January 21, 2010
PEORIA — A draft budget for education spending in Illinois for 2010-11 recommends maintaining current levels in general state aid for school districts and near-similar spending in special education and transportation. But what education officials from the state level to the local level are preparing for is the possibility of massive cuts. About $1 billion […]
January 21, 2010
Officials from both Iredell-Statesville Schools and the Mooresville Graded School District are hopeful North Carolina’s application for a "Race To The Top" grant will be answered with a much-needed cash infusion. On Monday, Gov. Beverly Perdue sent North Carolina’s application for the federal program, which was derived from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of […]
January 21, 2010
OLEAN – Various school officials in Western New York have responded to an apparent failure by the state to apply for federal education funding by Tuesday’s deadline. Olean City School District was one of several hundred that signed a Memo of Understanding for requesting funding from Race to the Top, a competitive U.S. Department of […]
January 21, 2010
MILFORD — Acting Superintendent R. Michael Cummings has presented the Board of Education with a proposed $85.4 million budget for 2010-11, a $4 million hike from the current spending package. The school board will consider possible cuts to the plan this week, before voting on a final education budget next Tuesday night for the fiscal […]
January 21, 2010
Brown Deer – With 17 fruit smoothies to make and orders for coffee and hot chocolate coming in via e-mail, messenger, or from the occasional staff member who stopped by, the Falcon Express Café was busy during the first teaching block of the day recently at Brown Deer High School. Three students counted and bagged […]
January 21, 2010
Florida’s Broward County Public Schools saved as many as 900 jobs this school year. Nevada’s Clark County School District just added more math and tutoring programs. And in Connecticut’s Bloomfield Public Schools, eight elementary- and middle-school teachers were spared from layoffs. These cash-strapped districts covered the costs using a boost in funding intended for special […]
January 21, 2010
While the Department of Special Services at the Madison Public Schools receives federal funding, that funding pays for only a portion of the federally mandated needs budgeted by the district. “One hundred percent funding (from the federal government) would have funded districts at 40 percent,” said Nancy Novak, director of special services for the grades […]
January 21, 2010
North country school districts with higher property values would see deeper school aid reductions than others, as part of Gov. David A. Paterson’s budget proposal. "They’re looking for some of the wealthier school districts to share more of the burden," Sackets Harbor Superintendent Frederick E. Hall Jr. said. "And if you look at the numbers […]
January 21, 2010
The public will have its first shot at the school district’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget tonight at Little Harbour Elementary School. In the wake of City Council members asking department heads to look at developing a 2011 budget that would be 4 percent below the current budget, the School Board is bracing itself for budget […]
January 21, 2010
Local schools will fac e tough decisions in the coming year if Governor Paterson’s proposed cuts to state aid make it through to the final state budget, according to local superintendents. “We’re an organization built upon personnel and student programming. We are heavily dependent upon state aid to run our programs,” said Gerard O’Sullivan, superintendent […]