $100,000 budget reduction imposed last week by the board of finance. The school board at a special meeting Wednesday identified three cuts in the proposed $7.29 million budget for Essex Elementary School in 2010-2011 that would match the $100,000 reduction ordered by […]

April 2, 2010

The impacts of budgets cuts are making their way into the halls of Poudre School District schools. Two special-needs teachers at Zach Core Knowledge School will not be rehired next year because of budget cuts, Principal Don Rangel said Thursday. However, only one position is going away, and Zach will continue serving its special-needs students, […]

April 2, 2010

Apr. 1–Vacaville Unified School District would see the largest reduction in per student funding of all districts in Solano County under cutbacks in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal, according to the nonpartisan California Budget Project. Across Solano County, the proposed cuts in state funding for districts would be as high as $6.4 million for Fairfield-Suisun Unified to […]

April 1, 2010

It’s bad news for those involved in the Columbia Borough School District’s special education program: Gov. Ed Rendell’s proposed 2010-2011 budget contains no increase for special education. "It would be fine if the cost of special education were staying the same. But the fact is that the cost of special education is rising," Tom Strickler, […]

April 1, 2010

The Missouri Senate voted Tuesday to shield more than one-quarter of Missouri’s public school districts from a midyear funding shortfall. Declining state revenue led Gov. Jay Nixon to conclude earlier this year that Missouri wouldn’t have enough money to make midyear payments to districts totaling $43 million. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education had […]

April 1, 2010

Education funding is still being heavily debated in the Michigan legislature, with many parents and candidates puzzled by what’s going on and seeking soluti ons. Members of the Northville Democratic Club had a Town Hall Meeting March 9 at the Northville Public Library, inviting three education experts to speak on this hot topic. Speakers included […]