March 30, 2011
Lansing — Democratic lawmakers will introduce a constitutional amendment to protect the money earmarked in the state School Aid Fund from being raided to balance the budget, they announced today. Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposed budget would cut $470 per student from schools, while using about $900 million from the School Aid fund to help fund […]
March 30, 2011
Two Pantagraph area schools were recognized Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education as being among the 2010 National Blue Ribbon Schools. Tri-Valley High School in Downs and Prairie Central Upper Elementary School in Forrest are among the 254 public and 50private schools across the nation that will be honored at an awards ceremony Nov. […]
March 30, 2011
The New York City Department of Education made public on Sunday a list that estimates the number of teachers each school will lose to layoffs if the state does not allocate more money for schools and seniority rules are not changed. The layoffs, totaling 4,675 teachers, 6 percent of the active teachers in the system, […]
March 30, 2011
A Republican lawmaker wants to completely overhaul the way schools are funded, but his idea will likely have to wait. The House Education Committee voted Tuesday to hold back HB123 for study over the next year. The bill would remove requirements that schools spend money on specific programs and instead allow districts to use all […]
March 30, 2011
More than 80,000 of the nation’s 100,000 public schools could be labeled as failing under No Child Left Behind, the main federal law on public education, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Congress on Wednesday. Mr. Duncan said the estimate, based on an analysis of testing trends and the workings of the law’s pass-fail school […]
March 30, 2011
WASHINGTON — President Obama called on Monday for an overhaul of education legislation enacted in the Bush administration, telling an audience of teachers and students that Congress should change the No Child Left Behind Act before the start of the next school year. “I want every child in the country to head back to school […]
March 30, 2011
Two lawmakers with a lot of experience and expertise on K-12 issues—U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo.—have teamed up to introduce a bill that seeks to make better sense of the maze of federal and state K-12 regulations and the intersection between the two. State and federal regulations often crisscross in strange […]
March 30, 2011
Services to be expanded in six schools across the city including Tremé, Central City, Mid-City, East Carrollton, N.O. East (Michoud neighborhood) and Algiers School Health Connection (SHC), an affiliated program of the Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI), has received a $4 million grant from The W.K. Kellogg Foundation designed to help increase access to physical […]
March 30, 2011
LINCOLN—Regional superintendents and supporters of regional offices of education, in conjunction with the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools met at the state Capitol Thursday for a news conference to not only make a strong case for why Gov . Quinn should not cut funding for the offices and their elected regional superintendents, but […]
March 30, 2011
In an effort to balance the budget, school districts across Texas have begun sending out legally mandated notices of potential layoffs to teachers and staff. According to chron.com, the notifications are being sent out right now to meet the state law requirement that educators have at least a 45-day notice that they are not guaranteed […]