August 11, 2010
The House interrupted its summer recess on Tuesday t o approve $26 billion in aid to school districts and states to prevent large-scale layoffs of teachers and public employees and to engage in another partisan fight over policy priorities. After the vote of 247 to 161 in favor of the legislation, President Obama quickly signed […]
August 11, 2010
Minnesota schools have put the brakes to their slide toward failure, the latest federal testing results show. Figures released Tuesday by the Minnesota Department of Education show that 1,048 schools — 46 percent of the state’s total — did not meet student performance targets set under the contentious federal No Child Left Behind law. That’s […]
August 11, 2010
The House passed legislation Tuesday containing $66 million for Vermont to expand Medicaid and prevent hundreds of teacher layoffs. Lawmakers interrupted their August recess to vote 247-161 for the $26 billion emergency aid measure, which passed the Senate last week. It now goes to President Barack Obama for signing. Tuesday’s vote was largely along party […]
August 11, 2010
Congress completed action on a bill Tuesday that is expected to bring Buffalo Public Schools almost $8 million — not nearly enough to cover the district’s $34 million deficit for the coming school year. Fourteen other local school districts are in line to receive at least $1 million from the bill, with others getting lesser […]
August 11, 2010
U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that an additional $1,072,589,804 is now available for Texas under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. To date, Texas has received $7,439,690,398 through the ARRA. The state recently reported that recovery dollars have been used to provide funding for more than 28,000 education […]
August 11, 2010
Twenty-four Title I school districts and 37 Title I schools in Kansas were identified as “on improvement” for the 2010-2011 school year during the Kansas State Board of Education meeting in Topeka today. While those numbers are up from last year, they represent just 8 percent of all school districts in the state, and just […]
August 10, 2010
For months now, a group of parents has been challenging the adequacy of services offered to students with autism in Redlands Unified School District. They claim the district is breaking the law by not providing proper services for their children, most of whom have a high-functioning form of autism known as Asperger’s syndrome and are […]
August 10, 2010
West Virginia is set to receive $136 million in federal money if the U.S. House approves a fiscal relief bill Tuesday, according to figures from Washington-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The legislation, which passed the Senate last week, would provide $136 million to West Virginia, including $81 million meant for Medicaid and $55 […]
August 10, 2010
Iowa school districts are likely to get about $96 million in federal money that would be used exclusively for salaries for teachers and other school employees, education officials said Monday. Reaction to the proposed education spending hints at a story line that will most likely play out in Iowa congressional politics throughout the fall: Republicans […]
August 10, 2010
Skokie School District 73.5 officials are hardly surprised that their $15.5 million tentative budget projects the district’s first spending deficit since its successful tax hike referendum in 2004. Factors confronting this school district and many others like it fall under the category of "unprecedented" by many educators’ standards. The district is owed a healthy amount […]