January 18, 2010
Although education leaders have bemoaned what they call cuts in the governor’s K-12 education budget, state officials insist it continues funding at current levels. School district administrators say the budget proposal would deny them revenue they’ve been expecting, essentially amounting to a $1.5 billion cut. A spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week characterized the […]
January 18, 2010
Catskill Central School District is hoping to participate in a competitive federal funding program called Race To The Top, or RTTT, with Board of Education members approving a Memorandum of Understanding on the matter at Wednesday’s meeting. CSD Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kathleen Farrell told board members the plan requires “certain corresponding” activities by the […]
January 18, 2010
As the deadline approaches for Colorado to join the race for $4 billion in federal dollars toward education, Poudre School District has joined about 74 districts from the state in getting behind Colorado’s application for the federal Race to the Top program. The school board voted 5-2 Tuesday to participate in the program. If selected, […]
January 18, 2010
The New Jersey School Boards Association has canceled its annual three-day conference in Atlantic City in October, which is an estimated $7 million hit to the city’s struggling economy, acco rding to Jeffrey Vasser, president of the Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Authority. School Boards Association spokesman Frank Belluscio confirmed Friday that the group has […]
January 18, 2010
I’m a finance guy, so I’ll get right to the point. I want to talk about a dirty word, or at least a word that conjures up negative images in many people’s minds. "Administration." There, I said it. That one word which evokes a vision of bureaucrats squandering hard earned taxpayer money as we speak. […]
January 18, 2010
On Tuesday, New Jersey will submit its application for the U.S. Department of Education’s "Race to the Top" competition. The prize is a huge infusion of federal dollars to fund innovative, transformational changes in how we prepare children for success in college and the workplace. The competition among states for this money will be very […]
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 […]
January 18, 2010
Dedication to Special Education, an all-volunteer parent group, will donate more than $85,000 to Marin classrooms this year through its Grants to Special Educators Program. The money will be used to purchase 20 computers, dozens of software programs designed for children with special needs, 15 portable memory keyboards, listening stations for audio books and more. […]
January 18, 2010
W hat were they thinking? The over the next fcash-strapped Broward School Board turned down the potential for $34 million our years to improve teacher training, better track individual student achievement and help low-performing schools improve. By a 5-4 vote, the board decided Tuesday it would not join most other Florida school districts — including […]