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
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 […]
January 4, 2011
Get acquainted with a phrase that will be oft-repeated in the upcoming 82nd Legislature’s brawls over public education: unfunded mandate. And there will be brawls. As lawmakers come under pressure to help schools cope with the reduced funding that the budget shortfall will surely bring, they will look to relax state regulations that create costs […]
January 4, 2011
An Illinois Senate committee is hearing differing opinions on how to reform public education. Education reform groups called for tying teacher pay to student performance, making it easier to dismiss poor teachers and reducing the number of teachers’ strikes in four hours of hearings Monday. School management groups such as the Illinois State Board of […]
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 […]