May 17, 2010
Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Dr. Bill Hazel a nnounced Friday the establishment of a statewide health reform initiative. The intent of the Health Care Reform Initiative, which will be within the Health and Human Resources Secretariat, is to prepare Virginia for the implementation of federal health reform by planning for the expansion […]
May 17, 2010
Tucked in Portland Superintendent Carole Smith’s high school redesign blueprint is a companion plan to give unprecedented help and protection to a handful of high-poverty elementary and middle schools along with the city’s two longest-struggl ing high schools. Among the promises: better principals, a longer school year, more hands on deck and the right to […]
May 17, 2010
About 225 teachers in the Coachella Valley will receive final notices by today that they have been laid off. Among them is third-grade teacher Karen DeNovi, who received her final layoff notice just one day before being honored as a teacher of the year by the Riverside County Office of Education. “I personally will get […]
May 17, 2010
Almost 1,000 Inland teachers received final layoff notices this week, though furloughs or other concessions could b ring an unknown number of those teachers back to the classroom. Under California law, today is the deadline for school officials to notify teachers if they will not have jobs in 2010-11. Despite the deadline, several districts are […]
May 17, 2010
As budget approval gets closer in the school district, it is clear that no one is happy — neither the superintendent, the Board of Education, the teachers, the staff nor parents. The board has to approve its 2010-11 budget before the fiscal year starts July 1. One thing was certain at Monday’s board meeting: No […]
May 17, 2010
Within four days, HF3833, the newest omnibus K-12 education bill, was introduced, approved by a committee and passed 86-47 by the House May 11. It replaces HF2431, which was t ravelling through the committee process until being tabled May 7 in the House Ways and Means Committee. Rep. Mindy Greiling (DFL-Roseville), the bill’s sponsor, successfully […]
May 17, 2010
The Florida Medicaid system will not be reformed this year. The sponsors of a plan to overhaul the system were unsuccessful in a bid to pass the bill before the state’s legislative session ended April 30. The bill would have gradually transitioned most state Medicaid enrollees into managed care plans. House leaders hoped that they […]
May 17, 2010
Orange County’s public schools could avert further massive budget cuts if state and federal lawmakers allow more local control over restricted money for schools, end unnecessary and unfunded mandates and pay their fair share of special education costs, county school leaders said Friday. Twenty superintendents from the county’s 28 districts gathered at the county Department […]
May 14, 2010
Legislators reconvened on Thursday for a special session to take up Gov. Manchin’s education legislation. Legislators introduced 13 bills on behalf of the governor when they reconvened at noon yesterday. Eight of the bills pertain to education, as the state attempts another bid at federal Race to the Top school funding. Each of the items […]
May 14, 2010
Rhode Island lawmakers on Thursday began consideration of three competing bills that would create a state education funding formula. The House Finance Committee heard hours of testimony on the bills. School administrators for years have called for a funding formula, saying the current system doesn’t give them a reliable way to budget. But if the […]