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 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 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 14, 2009
Comstock Public Schools Superintendent Sandra Standish will not get a pay raise this year. It isn’t because she doesn’t deserve one – Standish received high marks from the board when they revealed their evaluation of her first year at the district’s helm on Nov. 12. Standish made it known at the October meeting that she […]
December 14, 2009
st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Florida legislators say the downward trend in tax revenue will force significant changes to education funding. While relief flooded the Florida State legislature brought on by the Federal stimulus funds in 2009, legislators soon realized that this was but a "band-aid" on a much deeper wound. Overall, trends in school funding […]