February 3, 2010
Outsourcing support staff employees will be further reviewed by the Kansas City, Kan., School District Board of Education. During a special budget meeting Tuesday, the board asked staff to prepare a request for proposals that could allow private companies the chance to bid on positions held by custodians, security officers, nutritional services workers and bus […]
February 3, 2010
PEORIA — A longer school day, performance-based merit pay for teachers, even charter-like qualities could move to the front of Peoria classrooms in exchange for public and private dollars. School District 150, one of just a dozen urban school districts statewide that has signed on to initiate classroom changes and which contains some of Illinois’ […]
February 3, 2010
Three low-performing suburban school districts could receive priority access to special federal funding to ramp up achievement, the state board of education has announced. While extra money is welcomed at a time when districts across the suburbs are facing deep deficits – school officials met the news with caution Tuesday. "The prospect of getting funds […]
February 3, 2010
An elementary school would close and the school year would be reduced by five days if all the budget-cutting proposals discussed at the Hemet school board meeting Tuesday are approved. The Hemet Unified School District is trying to eliminate a $19.7 million budget shortfall for the 2010-11 school year. The district’s budget for 2009-10 is […]
February 3, 2010
The Hillsboro School District is conducting exploratory meetings to gauge interest in the possibility of adding a school-based health center at one or more of its schools. Adolescents in particular are the least likely to seek help for health concerns through traditional office-based settings, and advocates of a school-based care say many suffer from conditions […]
February 3, 2010
Right now, state lawmakers are threatening the most important thing in the world to me – my child’s education – and neither I nor the 3,000 charter school parents I went to Albany with yesterday will stand for it. For the second year in a row, the state is planning to double-cut public charter school […]
February 3, 2010
Last week, Kansas state Sen. Dick Kelsey bravely took a stand against funding schools, introducing a nonbinding resolution saying the Kansas Supreme Court should not get to tell lawmakers how much to spend on education and the schools should not be allowed to use taxpayer dollars to sue for more tax dollars. After introducing this […]
February 3, 2010
Northern Virginia officials are continuing to lobby Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) to oppose a freeze in the adjustment to the school funding formula known as the local composite index, a change proposed by former Gov. Tim Kaine (D) in his final two-year budget that would prove costly to the region’s school systems. In recent days, […]
February 3, 2010
SANDWICH — The Sandwich School Department is developing a set of qualifications for its next director of special education. The special education parent advisory council met with Superintendent Mary Ellen Johnson last week to discuss those qualifications. Johnson hired interim director Merle Montani last June after former director Hank Perrin left the district. Perrin accepted […]
February 2, 2010
Education department and union officials praised President Obama’s propose d changes to the way the feds fund education Monday – but each said the other could weaken New York’s chances. Obama wants to make an additional $1 billion available for school improvement if Congress passes sweeping changes to the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law. […]