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 […]
March 5, 2010
Florida House Speaker Larry Cretul issued a budget allocation plan Thursday that would increase state funding for public schools by 9 percent to offset a $788 million drop in local property tax receipts, but he warned it won’t be enough to avoid some spending cuts. Cretul also included a 19 percent increase for health care […]
March 4, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY — GOP senators backed a $1 tax increase on a pack of cigarettes in their closed-door caucus Wednesday — and, for the second day in a row, endorsed cutting public education by $21 million to pay for other state needs. "This has a way of bringing you to the table, when you […]
March 4, 2010
TOPEKA, Kan. – Harmony broke out in a House Education Committee meeting Wednesday morning. Both the proponents and opponents of House Bill 2409, a special education funding proposal, agreed that the current $25,000 threshold that schools must meet before receiving what is known as catastrophic aid is too low. Catastrophic aid is money schools receive […]
March 3, 2010
Topeka — A Senate committee has approved a bill that would change how some special education funding is distributed in the state. The bill approved Monday by the Senate Education Committee is in response to a controversy over catastrophic aid funding, which pays for aid for students with extremely expensive needs. School districts across the […]
March 3, 2010
SIERRA VISTA — A restructuring of the Sierra Vista school district’s health insurance plan has been part of the administration’s recommendations to balance the budget for next year for several months. A presentation of what this recommendation will likely look like for employees was the focus of a public work session at Buena High School […]
March 3, 2010
Public school enrollment fell slightly this school year in Jackson County and statewide, according to a state report released Tuesday. But the drops could carry a big pricetag for some districts, including Medford. The county lost 372 public school students, from 28,367 to 27,995, between years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010, a drop of about 1 percent. […]
March 3, 2010
Downers Grove, IL — Classrooms are getting an unwelcome increase in size — but school officials are hoping for a budget breakthrough to bring the class sizes back down. Community High School District 99 will see an increase in class sizes for the 2010-11 school year after the Board of Education approved a reduction in […]
March 3, 2010
Thousands of Utah junior high and high school students could lose school bus services if a bill that gained overwhelming support in the House on Tuesday passes. Under HB166, junior high and high school students who live less than three miles from school might no longer get bus service. Schools would still be allowed to […]
March 3, 2010
The Southland’s largest school district, like many others in the region, is moving forward with teacher layoffs. Los Angeles Unified’s board of education voted today to send 5,200 provisional layoff notices to district employees. About half of those notices will go to managers who hold teaching credentials. Most of the rest wi ll go to […]