June 3, 2010
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed California’s Race to the Top Phase Two application which could provide up to $700 million in much-needed funding to our schools through the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act). California’s application was developed by a working group of seven school districts superintendents who are committed to the reforms outlined […]
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 […]
June 3, 2010
Budget shortfalls in Missouri and school funding cuts mean less class time for hundreds of Region 8 students. Normally during the summer, the Kennett School District would have a full schedule. Students who would normally be in school for the summer will not be coming to class. Superintendent Jerry Noble said usually reimbursement for summer […]
June 3, 2010
While many school boards in Huron County are approving the Huron Intermediate School District’s proposed general fund budget, the school board in this district opposed it at last week’s meeting, based on a new special education funding formula that negatively affects the district. While the special education fund is separate from the general fund, the […]
June 3, 2010
The School Committee thinks that the state should reward schools that keep special education students in their own districts. Now the committee is looking for legislation to back it up. Committee member Andy Limeri drafted the committee’s resolution, which was sent to the Massachusetts Association of School Committees. He said the state’s existing funding formula […]
June 3, 2010
For students, June marks the beginning of the countdown to summer vacation. But for teachers and other school employees across northern Massachusetts, it is often the cruelest month. With the economic turndown showing few signs of letting up, more than 100 educators are expected to receive pink slips from school districts in Beverly, Haverhill, Lowell, […]
June 2, 2010
Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia applied for the second phase of the Race to the Top federal education competition as the application deadline passed Tuesday night. The states are hoping to win a piece of the $3.4 billion available under President Barack Obama’s signature education initiative. Race to the Top aims to spur […]
June 2, 2010
Longtime Chicago school principal Dick Smith has been given a mandate: take Chicago Public Schools’ special education program, long subjected to withering criticism, and change it into a system focused on education and not simply compliance with federal laws, a system that responds rapidly and effectively to the needs of students and the concerns of […]
June 2, 2010
More than two dozen states reapplied Tuesday for millions of dollars in "Race to the Top" education grants, but nine decided to sit out this second round of the competition. For them, the hurdles to win a share of $3.4 billion proved to be too high. Some wary of relinqui shing their tradition of local […]