December 3, 2010
Let’s make a deal! The city of Memphis and Memphis City Schools are reportedly working toget her on a settlement for school funding. The negotiations are over the $55 million that a court ordered the city to pay MCS in back funding last month. The funds were withheld by the city in 2008. Now, both […]
December 3, 2010
Incoming Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday named 18 members of his transition team on education, and one name jumps off the page: Michelle Rhee. Rhee, the hard-charging former chancellor of the District of Columbia school system, was selected by the Republican governor-in-waiting to join a transition team that Scott says will help him "find […]
December 3, 2010
More children would eat lunches and din ners at school under legislation passed Thursday by the House and sent to the president, part of first lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to end childhood hunger and fight childhood obesity. The $4.5 billion bill approved by the House 264-157 would also try to cut down on greasy foods […]
December 3, 2010
For years, this city had one of the worst school systems in the country. Fewer than half its students graduated, enrollment had fallen precipitously and proficiency levels were far below the national average. In 2007, the school board hired Andres Alonso, a Cuban immigrant with a Harvard degree an d strong views on how to […]
December 3, 2010
Four dozen groups will vie for control of 10 new campuses and three existing schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The applications, which were due Wednesday, are part of a reform strategy under which groups inside and outside the nation’s second-largest school system compete to run new schools and persistently low-performing schools that […]
December 3, 2010
North Carolina schools hoping for a respite after enduring tough budget years are instead confronted with the possibility that 2011 may turn out to be even harder. State spending on public schools is heading for a third straight year of cuts, but next year also includes the expiration of federal stimulus dollars that have helped […]
December 3, 2010
Gov.-elect Brian Sandoval is building a budget that assumes a 10 percent cutto state agencies, $175 million reduced from higher education, the extension offurloughs for state workers and rosier-than-expected projections for statespending on unemployment insurance and Medicaid. & lt;p>That still leaves the state about $1.2 billion short of having a balancedbudget, after Wednesday’s projections of […]
December 2, 2010
Indiana lawmakers likely will cut some Medicaid-provided servicesin the upcoming legislative session after learning Wednesday that the state’sshare of government health insurance program costs will balloon by $1.1 billionover the next two years unless checked. The federal government pays about two-thirds of Indiana’s Medicaid costs, buthuman services chief Michael Gargano told the State Budget Committee […]
December 2, 2010
On Thursday morning, state lawmakers and the Richardson Administration willunveil the latest consensus revenue forecast – the product of compromisebetween legislative and executive branch economists – that will show how bigthe state’s projected deficit is and how much lawmakers will have to cut statespending. Some lawmakers worry that Governor-elect Susana Martinez has already takentoo much […]
December 2, 2010
With plenty of public school systemsseeing jumps in health insurance premiums, the Jackson School District may becounting its savings. The Jackson School Board recentlyapproved a health insurance renewal contract with carrier Anthem Blue CrossBlue Shield for 2011. The district’s premiums will rise 5 percent, which islower than the projected 10 percent increase for the Cape […]