February 2, 2011
Northwest Ohio’s largest school district plans to close several buildings and cut up to 350 positions. Toledo Public Schools officials say their reorganization being announced Tuesday includes shutting down the district’s middle schools and creating K-8 schools. They also want to cut employee salaries. Board of Education President Bob Vasquez tells The Blade that the […]
February 2, 2011
State lawmakers are taking a second stab at legislation that would overhaul the way Florida’s teachers are evaluated and paid. State Sen. Stephen Wise, a Jacksonville Republican and chairman of the Senate pre-K education committee, filed a bill this week that would base a portion of teacher evaluations on student test scores. Those evaluations would […]
February 2, 2011
After six hours of public testimony, the Panel for Educational Policy voted early on Wednesday to close 10 city high schools and open a new charter school in the heart of the Upper West Side. The panel’s 13 members were deeply divided, and their decisions came after heated debate, punctuated by catcalls and jeers from […]
February 2, 2011
South Dakota lawmakers grappling with possible deep cuts to education funding on Tuesday rejected the latest idea aimed at saving money and softening the blow for cash-strapped schools, which say they’re facing cutbacks and layoffs. The State Senate Education Committee voted 5-2 to cut payments to small schools that enroll students from outside their districts. […]
February 1, 2011
The National Alliance for Medicaid in Education (NAME) hosted a national conference call to review the results of the NAME 2009 Biennial Survey Trends and Data. The survey collects data to identify trends in school-based Medicaid direct service billing and administrative claiming. There were close to 100 participants in the conference call held on January […]
February 1, 2011
Federal education officials are warning schools across the nation not to use stall tactics when it comes to evaluating children who may have a disability. In a letter sent to state directors of special education late last month, Melody Musgrove who heads the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs said she is aware […]
February 1, 2011
Republicans said Monday that they hope to revamp the school funding formula that determines how the state doles out education dollars. Sen. Fran Millar, R-Dunwoody, the chairman of the Senate Education and Youth Committee, said the state has not made large-scale changes to the formula in decades, and the laws need to reflect significant changes […]
February 1, 2011
Wyoming school districts would have to get special permission to bypass state recommendations for class sizes under a bill approved by the state House. The bill passed by the House Monday updates the state’s $1.2 billion annual school funding model. The state Senate will consider House Bill 127 next. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports that […]
February 1, 2011
Seizing on a national anxiety over poor student performance, many governors are taking aim at a bedrock tradition of public schools: teacher tenure. The momentum began over a year ago with President Obama’s call to measure and reward effective teaching, a challenge he repeated in last week’s State of the Union address. Now several Republican […]
February 1, 2011
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) announced today that 834 schools made the Illinois Honor Roll for their continued academic progress. The 2010 honor roll includes 71 schools that are being recognized for the seventh or eighth consecutive years. All of these outstanding schools are being honored for their […]