May 19, 2011
Lansing — A framework is in place for a budget agreement that would reduce to about $100 per student the $300 per student cut for K-12 education Gov. Ric k Snyder recommended in his February budget, an official said today. Ari Adler, a spokesman for House Speaker Jase Bolger, said details need to be worked […]
May 19, 2011
The choice of classes is smaller these days at Lake Howell High School, the wait for a guidance counselor longer and the campus shabbier, with its once blue floor tiles worn to a dull gray. Like other Seminole County schools, Lake Howell still prides itself on solid academ ics. But the state budget cuts that […]
May 19, 2011
Parents of Jefferson County students are digesting what it will mean to fork over $100 next year for kids to ride the bus to neighborhood schools or $150 to get to option schools. Facing a shrinking budget, the Board of Education will charge a transportation fee. The plan was made official in a 4-1 vote […]
May 19, 2011
Fourteen successful suburban teenagers found their ideal spring break getaway in a decrepit school with creaky floors, uncooled hallways and classroom air-conditioning units blasting over teachers’ voices. Harriet T ubman Charter School in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans was not situated on a sunny beach, and the kids there were not in party mode. […]
May 19, 2011
James Williams recently visited Central Elementary School in Ferguson. He brought in a couple of old spelling textbooks that he used when he was a student in 1940. “I found them at home and thought they’d like to have them,” Williams, 82, said. “I know they’ve got their anniversary going on. I’m glad to see […]
May 18, 2011
House Republicans set the stage early Wednesday for what will likely be a heated fight with the governor over education funding and policy when they approved a $14 billion K-12 budget that faces a probable veto. The GOP majority in the House passed the policy-heavy K-12 budget bill early Wednesday morning, allocating about 40 percent […]
May 18, 2011
Here are five facts that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner offered in a speech in New York Tuesday as “context for the [fiscal] choices we must make now to preserve room for important investments in our future.” • In the U.S. today , 40% of children born each year are co vered by Medicaid. If you […]
May 18, 2011
Although Gov. Jerry Brown promised to maintain voter-approved education funding levels in his revised May budget, some education officials say uncertainties about tax extensions could force them to make cuts. “I’m actually shocked,” Gary Eberhart, president of the Mt. Diablo school board, said Tuesday. “It’s terrible news.”&l t;br>The extra $3 billion the governor promised to […]
May 18, 2011
In a 4-3 vote, the Georgia Supreme Court has rejected the legality of the state commission that authorized charter schools and allocated education funding over the objections of local school boards. In the majority opinion, the justices pointed out that the state constitution charges local school boards with managing general K-12 education; therefore, no other […]
May 18, 2011
AUSTIN — House and Senate budget negotiators said they made significant progress Monday, tentatively agreeing on big chunks of the two-year state spending plan, including Medicaid and prisons. But education is still the big sticking point, and chief Senate budget writer Sen. Steve Ogden suggested that lawmakers may have to go into overtime to resolve […]