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
No matter how hard area school superintendents and legislators tried to explain yesterday how the state budget mess could affect their districts, the theme was one of impending doom. It’s hard to soft-pedal a likely $57 million cut from a $308 million budget over two years if you’re Toledo Public Schools Superintendent John Foley. Or […]
December 16, 2009
Property taxes for the Willmar School District will increase about 2 percent in 2010. The School Board adopted a $6.7 million property tax levy Monday evening. The money collected in 2010 will help fund the 2010-11 school year. The school levy represents an increase of $118,000, about 1.8 percent, over the property tax levy paid […]
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. […]