June 4, 2010
On June 1, 2010, Governor Charlie Crist provided an opportunity for Florida’s students and teachers to garner more than $700 million in education funding with the submission of the state’s application for Phase 2 funding in the federal Race to the Top grant competition. In addition to the support of 65 of Florida’s 67 school […]
June 4, 2010
With stimulus funds boosting one side and the sucker punch of the state’s negative inflation factor bruising the other, the Worcester public schools budget proposal will limp into City Hall this afternoon at 0.1 percent lighter than the current budget. The School Committee will meet from 4 to 6 p.m. for the first of two […]
June 4, 2010
Saying "We can’t afford to take a step back," the U.S. secretary of education urged an audience of Durham educators and community leaders Thursday to support a federal bill that would provide $23 billion to save teaching jobs. "We can’t afford to see class size go to 45," Arne Duncan, the top federal education official, […]
June 4, 2010
While a $1.2 billion budget sounds big, expenses within MPS have been going up faster than revenue. Michelle Nate is the head of finance and operations. She says for example, one of the district’s biggest funding sources, state aid, has declined three years in a row. At the same time, costs such as for employee […]
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 […]
June 4, 2010
What has been perhaps the most persistent area of disagreement between Gov. James Douglas and Democratic lawmakers during his time in office likely ended Thursday, with a whimper rather than a bang. Douglas, who will leave office in January, allowed a school consolidation bill to become law without signing it, underscoring his dissatisfaction with the […]
June 4, 2010
Laura Drews has converted a corner of her San Jose dining room into a public school. Every weekday, she guides her first-, fifth- and eighth-grade children through their class assignments, delivered through textbooks and desktop computers. The Drews’ unorthodox education is paid for by taxpayers, but created and operated by a for-profit company based in […]
June 4, 2010
The School Committee has given its support for the Southern Maine Special Education Collaborative. The collaborative is intended to save money for the five school districts taking part: Kittery, Wells-Ogunquit, SAD 35 (Eliot and South Berwick), SAD 60 (North Berwick and Lebanon) and York. The agreement, which York agreed to on Wednesday, takes effect July […]
June 3, 2010
If parents in the Cupertino Union School District had been graded on their recent campaign to fill the district’s budget chasm, they would have soared so off the charts they would have destroyed the curve. Their energetic, grass-roots effort raised $2.2 million in eight weeks to help stave off more than 100 layoffs and preserve […]
June 3, 2010
Without voters’ help, the Monroe County Community School Corporation could be short $2 billion by 2012. The MCCSC is proposing a school funding referendum for the Nov. 2 ballot to help lighten the blows it has taken to a diminishing school budget. Members of the MCCSC said this is the best option the county has […]