March 30, 2011
The California Department of Education is moving ahead in its efforts to compete for part of $4.35 billion in federal education funds, the single largest pool of discretionary funding set aside for education reform in U.S. history, state education officials said Monday. School districts and local education agencies across the state were asked to voluntarily […]
March 30, 2011
President Barack Obama yesterday announced more than $250 million in private investments to help attract and prepare new teachers for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, collectively known as the “STEM” field, and to help improve instruction in those areas by practicing teachers. The new commitments roughly double the amount the president first announced in November […]
March 30, 2011
President Obama created a grant program to copy his block-by-block approach to ending poverty. The British government praised his charter schools as a model. And a new documentary opening across the country revolves around him: Geoffrey Canada, the magnetic Harlem Children’s Zone leader with strong ideas about how American education should be fixed. Last week, […]
March 30, 2011
Just as school districts had feared, Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget proposal would slash local school funding by hundreds of millions of dollars and prevent them from making it up with higher property taxes. Walker’s budget cuts state school aid by $834 million over the next biennium, a 7.9 percent decrease. That accounts for about […]
March 30, 2011
"What is ‘blaring?’" Emilio Sanchez asks his class of fourth graders during a reading lesson at Vaughn Next Century Learning Center. The children make a sound like a car horn and later discuss many other words they’re about to encounter. Students, and their teachers, have more time to work on such exercises because the San […]
March 30, 2011
SCHENECTADY — The teachers union is consideri ng concessions as part of its contract negotiations to avoid massive layoffs that could be part of the city district’s 2011-12 budget. Interim Superintendent John Yagelski is not disclosing budget details until Wednesday, when a draft plan will be presented to the Board of Education. State aid cuts […]
March 30, 2011
When the federal economic stimulus money was allotted two years ago, there was both excitement about getting millions of dollars for Pennsylvania and fear of falling off the funding cliff when the money runs out in September. In presenting his proposal for the 2011-12 budget last week, Gov. Tom Corbett gave his view of what […]
March 30, 2011
SAN BRUNO — The California Teachers Association is reporting that school districts so far have issued nearly 19,000 layoff notices to teachers amid uncertainty over the state budget. The union announced its estimate of preliminary pink slips issued statewide as of Tuesday, the deadline for school districts to let employees know they could lose their […]
March 30, 2011
Two years ago, with his team building and his wheels spinning toward a run f or governor, John Kasich told Ashtabula Republicans "we need to break the backs of organized labor in the schools." Now that Kasich is Ohio’s governor, the state’s public-school teachers are indeed beginning to feel a pinch. From tapping teachers’ wallets […]
March 30, 2011
COLUMBUS — More than a week after Gov. John Kasich presented his $55.5 billion budget, his budget director Thursday spelled out how the administration would close a projected gap that it now says is closer to $7.7 billion. Mr. Kasich’s proposed two-year spending plan would rein in Medicaid spending for the poor, disabled, and infirm […]