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 […]
December 15, 2009
The Memphis City Council is set to vote on school funding today, revisiting a thorny issue that inspired a lawsuit by Memphis City Schools and an appeal by the city. In mid-October, a three-judge panel of the Tennessee Court of Appeals heard the city’s appeal of a February ruling by Chancellor Kenny Armstrong, who ordered […]
December 15, 2009
The following information was released by the National Conference of State Legislatures: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan commended legislators for being the glue and institutional memory that helps keep public schools and public universities running. But he challenged lawmakers to examine their own education legislation to see where there is room for improvement and reform. […]
December 15, 2009
The state school board’s Regional Education Service Agency Committee talked earlier this week about asking the Legislature to remove the funding cap placed on RESAs six years ago. Now the board is just hoping to keep the existing spending model in place. At Wednesday’s meeting, board members unanimously voted to remove a request to lift […]
December 15, 2009
Congress last week approved a fiscal year 2010 spending measure that would provide level funding for key education programs, even as lawmakers and the Obama administration weighed the prospect of a jobs package that could include new education aid for cash-strapped states and localities. A House-Senate conference committee Dec. 8 agreed to a bill that […]
December 14, 2009
For 15 years, the formula used to calculate the yearly boost in per-pupil funding in South Dakota has hummed along on a sort of autopilot. While critics of the formula have argued that it never has generated enough money for K-12 education in the state, it has served at least as a proven, reliable source […]
December 14, 2009
To education reformers, a $4.3 billion school funding competition 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 into […]