July 21, 2010
Less than two months after the nation’s governors and state school chiefs released their final recommendations for national education standards, 27 states have adopted them and about a dozen more are expected to do so in the next two weeks. Their support has surprised many in education circles, given states’ long tradition of insisting on […]
July 21, 2010
Nurses searching for a job may start looking somewhere besides hospitals, and that could benefit your children. In all of the Calhoun County school districts, there are only two schools with full-time nurses, but that’s about to change. Statewide the school nursing shortage is sobering. “In the State of Michigan we have roughly one nurse […]
July 20, 2010
Furlough days for teachers and administrators have been reduced in a move the Fort Mill School Board put in place last week. “The board approved the use of the state teacher supply fund to reduce teacher furlough days from three to two next year,” Leanne Lordo, assistant superintendent of finance and operations, said. The administration […]
July 20, 2010
Federal health officials have approved a measure that will allow Kansas school districts to continue to get reimbursed for services delivered to special education students. Kansas Health Policy Authority officials announced Monday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, has agreed to a cost settlement that allows for the payment of attendant care […]
July 20, 2010
The Georgia Charter Schools Commission will go back to the bargaining table with two cyber high schools that want to open this fall but say they cannot with the current funding the state is providing. The schools, Kaplan Academy of Georgia and Provost Academy Georgia, have tabled their approved commission charter petitions due to a […]
July 20, 2010
Ten-year-old Mackenzie Cureton implored the Jefferson County Commission to do the right thing as she addressed the standing-room-only crowd of about 200 people Monday. "A new school would mean so much to us. You commissioners have been working on this project my entire life," said the rising sixth-grader at Jefferson Middle School. Her comment drew […]
July 20, 2010
Putnam County Board of Education members said Monday that they would spend more than $128 million to build and fix county schools over the next 10 years. Each county is required by the state Board of Education to develop a 10-year Comprehensive Educational Facilities Plan, so state officials are aware of how much local school […]
July 20, 2010
Kansas public schools will receive increased Medicaid funding for health services they provide children enrolled in s pecial education programs but no longer will be reimbursed for providing the students attendant care, state Medicaid officials announced today. Officials for the Kansas Health Policy Authority, which oversees the state’s Medicaid program, said the federal Centers for […]
July 19, 2010
The Davenport Community School Distr ict may fight a state practice of giving some school districts more per student in aid than the others, leaders say. About half of Iowa school districts for the 2010-11 fiscal year will receive $5,883 per student, according to the Iowa Department of Education. That is the amount Davenport and […]
July 19, 2010
Supporters of early childhood education worry about the impact of cuts Gov. Pat Quinn has announced to education. Though preschool and early learning programs are supposed to receive the same $342 million they did last year, many of them haven’t yet been paid for last year and had to dip into reserves to keep going. […]