June 17, 2010
Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson vowed in April that there would be no more cuts in education funding, but a potential loss of federal funds now has him scrambling. Kansas along with 29 other states could be in big trouble if an extension in federal stimulus money to state Medicaid programs doesn’t come through. Kansas legislators […]
June 17, 2010
Spring Lake Park District 16 School Board has approved a $56.9 million total expenditure budget for 2010-11 school year. The budget is a 3.7 percent decrease ($2.2 million) from last year’s total expenditure budget of $59.1 million, while revenues decreas ed from $58.5 million last year to $58.3 million or a 0.4 percent decrease ($262,005) […]
June 17, 2010
Questions still plague a petition to open a charter school in Cherokee County with approval at tonight’s school board meeting looking unlikely. An analysis by county school board attorney Tom Roach and county school district staff released on Wednesday raises questions about Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.-based Charter Schools USA’s ability to manage the proposed kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school. […]
June 17, 2010
Special-education advocates fear that as the state’s budget crisis filters into classrooms, more school di stricts will skimp on services to children with disabilities — or take money from regular education programs to pay for them. While critics complain that two suburban school districts are contracting with a lower-cost private school, Ombudsman Plus, for some […]
June 17, 2010
A west suburban school district has been spending taxpayer dollars to send troubled students to an alternative school that isn’t approved by the state and has been visited by police 20 times in the last year, a Tribune inquiry found. Police made eight arrests, the most serious for battery and sexual misconduct, at the private […]
June 16, 2010
While many high school students in Great Falls enrolled in summer school courses online this year, a new state program is ramping up efforts to get students enrolled in online high school courses this fall — for free. Montana’s Digital Academy based at the University of Montana in Missoula is planning to offer 45 online […]
June 16, 2010
At least three states have asked for permission to cut back on the money they provide districts for special education, under a built-in escape clause in the federal special education law that is aimed at financially struggling states. Iowa and Kansas have both been granted a waiver, which under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act […]
June 16, 2010
Some say the quality of education and programs in Pottstown is slipping simply because the school district can’t raise enough money from its crumbling tax base. Others say the taxes in Pottstown are too high, because of school district spending, which is why the town can’t attract businesses to shore up the tax base. The […]
June 16, 2010
State aid for public schools would be frozen for the second consecutive year under legislation that won easy House approval Tuesday. The vote was 90-6. The legislation, House Concurrent Resolution 243, next faces action in the Senate. The proposal would authorize some $3.3 billion to be spent to help pay for teacher salaries, school supplies […]
June 16, 2010
A neat piece of budgeting could help Johnston County Schools keep about $10.5 million in state funding. Last week, school leaders asked county commissioners to push about $4.6 million in June funding into July, the start of a new budget year. That move will allow the schools to meet a state requirement that counties spend […]