March 8, 2010
LANSING, Mich. — School districts will lay off more teachers, reduce bus service and trim support for sports next academic year unless Michigan shores up its education funding system, an advocacy group said Monday. A coalition of education groups called Save our Students, Schools and State says schools would be forced to make their deepest […]
March 8, 2010
Missouri’s budget troubles have reopened divisions among public schools, which after uniting in a quest for more money now are splintering over who should bear the brunt of state funding cuts. The budding disagreement at the Missouri Capitol comes down to a difference of opinion about what is fair — an argument not unlike what […]
March 6, 2010
VISTA — The Vista school board Thursday night took a few steps closer toward balancing the 2010-11 budget by narrowing a deficit exceeding $18 million. In the latest round of cuts, trustees for the Vista Unified School District voted to trim more than $500,000 in expenses. The cuts will reduce magnet school funding and various […]
March 5, 2010
About 200 people filled a conference room at the Quincy School District Board office to hear the Board’s next move regarding $3.8 million in cuts. But School District officials said discussion of $2 million of those cuts would happen in closed session Wednesday night and no action would be taken until the Board’s regular March […]
March 5, 2010
PIERRE, SD – The budget has been the talk of South Dakota’s legislative session for the past two months, but that talk has now turned into more than $40 million in cuts to state government. With one week left in the session, Republicans released a list Thursday that lays out programs that could get cut […]
March 5, 2010
LINCOLN — An unexpected $16.3 million increase in the amount Nebraska will have to give schools could force deeper cuts in state agency budgets. It will also make it tougher to pass a bill that continues prenatal care for undocumented immigrants. The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee struggled Thursday to bring the state budget back in balance […]
March 5, 2010
NEW HAVEN — United Way of Greater New Haven has begun work with the city and Board of Education to boost and streamline nonprofit services aimed at improving mental and physical health of students and famili es. The effort, dubbed BOOST, was announced Thursday as a key component of the city’s school reform effort, which […]
March 5, 2010
More state budget cuts coming tomorrow TOPEKA – Gov. Mark Parkinson will announce more cuts to the state budget Friday morning. The announcement comes on the heals of February revenue numbers which showed tax receipts lagging about $71 million behind expectations. Already, lawmakers are expecting a $400 million plus shortfall for the fiscal year 2011 […]
March 5, 2010
The Lyon County School District is facing a budget shortfall of about $4 million for the coming year, and the district is currently working on ways to trim its budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year. According to figures provided by Superintendent Caroline McIntosh and Director of Finance Wade Johnson, the general fund revenues for 2011 […]
March 5, 2010
California was disqualified Thursday from receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in school reform funds when federal education leaders announced that 15 other states and Washington, D.C., are in the running for billions in federal grants. The money at stake is the first round of $4.35 billion that the Obama administration plans to give states […]