April 6, 2011
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Tuesday was a deciding day for Boards of Education across the bi-state region, many of which asked voters to sign off on school funds as both states cut back on funding for education. In St. Louis County, Hancock Place and Jennings both passed propositions allowing their respective boards to issue bonds […]
April 6, 2011
Medicaid cuts, school funding and Gov. John Kasich’s attempt to broaden his privatization powers are among the issues raising questions for House Republicans, who met in private last night to discuss the budget at length for the first time. Earlier on the Statehouse lawn, a few hundred people protested Kasich’s proposed budget cuts to schools, […]
April 6, 2011
House GOP Budget chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin unveiled a budget today that would reduce the deficit by $4.4 trillion over ten years by repealing the Democrat’s health care bill, reforming entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid and making cuts to defense that were endorsed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. It also imposes hard spending caps […]
April 6, 2011
LOS ANGELES, CA — When Governor Jerry Brown recently released the proposed budget for the State of California fiscal year beginning July 01, 2011, and slashed $750 million from Special Education programs, it was certain that someone was going to lose. The 20% cut in funding from the previous fiscal year budget meant that many […]
April 5, 2011
The budget crisis in California is not just affecting teachers currently in the classroom. It has now spread to those looking to become teachers in the future. The Los Angeles Times reports that teacher training programs throughout the state have reported drop-offs in students seeking teaching credentials, a trend partially due to the current uncertainties […]
April 5, 2011
Faced with the possibility of running out of money next year, Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Linda Lane on Monday announced new belt-tightening policies and the creation of an internal team that will examine all spending in the district. “We are at a point where more dramatic changes must be made in very short order,” said […]
April 5, 2011
When New Jersey leaders sought to rewrite the state constitution in 1873, the hot topic was how to fund the public schools. The state Senate settled a year later on a constitutional requirement that New Jersey maintain a “thorough and efficient system of education.” Some 137 years later, state officials are still arguing about school […]
April 4, 2011
The interview questions scribbled in the block-letter penmanship of an elementary school student were both profound and typical for a 7-year-old seeking input into the hiring of a second-grade teac her. The first question: “Have you taught people with disabilities like me before?’’ The second: “Will we do math in second grade?’’ And the third: […]
April 4, 2011
Health services in Fairfax County schools may be sacrificed to pay for full-day kindergarten at each of the county’s elementary schools. “Full-day K” has become something of a Holy Grail in Fairfax, where 25 percent of schools still maintain a half-day kindergarten schedule, meaning less time learning and more dollars spent on out-of-school child care. […]
April 4, 2011
York, PA – About two years ago, a group of York community leaders visited New York’s Harlem Children’s Zone. The project, founded by education reform advocate Geoffrey Canada, aims to guide children who live in certain blocks from birth through college, providing them not only an education but other services they need, whether that’s housing, […]