January 17, 2011
The 17-year-old boy who came into Cathy Owens’ nursing office at Murrieta Valley High School in Riverside County was gasping for breath. He had no history of health problems. After quickly examining him, Owens’ 35 years of experience kicked in. "He was not able to breathe, and there was no heart rate going," she recalls. […]
January 14, 2011
Against the backdrop of another smothering budget crisis, California Gov. Jerry Brown has quickly moved to put his stamp on the state’s public schools by shaking up the state board of education and entrusting its members with more power. In some of his first moves, the newly elected Democrat eliminated the position of education secretary—an […]
January 14, 2011
Detroit Public Schools emergency financial manager Robert Bobb backed off plans Thursday to lay off special-education bus attendants, one day before the layoffs were supposed to take effect. It came after two busloads of parents and residents went to the State Board of Education meeting this week to complain about special-education problems in DPS. "This […]
January 14, 2011
The state budget shortfall in the next fiscal year is forcing the San Antonio Independent School District to cut back. The district is scrambling for ways to cut $20 million to $40 million dollars and several ideas remain on the table. "This is an extreme budget shortfall that we are hearing about and we expect […]
January 14, 2011
Missouri school districts will get a $7.5 million increase in state funding for transportation beginning this month, state budget officials said Thursday. Gov. Jay Nixon released that portion of the $70 million in transportation funds he withheld from districts last year to help balance the budget. The additional funding is available because state revenues have […]
January 14, 2011
New Jersey’s state Supreme Court assigned a lower-court judge to help sort out whether Gov. Chris Christie was within his constitutional rights last year when he cut aid to local schools by about $1 billion. Pete r Doyne, a Bergen County judge, was given until March 31 to report back to the high court in […]
January 13, 2011
About 200 parents and a dozen children filled the pews in Jersey City’s council chambers last night, wearing yellow shirts saying “Our Kids Are Not Worth Less,” a show of support for a resolution being considered that would demand the state ” create a more equitable formula” for funding urban charter schools. The resolution, which […]
January 13, 2011
Although Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget spares K-12 education from immediate cuts, it does not give districts the money they need to replace mental health funding vetoed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger through June. To make up for costs that were previously paid by Contra Costa County for seriously emotionally disturbed students in residential programs, the […]
January 13, 2011
A bill that would mandate more flexible funding streams for special education cleared a Delaware House committee today, reviving a plan that died in the last session of the General Assembly. House Bill 1, sponsored by Rep. Teresa Schooley, D-Newark, codifies “needs-based” funding for special education in all 19 of the state’s public school districts […]
January 13, 2011
When the city provided a home five years ago for the Ross Global Academy, a charter school founded by the widow of a media executive, its opponents complained about what they considered preferential treatment for a member of the moneyed elite. But last month, the Department of Education announced that the school would be closed […]