February 17, 2010
Families Together in New York State brought families and youth to Albany on Jan. 9 to meet with legislators to discuss the challenges faced by parents and their children with special needs. The parent-run Families Together organization, which represents thousands of families across the state, has a legislative policy agenda for this year that pushes […]
February 16, 2010
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (KFVS) – Want to attend a high school in the district you don’t live in? One lawmaker thinks that shouldn’t be a problem. Senator Rob Mayer of Dexter has proposed a bill that would allow for open enrollment in Missouri public schools. Greenville Superintendent Jim Morrison says his district will lose students […]
February 15, 2010
The Kansas Supreme Court announced today that it will not re-open the school finance lawsuit it ruled on in 2006. Schools for Fair Funding, a coalition of 74 school districts, asked the court to re-open the case claiming that the legislature was not complying with earlier court orders and constitutional mandates to provide adequate funding […]
February 15, 2010
The Orangeburg Consolidated School District Five board voted last Tuesday night to transfer more than $1 million from the district’s general fund to cover deficits in the Medicaid and Medicaid Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Services accounts. The Medicaid account climbed to a deficit of $690,225 over a period of six years and the MAAPS account reached […]
February 15, 2010
Harding University issued the following news release: Upon receiving full recognition from the Council for Exceptional Children, the Master of Education in Early Childhood Special Education program in the Cannon-Clary College of Education at Harding University continues to meet Arkansas requirements to offer licensure within the state. Arkansas requires that institutions of higher education be […]
February 15, 2010
The special education director of the city’s public schools introduced a plan Thursday night to cut 12 positions and reduce local spending by $1 million in the program’s $16 million budget starting July 1. Barbara Dee also showed School Committee members her preliminary assessment of the resource room staffing across the district, which indicates the […]
February 12, 2010
The federal budget proposed by President Barack Obama last week included $250 million in new special education funds, but some advocates say that’s not enough. The president’s budget proposal includes $11.8 billion for special education funding to the states, $250 million more than in 2010. That works out to an average of $1,750 for each […]
February 12, 2010
Mismanagement of a Medicaid program over the last eight years could cost the state as much as $17 million, and has prompted lawmakers to call for an audit in the Department of Health and Social Services. The federal government isn’t going to pay millions the state expected as reimbursements for a Medicaid program cancelled for […]
February 12, 2010
Legislation to protect black students hits Amity for having too many white students with autism. The unexpected consequence of a well-intentioned federal law is financial penalties against the Amity school district because it has too many white, autistic students.</p&g t; Under the federal law, the district — which operates the middle schools and high school […]
February 11, 2010
ATLANTA — The State Board of Education has upheld recent approvals of charter schools by the state’s Charter School Commission. That means another lawsuit against the state regarding charter school funding. GA Board of Education will vote tomorrow on whether to stay Charter School Commission decisions on recently approved schools. Several local school districts asked […]