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 […]
December 2, 2010
The group representing Montanaschool districts say Go v. Brian Schweitzer’s fundingplan for schools comes close to meeting their hopes for the next two years –but that his proposed transfer of oil-and-gas revenues to finance the plan is"unacceptable." They also note that while Schweitzercalls his funding proposal a sizeable increase in state money for schools, itactually […]
December 1, 2010
The Illinois Association of School Boards wants the Illinois General Assembly to tell its member school boards how much money they can expect from the state. And it wants legislators to tell those boards before they set their budgets for the next school year. The proposal, which passed unanimously and without debate, was one of […]
December 1, 2010
Indiana school districts can challenge the way the state distributes funds for public education, a Hamilton County judge said Monday. Hamilton Superior Court Judge Steven Nation’s ruling allows a lawsuit over the school funding formula filed by the Hamilton Southeastern (Hamilton County), Franklin Township (Marion County) and Middlebury (Elkhart County) school districts to go forward. […]
December 1, 2010
Financially struggling charter schools have secured a commitment for low-interest loans as part of a wide-ranging pact with the Los Angeles school system. The agreement, approved Tuesday by the Board of Education, also sets up a fledgling though uneasy political alliance to raise new funds. Under it, charter schools and the Los Angeles Unified School […]
December 1, 2010
Louisiana’s state school board is gearing up for a debate next week over a set of proposed life-science textbooks, amid complaints that they don’t provide information questioning the theory of evolution. But defenders of the texts say the criticism of evolution’s treatment is misguided and appears to be part of a thinly veiled agenda to […]
December 1, 2010
While state budgets have improved slightly over the past year, more than a dozen states so far have made mid-year cuts to K-12 education, and the fiscal outlook going forward remains grim, according to a national report released today. On the whole, financial conditions in fiscal year 2011 have gotten modestly better compared to the […]
December 1, 2010
Slightly more than half of Florida’s 67 school districts could face fines for violating state class size limits, the education commissioner said Tuesday. Eric Smith notified 35 districts and three laboratory schools that they were out of compliance. Statewide, 44,556 of 812,483 traditional public classrooms, or 5.5 percent, had too many students. Also, 44 of […]
December 1, 2010
More than a thousand Los Angeles Unified School District employees — including those who staff school offices, run libraries and maintain campuses — will be without jobs Wednesday amid the latest round of budget reductions this year in the nation’s second-largest school district. Thousands of others will be shifted to new workplaces, with some taking […]
November 30, 2010
For the first time in more than 20 years, Minnesota will require a new licensure exam for aspiring K-12 teachers. It comes as the state is adding more requirements to get a teaching license — including student teachers videotaping a classroom lesson — and as teachers are being held more accountable for student learning. Educators […]