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 […]
January 12, 2010
Educators tend to think in terms of school years rather than calendar years, but as 2010 dawns most expect 12 months of challenges greater than they’ve faced in a while. Things already were getting bad in 2009 when the state warned school districts not to budget $110 million in school funding because it probably would […]
January 12, 2010
Bentonville superintendent Gary Compton and Robert Maranto of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas recently wrote in this newspaper that to make Arkansas public schools great three things were necessary: a larger and better pool of teachers, less red tape and paperwork, and a better system of special education. Concerning the […]
January 12, 2010
In Anson County, North Carolina, one of the most economically challenged areas of the state where the nearest town of any size is at east an hour away, 66 very young children with special needs are receiving free developmental intervention services at the Anson Children’s Center, the only five-star Community Based Rehabilitative Services (CBRS) Center […]
January 12, 2010
Lake-view-Fort Oglethorpe High School senior Tyler Furr will graduate this year thanks to a special education program that is stable, flexible and staffed with people who understand him, said his mother. "He’s taken the same standardized state tests that every other student in Catoosa County has taken," Tonya Furr said. "He’s on a level playing […]
January 12, 2010
Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday urged Arizona legislators to show courage in tackling the state’s budget crisis by taking steps that include shrinking public services and raising revenue. "Our state is still waiting for us to conduct some very difficult business," said Brewer, a Republican making her first State of the State address after taking […]