March 30, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky House overwhelmingly passed a bill Monday afternoon to resolve the state’s Medicaid shortfall without cutting state funding for education. But it may not be popular with either Senate President David Williams or Gov. Steve Beshear, House Speaker Greg Stumbo admitted. House Bill 1, the product of a week of negotiations […]
March 30, 2011
HARTFORD—Scores of students in yellow T-shirts proclaiming "Fund Me Fairly" came to the state Capitol complex Thursday afternoon to press for an education funding bill that would send more money to some magnet and charter schools. The controversial measure, dubbed "money follows the child," was the subject of a lengthy public hearing before the legislature’s […]
March 30, 2011
The test scores aren’t in yet, but by almost every other measure that matters—school climate, instructional strategies, staff satisfaction—the former Shawnee High School isn’t the same place it was just a year ago. More than half the teachers are new to the persistently low-performing school. Those who remain say they no longer feel that their […]
March 30, 2011
For years, it has cost more to educate the area’s children than the state steered to local schools, a gap that’s expected to widen as Gov. Rick Snyder calls for cuts to K-12 funding to cover the exhaustion of federal stimulus funds and other shortfalls in Lansing. Th e 21 school districts in the Enquirer’s […]
March 30, 2011
The centerpiece of Idaho’s controversial school reform plan may be dead, senators indicated late Tuesday, even as separate bills on teacher contracts and pay move through hearings in the House. The main bill, SB 1113, was sent back to the Senate Education Committee last week after earlier squeaking through it on a 5-4 vote; on […]
March 30, 2011
MILFORD, Ohio — Scott Mueller seemed to have an uncanny sense about what his students should study to prepare for upcoming state skills tests. By 2010, the teacher had spent his 16-year career entirely at Charles Seipelt Elementary School. Like other Seipelt teachers, Mueller regularly wrote study guides for his classes ahead of state tests. […]
March 30, 2011
PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to measures that will reduce the size of budget cuts for school districts and some health care facilities. Gov. Dennis Daugaard is seeking to cut nearly every state agency by 10 percent next year to fix a $127 million budget gap. His proposal includes cutting […]
March 30, 2011
Across the Chicago area, students from different grades increasingly mingle as they learn to spell, write and study history. While they do not share a grade, they share a teacher, a classroom and even a lunch table in a tradition that’s as old as the one-room schoolhouse: blending students from multiple grades into a single […]
March 30, 2011
Despite tight budgets that led to teacher layoffs and classroom cuts, fewer school districts landed on the state’s financial watch list this year, according to a report released Wednesday. Two dozen school systems — or 2.8 percent of the state’s 868 districts — received the worst financial designation in the annual snapshot of districts’ financial […]
March 30, 2011
For Washington suburbanites who think their local high school is straining from the weight of Advanced Placement courses and other academic demands, you haven’t seen anything yet. On Tuesday, go to the hearing at Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School in the District at 8:40 p.m. and learn about a proposed new charter school called […]