December 9, 2010
Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said Wednesday that the district is bracing for the Texas Legislature to cut $4 billion in school funding over the next two years to reduce the state’s multibillion-dollar deficit. In a meeting with members of The Dallas Morning News editorial board, Hinojosa said a reduction that high could cost the […]
December 9, 2010
State Superintendent Tony Evers today announced the formation of an Educator Effectiveness Design Team that will develop recommendations for an evaluation system for teachers and school administrators. Wisconsin is among more than 30 states working on the State Consortium on Educator Effectiveness, led by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). That group’s efforts […]
December 9, 2010
For her first assignment of the school year, Verona Gill, a $100,000-a-year special education teacher whom the city is trying to fire, sat around education offices in Lower Manhattan for two weeks, waiting to be told what to do. For her second assignment, she was sent to a district office in the Bronx and told […]
December 9, 2010
The New York City teachers union argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the nation’s largest school district should not follow through with its plan to disclose evaluation information about roughly 12,000 teachers by name, saying it could do serious harm. The union filed a lawsuit this fall to stop the New York City […]
December 9, 2010
Five districts in the Los Angeles area are weaving a web of interagency supports to catch a group of high school students who face an especially great risk for slipping through the cracks in school: youths in foster care. The Education Pilot Program, a collaboration of school administrators and social workers, academic tutors, and student […]
December 9, 2010
The school district asks parents of special-education students ages 14 to 21 to help it improve postgraduation planning. Informal meetings with parents of special-education students will be 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Center School Conference Room. Parents are invited to offer suggestions about how the district could help students transition from school […]
December 8, 2010
State leaders, trying to dig out of a hole in the current two-year budget before the next one has to be whacked, ordered agencies Tuesday to further curb spending. Agency chiefs were told in a letter that they must reduce expenditures by 2.5 percent in the remaining nine months of the fiscal year. Managers of […]
December 8, 2010
A slump in sales-tax collections and a spike in Medicaid costs is prompting state economists to forecast an even bigger budget shortfall for next year. Filling that $3 billion hole could force state legislators to make deeper spending cuts than they had anticipated. Amy Baker, director of the Legislature’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research, […]
December 8, 2010
A new study has suggested that school-based intervention program designed for adolescents with asthma significantly improves asthma management and quality of life for the students who participate, and reduces asthma morbidity. Researchers in New York City studied the effect of the eight-week program, The Asthma Self-Management for Adolescents, aimed at urban youth and their medical […]
December 8, 2010
Courtesy of President Obama’s economic stimulus package, special-education programs throughout Colorado are reaping a windfall in federal funding. They are enjoying increases in triple-digit percentages, even in districts where enrollment in such programs has fallen by double-digit percentages over the past five years. In the Sheridan School District in Arapahoe County, for example, enrollment in […]