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 3, 2011
Connecticut’s formula to determine state aid for local schools could be on the verge of a major overhaul after decades of criticism that it hasn’t helped close achievement gaps between poor and rich towns. A coalition of lawmakers and education advocates is urging incoming Gov. Dan Malloy to settle a 2005 lawsuit against the state […]
January 3, 2011
More than 70 middle-class schools in San Diego could each lose an average of $92,000 from their shrinking budgets under a plan approved by the school board last month that will take federal money away from them. The shift would take place over five years, gradually sending more money to the district’s 74 poorest schools. […]
January 3, 2011
The U.S. Department of Education persisted in giving Wyoming more than $17 million this fall for a program intended to avert teacher layoffs even after Gov. Dave Freudenthal told the federal agency the energy-rich state didn’t need the money. Although rebuffed by Freudenthal, the U.S. Department of Education then pledged the money straight to the […]
January 3, 2011
Gov.-elect Rick Scott wants Florida parents in the driver’s seat when it comes to their children’s education, and he’s considering a number of ways to put them there despite questions and criticism from school leaders. Scott’s plans might include allowing parents to choose which schools their kids attend, regardless of attendance zones or county lines. […]
January 3, 2011
Cordley Elementary School used to have up to a dozen volunteers helping students with reading, writing and math, but now parents do clerical work to help make up for staff cuts. The reductions were one effect of Kansas’ budget problems. With less state aid, Lawrence schools have been forced to cut nearly $8 million in […]
January 3, 2011
As the number of online Advanced Placement courses rises, more students are accessing those college-level classes than ever before. But teachers, students, and the governing body that authorizes such courses have had to adapt over time to determine how materials should be presented online and whether that method measures up to face-to-face ins truction. High […]
January 3, 2011
Several thousand children will become eligible for insurance coverage of their autism therapies as a Missouri law takes effect Saturday. For thousands of others, their parents will continue to have to pay out of pocket or simply forgo the costly treatments. Missouri’s autism insurance mandate is among the most prominent new laws of the new […]
December 30, 2010
A group of Amherst-area officials and residents have launched an effort to ask the state to reconsider the manner in which charter schools are funded, in an attempt to limit the money towns lose when student choose to attend those institutions. The organizers of the campaign intend to write a warrant article that would be […]