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 […]
January 20, 2010
Tuesday education leaders held a news conference to highlight their concerns about the future of charter schools in North Carolina. The timing of the event was no coincidence because today the state submitted an application for more than $400M in federal funding. However, there are concerns the current laws governing charter schools in NC may […]
January 20, 2010
California sent off their application for the Race to the Top grant program to Washington D.C. on Monday and will now be eligible for about one billion dollars in funding, but Turlock will see no money out of the $4.35 billion Race to the Top federal budget. At the Jan. 5 Turlock Unified School District […]
January 20, 2010
District and Virginia officials formally made their case for more than $450 million in federal education funds Tuesday, asserting in sometimes glowing terms that their reform efforts to date make them deserving of money from President Obama’s Race to the Top initiative to overhaul public schools. As 40 states and the District met Tuesday’s deadline […]
January 20, 2010
The Orange County School District is the largest district in Central Florida, and this year is operating on a budget slashed by approximately $40 million dollars from the year before. Still, as astounding as it might sound, the district’s teachers union , has not signed-off on an application for money available through the federal Race […]
January 20, 2010
For a few minutes Tuesday, it looked like Broward School Board members could change their minds about sitting out the Race to the Top contest for millions of federal dollars. The Florida Department of Education briefly gave Broward an 11th-hour chance over the weekend to reconsider not signing on to the state’s application for the […]
January 20, 2010
Pennsylvania’s impressive record of academic gains, coupled with an innovative strategy for building on those achievements, puts the state in a strong position to land up to $400 million through the highly competitive federal "Race to the Top" program, Governor Edward G. Rendell Enhanced Coverage LinkingEdward G. Rendell -Search using: News, Most Recent 60 Days […]
January 20, 2010
When the slumping economy put an estimated $6 billion shortfall between revenue and spending in the current state budget, Florida lawmakers looking for ways to avoid slashing education found a white knight in almost $1 billion of federal economic stimulus money. Education on the Treasure Coast got more than $60 million of it, according to […]
January 19, 2010
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will outline a spending plan Tuesday that relies heavily on shuffling money between bank accounts and cuts to almost all state programs except K-12 education to close an 18 percent budget gap, according to sources familiar with his plan. The single biggest fix would come from transferring funds, including one controlled […]
January 19, 2010
Dave Trabert and the Kansas Policy Institute continue to imply that Kansas public school districts have plenty of money and can use carryover money to avoid budget cuts ("Tax increases and lawsuit not needed," Jan. 10 Opinion). Trabert did acknowledge that some carryover is necessa ry, but he did not provide information on why the […]