September 23, 2010
A potential lawsuit challenging the state’s school finance formula has prompted discussion over new funding proposals. Kansas House Speaker Pro Tem Arlen Siegfried, R-Olathe, testified in front of the Legislature’s Special Committee on Education and outlined two new proposals that would significantly change the way the state aids local school districts. One proposal moves the […]
September 23, 2010
Illinois legislators will have plenty of school issues clamoring for attention after the November election and school funding is sure to be the huge gorilla sitting in on every debate. Consider just three statistics suggesting that many Illinois’ students won’t be prepared to compete for jobs in a global economy: (1) Only 57 percent of […]
September 23, 2010
The good news when it comes to scores on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment in Allegheny County’s 42 suburban school districts is that an overwhelming number are meeting the federal standard for Adequate Yearly Progress. The bad news is the handful of districts that are struggling face daunting challenges in moving their students toward […]
September 23, 2010
A recent study by Michigan State University says in-school health care has long-term benefits on the attendance and achievement of students. Michigan’s in-school Health Centers have been operating for 20 years and provide primary care to over 100-thousand underserved youth. Michigan has the fourth largest on-site school health care program in the nation. It provides […]
September 23, 2010
The $122 million San Francisco schools spend on its 6,300 special education students fails to consistently address the needs of those children, too often needlessly segregating them in special classrooms and disproportionately diagnosing disabilities based on race, an independent audit found. The auditors called the district’s services outdated and counterproductive to the belief that all […]
September 23, 2010
Facing a shrinking Medicaid budget, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has develop ed a plan to change the way people spend those few remaining dollars. But it may do so by imposing on already-limited Idaho school funds. On Sept. 1, Health and Welfare released a final version of a proposal to change the […]
September 23, 2010
Education Secretary Arne Duncan predicted Wednesday that Texas eventually will get its $830 million share of federal aid to help school districts avert layoffs. But Gov. Rick Perry demanded to see that in writing, "so there are assurances that we don’t see any more games played." Texas has been blocked from its share of a […]
September 22, 2010
Language in the federal education spending bill for fiscal 2011 would raise funding for a key after-school program, but also open the door to using that money to expand the school day and year—a move that has some after-school advocates worried. The spending bill that cleared the Senate Appropriations Committee in late July would increase […]
September 22, 2010
Still smarting from $21 million in state budget cuts to its Missouri programs, the national Parents as Teachers organization is getting a major financial boost in its efforts to promote early childhood education outside the state. The St. Louis-based organization announced Tuesday that it will receive $14.2 million in federal stimulus money through the U.S. […]
September 22, 2010
More special-education students should be moved into general-education classrooms as part of a drastic makeover of special-education programs, a report ordered by the Board of Education recommended. According to the report released Tuesday, the San Francisco Unified School District needs to change the way it serves the nearly 7,000 special-education students in order to help […]