June 29, 2010
Several high-performing charter schools in Boston are pursuing proposals that could yield nearly a dozen additional schools in the city over the next few years, the most robust expansion in more than a decade. The proposals would be among the first filed with the state this summer under a new Massachusetts law that allows the […]
June 29, 2010
Democratic lawmakers in Albany assembled most of the remaining pieces of a $136 billion state budget Monday after last-minute uncertainty over whether Senate Democrats could muster enough votes to overcome united Republican opposition. But Gov. David Paterson wielded the veto ax against a key element of it - the $600 million the Legislature restored in […]
June 29, 2010
The Austin school district is unlikely to meet federal academic improvement standards for a second year because of unsatisfactory performance on state exams by special education students, district officials said Monday . The prediction is based on preliminary data, and district officials said a report being compiled by district staff was not immediately available. The […]
June 29, 2010
Public school students will not see teacher furlough days in the com ing school year, but they will feel the pinch of budget cuts in other ways, Board of Education members warned. The board approved an operating budget yesterday for the 2010-11 school year that includes $1.25 billion from the state’s general fund and the […]
June 29, 2010
Iowa will face an unexpected $121 million budget shortfall in the fiscal year that starts Thursday if Congress fails to approve legislation providing extra funding for Medicaid. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, more commonly known as the federal stimulus, temporarily provided states with a 6.2 percent increase in the portion of Medicaid financed by […]
June 28, 2010
Claiming that Chicago Public Schools routinely fails to properly evaluate young children for special education services, an advocacy group has filed a complaint with the Illinois State Board of Education. Equip for Equality, the state’s federally mandated watchdog for people with disabilities, said in its complaint that "hundreds of children between the ages of 3 […]
June 28, 2010
So last week, four Kansas City District residents sued state officials over distributing money from the school foundation formula, after lawmakers reduced the total state-aid appropriation because of lower-than-expected state revenues. The suit asks the Cole County Circuit Court to order state officials to give the Kansas City, Mo. School District (KCMSD) the additional $2.933 […]
June 28, 2010
For months, Abington Heights School District Superintendent Michael Mahon, Ph.D., has been occupied with a calculator and pages of financial projections. School board members resisted a tax hike for 2010-11, but balancing the budget any other way proved nearly impossible. Eventually, school district officials presented a budget of $44.1 million that includes a 2-mill tax […]
June 28, 2010
New York lawmakers, unwilling to approve a budget plan proposed by Governor David Paterson, prepared an alternative that cuts less aid to schools and universities and authorizes spending to avoid a government shutdown. The plan drew criticism from the governor’s office. A statement by Paterson’s spokesman, Morgan Hook, said it lacked revenue proposals to close […]
June 28, 2010
Two top Garden City school officials aren’t holding their breath about news that there wi ll be no cuts to school funding next year. In her two years as Garden City Schools superintendent, Michelle Cline said that she has grown wary of talk that doesn’t result in money. “I will believe it when I see […]