May 5, 2011
Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent Gregory Thornton has released his budget proposal for the 2012 school year which will eliminate nearly 1,000 full time teaching and coaching positions, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The budget for next year calls for a 13.5% reduction over this year’s operating costs. To fill the financial gap, it proposes eliminating […]
May 5, 2011
Dayton Public Schools is shuttering its Head Start program and laying off 33 teachers, the Dayton Daily News reports. The 300 kids who are currently participating in the program will either be transitioning to kindergarten, attending another local Head Start school, or enrolling in a Dayton public preschool. According to a national report released last […]
May 5, 2011
TOPEKA | Kansas schools received a little help Wednesday when the state House tentatively agreed to give them access to reserve funds to help cope with funding cuts. The House moved a plan proposed by House Speaker Mike O’Neal that would free up an estimated $358 million that’s locked away in various reserve funds. The […]
May 5, 2011
HARRISBURG — The end of federal stimulus funds and an apparent philosophical shift within the state Department of Education has combined to make this year a difficult one for school districts across Pennsylvania. Now, lawmakers are struggling to understand how funding changes will impact this year’s budget, and educational special interests are wondering how Gov. […]
May 5, 2011
CHICAGO — A retired U.S. Army major and Chicago Public Schools teacher has been honored with the first-ever Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education. The Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs presented Aaron Rucker with the award on Tuesday. The 42-year-old was given the award in a ceremony at Marshall Metropolitan High School on Chicago’s West […]
May 5, 2011
The chief academic officer and interim special education director told the school board Tuesday that the district has far too many special ed students “warehoused” in self-contai ned classrooms where they get too little academic challenge and too little interaction with a full range of classmates. The district needs to take steps, and has begun […]
May 4, 2011
Maryland teacher Michelle Shearer, the newly named 2011 Teacher of the Year, will be honored on Tuesday by President Obama President Obama at the White House along with state winners of the annual contest. She arer is a 14-year teaching veteran who now teaches chemistry at Urbana High School in Frederick and who used to […]
May 4, 2011
The Los Angeles school distric t will hold a shortened day of classes on May 13 to accommodate a planned teachers union protest without interrupting standardized testing on most campuses. Dismissal time will vary from school to school but could be up to several hours earlier than normal. Schools will be required to make up […]
May 4, 2011
Makenna Benson is able to keep it together on most school days, but there are times when her anxiety rises and her temper flares. In those moments — “episodes,” her mother calls them — the 9-year-old from Redwood Falls, Minn., knows to simply walk out of class to find her trusted confidante, mental health practitioner […]
May 4, 2011
House and Senate Republicans plan to unveil legislation Tuesday that would allow states to cut Medicaid enrollment, the latest effort to contain the swelling costs for the health care program for the poor. The bill would lift a law that says states can’t cut Medicaid spending without losing matching money from Washington to run the […]