January 11, 2011
Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposes less money for kindergarten-through-12th-grade education, and the spending plan could become more dire if voters don’t approve an extension of existing taxes. Brown proposes spending $63.8 billion for K-12 schools next year, down $2.6 billion from this year’s budget, with much of the difference coming from the loss of federal […]
January 11, 2011
Several schools throughout New Hampshire are making New Year’s resolutions to combat childhood obesity and encourage healthy lifestyles for their students. "Some kids don’t even know the names of basic fruits and vegetables. While there are efforts being made to help educate children about making the right food choices, it will take a lot of […]
January 11, 2011
Wood County health officials are dropping nursing services for some local school districts, which now must explore new options for next year. The county Health Department provides a limited amount of nursing services to the Pittsville and Nekoosa public school districts, Assumption Catholic Schools and several Lutheran schools, but that will change because of county […]
January 11, 2011
High school graduation rates increased for both Milwaukee Public Schools students and low-income city children using vouchers to attend private schools in 2008-’09, but voucher students are still more likely to graduate than their public school peers, according to data released Monday. The latest findings add a seventh year of data – for 2008-’09 – […]
January 11, 2011
A Manhattan judge ruled Monday that the city may release performance rankings of thousands of teachers to the public, denying a request by the teachers union to keep the teachers’ names confidential. But the public is unlikely to see the rankings soon. The union, the United Federation of Teachers, said Monday that it would appeal […]
January 11, 2011
For the first time ever, South Dakota schools are looking at state funding cuts, and they may go deeper than first feared. Governor Rounds proposed five percent cuts, but word is circulating that Governor Daugaard may double that. For the state’s largest school district, possible cuts total in the millions. Sioux Falls has more students […]
January 11, 2011
Although cyber bullying is growing in prevalence, new research suggests nearly half of elementary, middle and high school social workers feel ill-equipped to deal with such victimization. A study coauthored by Temple University social work professor Jonathan Singer in this month’s journal Children & Schools describes the issue. & #x0A;“School social workers provide more crisis […]
January 10, 2011
With the Putnam City School District facing a 10 percent funding cut next year, Superintendent Paul Hurst has unveiled to school board members a series of proposals he hopes will save money. During a special school board work session this week, Hurst outlined fo ur proposals aimed at cutting costs. The proposals were made […]
January 10, 2011
Kindergarten classes in the city are the biggest they’ve been in more than a decade – and some parents say their kids are paying the price. There are 7,616 kindergarten students learning in classrooms with more than 25 children, up from 5,414 last year – a 40% increase – according to preliminary Education Department statistics. […]
January 10, 2011
A new report shows that the achievement gap between white students and African American and Latino students in California will take years to narrow – and that boys are falling further behind girls. In 2009 there was a gap of 27 percentage points between fourth-grade white students and African American students, and a gap of […]