June 8, 2010
On May 3, the Tuscaloosa county and city school systems, along with other systems throughout the state, submitted applications to obtain federal School Improvement Grant funds to improve their Tier III schools, which are schools that rank among the lowest academically in the state. Since both local systems had their Tier I School Improvement Grant […]
June 8, 2010
Nearly 70 teachers will lose their jobs as part of about $14 million in cutbacks contained in the Jefferson County School District budget approved by the Board of Education late Thursday night. The board voted 4-1 to approve a $969.59 million dollar 2010/2011 school year budget that includes $661.7 million in operating expenses and spending […]
June 8, 2010
If all the students who live in the Willow Run school district and attend a traditional public school were enrolled in Willow Run, the district would add nearly $8 million to its budget – currently crumbling under the weight of a $3 million deficit. Willow Run is far from alone in that predicament. With the […]
June 8, 2010
The year ended much as it had begun, with multitudes filling a sun-splashed football stadium to hear speakers offer words of hope and inspiration. One big difference: No one booed this time. It was less than a year ago that Birmingham High School in the San Fernando Valley received approval to pull out of the […]
June 8, 2010
About 100 parents and advocates voiced concerns Saturday that some of New Orleans’ charter schools have rejected students with disabilities, or told parents that they can’t afford to provide special education services. The group spoke at a meeting hosted by the federal education department’s Office of Civil Rights, the first of its kind in years […]
June 8, 2010
Commercial interests have always gotten a share of public education dollars through contracts for school construction, food services, textbooks, and the like. But until the 1990s, the delivery of education content and the accountability for student results were solely government’s preserve. Enter the era of market-based reforms to public education and the advent of charters: […]
June 8, 2010
School districts across the state are facing serious financial shortfalls for the coming school year, according to the Pennsylvania School Funding Campaign. "It doesn’t matter where you are. It doesn’t matt er if you’re urban, suburban, rural, small, big or in between," said Jay Himes, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials. […]
June 8, 2010
Plans are in place for 11 San Bernardino schools to move in a new direction at the beginning of the next school year. But many of those significant changes are contingent on the San Bernardino City Unified School District getting additional funding from competitive federal grants. As of Friday, California’s application for that School Improvement […]
June 8, 2010
Chicago Teachers Union officials vowed to file suit today, charging that plans to raise city class sizes to 35 are unsafe and violate the municipal code. "You’re looking at a very dangerous situation,” CTU President Marilyn Stewart said at a news conference Monday. "We’re asking the Board [of Ed ucation] to prove that you can […]
June 4, 2010
School districts plan to continue legal action against the state this summer even though legislators didn’t make further cuts to education funding for next school year, according to their attorney. The first goal of legal action by Schools For Fair Funding, a coalition of 74 districts including Hays USD 489, was to stop more cuts […]