January 4, 2010
As the post-holiday grind begins today, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and state lawmakers see a glimmer of hope beyond Michigan’s economic maelstrom. < ;/p> The state budget is balanced and won’t need emergency amputation this month, state economists said. Still, the new year is bringing more challenges for public school and state finances. The state faces […]
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. […]
January 4, 2010
The events shaping 2009 gave Ames Community School District a first-hand tutorial in its own mission: to prepare (students) for a changing society. As state revenue shrank, a late result of the nationwide economic downturn that began in 2008, education was not spared from budget cuts. School districts remained on the hook for meeting state […]
January 4, 2010
Oak Park and Hazel Park school districts are among at least four Oakland County school districts that must follow a state-approved plan to eliminate millions of dollars of deficits in their budgets. In the northern part of Oakland County, Pontiac and Avondale school districts are on the same list. That means they, too, have to […]
January 4, 2010
The number of students in Texas public schools from low-income families is increasing, according to a state report that also shows a rise in the number of minority students. The report from the Texas Education Agency said the state is experiencing an enrollment boom in public schools, growing 20 percent over a decade to 4.7 […]
January 4, 2010
The biggest issue Colorado lawmakers will wrestle with as soon as the 2010 session opens this month will be the state budget, and few of them are looking forward to it. Because of an expected $1 billion revenue shortfall, which comes on top of $2 billion in cuts lawmakers already made, lawmakers will consider trimming […]