January 5, 2011
Missouri schools are due a nearly $255 million state funding increase next year. But they’re unlikely to get it. Budget documents reviewed Tuesday by The Associated Press show public schools would need about an 8 percent funding increase to provide the full amount called for by a state law that distributes basic aid to Missouri’s […]
January 5, 2011
Local charter schools will receive more money to educate disabled students and more freedom from the Los Angeles Unified School District in the process, under an agreement approved Tuesday by the Board of Education. The board unanimously approved the pact, which will cost the cash-strapped school system millions of dollars because the district will now […]
January 5, 2011
The Florida Department of Education (DOE) today announced that 11 school districts have been approved to begin receiving local Race to the T op funding. Grant award notices totaling more than $25 million were sent to the approved districts indicating the amount of funding each district has been awarded, schedules for accessing the funds and […]
January 5, 2011
As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools. A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation […]
January 5, 2011
A former science and world history teach was sworn in as the 27th state superintendent of public instruction Monday at the high school where he once taught. Tom Torlakson, who is taking the post most recently held by Jack O’Connell, took his oath of office in a ceremony attended by educators, students and family members […]
January 4, 2011
The high school graduation rate is up in Utah — up to about 90 percent for last school year, according to the state Office of Education. But it could drop significantly for this school year, when Utah will be required to change the way it calculates graduation rates. About 90 percent of the Class of […]
January 4, 2011
The anti-bullying policy deadline for state public schools and districts is up. In just under a year, nearly 99% of Massachusetts public school districts have pulled-off filing their anti-bullying policies on-time. This is quite the turn-around from nearly-two weeks ago, when, according to the Boston Globe, only 60% had met the mandate. 390 state schools […]
January 4, 2011
Former Hearst Magazines chairwoman Cathie Black started work Monday as chancellor of the nation’s largest public school system, vowing to put the "pedal to the metal" as she visited schools in each of New York City’s five boroughs. "For me, this is a dream. It’s a dream job, a dream opportunity, a chance to make […]
January 4, 2011
For the second time in two years, Detroit Public Schools plans to lay off school bus attendants who help special education and disabled students. Keith January, president of the AFSCME Local 345, which represents the bus attendants, said layoff notices were mailed out Monday to 88 of 175 bus attendants. The layoffs will be effective […]
January 4, 2011
Detroit Public Schools will spend $49 million in federal money to push technology in the district, including distributing 40,000 new laptop computers to students in grades 6-12 for use in class, as well as more than 5,000 new desktop computers. Each DPS teacher also will get a laptop. The computers are being funded by stimulus […]