December 2, 2010
Michigan schools finally may be inline to get a slice of the extra federal money set aside for the state thissummer through a distribution plan approved Wednesday by the state Senate. The plan that should soon be headedto Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm would give Michigan’s highest-funded school districts an additional$111 per student this academic year. […]
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 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
Area school district administrators agree that a revamped school funding formula is a step in the right direction. Under State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers’ Fair Funding proposal unveiled Nov. 16, every school district in Fond du Lac and northeast Dodge counties would get a boost in state aid. The plan — which carries […]