January 13, 2010
A new tuition-based program in the public school district will provide children some of the benefits of a full-day kindergarten without the need to seek often-elusive voter approval, school officials said. The new Kindergarten Enrichment Program, open to students enrolled in the district’s half-day kindergarten, will provide transportation to and from the students’ kindergarten class […]
January 13, 2010
Memphis City Schools will have to wait to get millions of dollars that the City Council said it would give the district for the current year. The council voted 8-3 Tuesday to delay paying the $50 million that it promised the school system until there is a resolut ion to the ongoing litigation over school […]
January 12, 2010
Last Wednesday, school administrators from the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District [PRJUSD] released a draft list of potential budget cuts that could go into effect as soon as next month if approved by the district’s Feb. 1 deadline. Issuing the list of recommended cost-saving measures represented the district’s first step in starting a decision-making […]
January 12, 2010
Five days after releasing a recommended list of cuts to help alleviate a $3.6 million gap in its budget, the Pleasanton school district announced Monday that it could be facing an additional $3.3 million deficit. In an e-mail, the district announced that after its advisers reviewed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s preliminary budget for fiscal year 2010-11 […]
January 12, 2010
After hundreds of hours of deliberation with staff, Superintendent Stephen Mills recently presented what he called a living, breathing thing: His recommendation for cuts in the proposed school budget, including multiple teacher layoffs. At the joint Acton Public Schools and Acton-Boxborough Regional School Committee meeting Jan. 7, Mills detailed 16 faculty and staff members he […]
January 12, 2010
The local school governing board took its next-to-last step Monday night in its process of deciding whether or not to close Daytona Middle School next fall. The Lake Havasu Unified School District governing board listened to student, teacher, and parent comments during a public meeting regarding the possibility. “Your presence here shows you care about […]
January 12, 2010
As few as nine Orange County school districts have committed to implement sweeping reforms championed under President Obama’s federal Race to the Top grant program for schools, leaving up to 19 ineligible to receive the potentially millions of federal stimulus dollars that California is seeking. &l t;p>School districts across the state were required to commit […]
January 12, 2010
Funding cuts and a loss of students is forcing one local school district to make a tough decision. The Athens school district in Calhoun County is looking to close one of its three schools. On Monday night the superintendent made his recommendation on which building should be shut down. Newschannel 3 was at that meeting. […]
January 12, 2010
Up to nine schools in Greeley-Evans School District 6 could be combined and reorganized in an attempt to save as much as $2 million in the face of mounting state funding cuts. District officials are considering a draft plan that would combine most students at Cameron and Jefferson elementary schools into a new, larger elementary […]
January 12, 2010
Livingston County school districts had a rocky year in 2009, with money woes and controversy — fr om administrators being fired to recall campaigns. Some districts had more drama than others, but all had to face tough budget decisions as a result of drastic declines in student enrollment and proposed state funding cuts that many […]