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 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
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 […]
December 14, 2009
The California School Board Association is planning to sue the state because the decreasing amount of educational funding doesn’t match up to the high standards school districts are held to. Redlands Unified School District Board of Education member Pat Kohlmeier mentioned the pending lawsuit during the board’s meeting Dec. 8. Kohlmeier – who serves on […]