January 30, 2010
Educators again warned state lawmakers Tuesday that severe budget cuts will hurt public education and pleaded for more flexibility in the way school districts deal with lower funding. School superintendents want more freedom in determining class sizes and permission to cut employee pay or to furlough teachers and other district employees, which school boards cannot […]
January 29, 2010
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Republican senate leaders say they are committed to giving Missouri schools the full amount of money called for under the states school financing formula. Missouri governor Jay Nixon proposed a budget that would give public schools barely one-sixth of the funding increase called for under the financial formula for next school […]
January 29, 2010
HARLEM VALLEY — It was a “What do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news?” kind of week for school districts in the state of New York last week, as Gov. David Paterson u nveiled his 2010-11 budget proposal. While delayed payments in state aid and STAR (the state’s School […]
January 29, 2010
BOONSBORO — Mental health services are to be provided at Boonsboro High School and Boonsboro Middle School soon, possibly next month, according to the executive director of Washington County Community Partnership for Children & Families. Executive Director Stephanie Stone told the Washington County Commissioners during a meeting Tuesday night at Funkstown Town Hall that the […]
January 29, 2010
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Developing comprehensive behavioral health services for children, youth, young adults and families will be the subject of the annual spring conference of Community Care, a nonprofit behavioral health managed care organization that is part of UPMC and based in Pittsburgh. "Creating Hope: Developing Communities of Care for Children, Youth, Young […]
January 28, 2010
U.S. Secretary Arne Duncan revealed today that, while President Barack Obama hopes to freeze most domestic spending in the next federal budget, education is an area where the administration wants to spend more. Duncan said the administration’s super-secret plan, which he will discuss in detail next week, would devote about $3 billion more — an […]
January 28, 2010
LAND O’LAKES — Parents and teachers of children with special education needs had looked forward to Wednesday evening for quite some time. It was their turn to talk to Pasco County state lawmakers about their issues and concerns. They had waited about a year, through two canceled sessions, to get there. And even then, just […]
January 28, 2010
As peer reviewers for the U.S. Department of Education begin to comb through the thousands of pages of applications for $4 billion in federal Race to the Top Fund grants, they’ll be under pressure to determine which are most worthy of funding: those that promise the most, or those with the best chance of delivering. […]
January 28, 2010
Oops! The sea of red ink engulfing the Los Angeles Unified School District budget is turning into an ocean of scarlet. The district was expecting to face a $470 million dollar deficit next year. But this is now balloonin g into a potentially $670 million dollar shortfall. District officials discovered this after reading the fine […]
January 28, 2010
HARTFORD — – The way the state distributes money to charter, magnet and technical schools, and even local school systems, is such a tangled mess of funding formulas that the entire system should be reformed, a committee of the State Board of Education decided Wednesday. "We have an absolutely irrational and unsustainable funding system," said […]