January 5, 2010
San Diego City College students yesterday staged a rally in downtown San Diego to protest the statewide erosion in higher education funding. The afternoon event drew more than 75 students, according to organizers. It followed a morning sit-in at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Front Street office. Larissa Dorman, a spokeswoman for the group, said about 10 […]
January 5, 2010
State budget cuts that could prohibit new bus purchases in the near future have Cape Henlopen School District officials trying to figure out how to make bus routes more efficient. But the move could force students to start their day earlier, officials said. According to Board of Education member Gary Wray, classes at the high […]
January 5, 2010
The Redlands Unified School District still isn’t sure what 2010 will hold in store, but the district is prepared for the worst. The district has been forced to cut $16.2 million since the 2007-2008 school year as the state continues to slash education funding. Having made the "easier" cuts in the last three school years, […]
January 5, 2010
When the family budget started feeling the recession’s pinch last year, Angela Allyn and her photographer husband, Matt Dinnerstein, pulled their three kids out of Chicago-area private schools and enrolled them in Evanston, Ill., public schools. It has been a challenging transition: Maya, 16, now a high school sophomore, "doesn’t like crowds — and her […]
January 5, 2010
The state has just two weeks to finish work on a proposal that will determine whether it gets $700 million in education funding from Washington, D.C. And what Albany says about charter schools will play a big part. The Obama administration says the money will go only to states who follow their guidelines, including not […]
January 4, 2010
As co-founder and retired former commandant of the Delaware Military Academy, I want to call attention to an opportunity existing for Delaware to right an earlier wrong. In the process, the state can demonstrate its support of charter school education initiatives, while at the same time improving its chances for "Race to the Top" funding. […]
January 4, 2010
New York state’s cash resources will drop to an all-time low on Wednesday after the state makes $3.5 billion in payments. The state began today with $3.2 billion in available cash. But $3.5 billion of bills scheduled to be paid today will wipe out that balance. "New York state is barely scraping by," said state […]
January 4, 2010
Rep. Dennis Rehberg, R-Mont. (at large), issued the following news release: Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, has cosponsored legislation to preserve the Impact Aid program in its current, successful form. The Fair Funding for Schools Act of 2009 (H.R. 2280) maintains the funding mechanisms that benefit Montana’s federally impacted schools. The bill also protects Montana’s schools […]
January 4, 2010
Pomona Unified School District is preparing to cut $36 million from the 2010-2011 academic year budget that will result in th e loss or reduction of various programs and services. Members of the Pomona Youth and Family Master Plan Community Board said late last week with such deep cuts on the horizon the entire city […]
January 4, 2010
The Manitowoc School District will support Wisconsin’s application for the federal Race to the Top program, said district Superintendent Mark Swanson, despite administrators’ desire to get more details about what the program would require. The one-time program will split $4.35 billion among states with "ambitious, yet achievable" plans for education reforms, according to the U.S. […]