December 17, 2009
ALBANY — A coalition of teachers’ unions and local school officials mounted a legal battle on Wednesday against Gov. David A. Paterson, arguing that his decision to unilaterally A coalition of teachers’ unions and local school officials mounted a legal battle on Wednesday against Gov. David A. Paterson violated New York’s Constitution. The educators asserted […]
December 17, 2009
Pennsylvania for too long has stacked the deck against taxpayers in Columbia, Lancaster and other high-poverty communities where schools are challenged by greater than average numbers of students w ho require special education. Every year since 1991, the Pennsylvania Legislature has treated all of the state’s school districts the same, funding each as if 16 […]
December 16, 2009
Montgomery County’s delegation in Annapolis will introduce a bill to the General Assembly to exempt the county’s mandatory education funding for the current fiscal year, Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. said Monday. Under the so-called maintenance of effort law, local governments are required to fund their school systems at the same level as the previous […]
December 16, 2009
It was the question on the lips of many New York politicians on Tuesday, but Gov. David A. Paterson may have phrased it best: “Who wants to take MetroCards away from kids?” Joy Simmons, mother of three, expressed her outrage over proposed cuts at a protest at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority headquarters. Behind her is […]
December 16, 2009
To education reformers, a $4.3 billion school funding compet ition from the Obama administration seemed like just the push California needed to start making long overdue changes to restore academic luster to the state’s public schools. But the drive to dramatically turn around a faltering system that serves more than 6 million children has run […]
December 16, 2009
Faced with more grim fiscal news, Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday he is ordering across-the-board cuts to school corporations’ budgets – a measure that he said comes as a “last resort” to ensure the state can pay its bills. To heed Daniels’ demand for reductions of at least $300 million in K-12 spending over the […]
December 16, 2009
The annual audit report was released at the Iron County School Board meeting Tuesday revealing a successful year for the school district despite budget cuts and a poor economy. Todd Hess, a representative of Hinton and Burdick auditing firm, told school board members about the highlights of his findings. In response to management of the […]
December 16, 2009
Governor Bill Ritter last week proposed a six percent reduction in Colorado public school funding — $260 million state-wide. With Colorado already hovering around 48th in the nation for education funding, schools will be hard hit. David Crews, Norwood Public Schools superintendent, is counting on local money from mill levies to help his school through. […]
December 16, 2009
County and school district program administrators are preparing to do without state aid for the time being in the wake of Gov. David A. Paterson’s announcement Monday that $750 million in aid to school districts and local governments would be withheld in order to maintain the solvency of the State. Paterson directed the Division of […]
December 16, 2009
A difficult financial future lies ahead for the Lompoc Unified School District, but despite the dreary outlook, the district can expect to pay its bills through 2011, according to a state-mandated “first interim report” presented Tuesday night. After the fiscal report by Assistant Superintendent Sheldon Smith, the board agreed to submit a positive certification to […]