January 19, 2010
Getting her son the help he needs has never been easy for Mary Lou Woynar of Westbrook. She’s had to educate herself and be assertive and vocal. Woynar believes it is largely because of her efforts that her son Max, 11, is receiving extra academic support. Max, in fifth grade at Westbrook Middle School, has […]
January 19, 2010
President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress for an extra $1.35 billion to expand his signature education program, designed to prod states into revamping their school systems, even while promising a barebones 2011 federal budget. The request, which Mr. Obama intends to announce Tuesday, marks an early example of the administration moving to transform a […]
January 19, 2010
Citing a lack of information and funding, the Berkeley Unified School District has opted not to join the more than 700 California education agencies in the state’s bid to compete for a share of a $4.8 billion federal education grant as part of President Barack Obama’s "Race to the Top" program. Participating states would apply […]
January 19, 2010
New York, home of the nation’s largest school district, is on the verge of rejecting key components of the White House’s education effort amid a state fight over charter schools. The Democratic-led legislature, with heavy backing from teachers’ unions, is behind a law that critics, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, say will curb […]
January 19, 2010
Salinas teachers and administrators are keeping a close eye on the governor’s budget proposal.The financial blueprint, which Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released Jan. 8, would cut deep and wide across California public education. Funding for school district administration would drop by $1.2 billion, for county offices of education by $45 million, and the state’s class-size reduction […]
January 19, 2010
A "gold-standard" health clinic is about to open at Brooklyn Center High School, an operation that matches up with the best in-school centers in terms of services offered. The expectation is that it will be good for students’ health and their education. The $260,000 clinic, paid for with donations, will open Feb. 1 and offer […]
January 19, 2010
The T aos Municipal Schools District could be required to reimburse the state for joint federal and state Medicaid payments for students needing disability assistance, a New Mexico Human Services Department spokesperson says. The department found that the district inappropriately billed claims last year, HSD spokesperson Betina Gonzales McCracken said. The payments were made under […]
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 18, 2010
Iowa’s K-12 public school districts will have to wait a year before they know how much state foundation aid funding they can expe ct for their fiscal 2012 budgets. The Senate voted 46-0 Thursday to delay for one year a statutory requirement to establish the percentage “allowable growth” increase for K-12 schools and accompanying educational […]
January 18, 2010
A funny thing happened today at the U.S. Department of Education’s expert hearing on how state procurement rules can affect the process of designing commo n assessments. It got interesting. I freely confess that I went in wondering if I would lapse into semi-consciousness, lost in the tall weeds of conversation about obscure regulations and […]