May 7, 2010
here’s a huge gap between the current teaching model to serve special education students and the money available to fund it. On Tuesday, the Killeen ISD school board will vote on whether to approve 13 full-time and one part-time special education teachers for the next school year. This will take about $600,000 from the general […]
May 7, 2010
Even though George Rogers Clark Elementary has been open for more than 100 years, its future will soon lie in the hands of the Clarksville Community School Corp. board. Tuesday night voters turned down a referendum that would have raised taxes 24 cents per $100 of assessed valuation to those owning property in the district […]
May 5, 2010
Think states have made deep spending cuts? You ain’t seen nothing yet. States have been struggling with huge budget gaps since 2008, but this year could be worse as federal stimulus funds wind down. Until now, stimulus money spared governors and state lawmakers from making some of the most brutal budget cuts. But with this […]
May 5, 2010
Fixing an error in the state formula for basic education funding will leave Northern Lehigh School District with $166,000 less than the administration anticipated in the 2010-11 school year. The Pennsylvania Department of Education’s recalculation will affect 379 school districts. Northern Lehigh is the only school district in Lehigh County affected by last month’s change. […]
May 5, 2010
Referendums seeking millions of dollars in additional funding passed easily Tuesday in numerous central Indiana school districts. Voters in Washington Township, Pike Township, Speedway, Carmel Clay and Noblesville approved higher tax rates to help prevent teacher cuts or support building projects. Washington Township voters overwhelmingly approved a property-tax rate increase of 8 cents per $100 […]
May 5, 2010
The passage of the $23.3 billion state budget by the Missouri General Assembly last week will mean more cost cutting measures for the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District. “In the state budget, there was flat funding for the foundation formula,” said R-7 superintendent David McGehee. “We were projecting about an 8 percent reduction in the […]
May 5, 2010
The Minnesota House on Tuesday passed a health care bill that erases $170 million of the state budget deficit, lays the groundwork for federal health care changes, spells out hundreds of million in cuts to mental health, welfare and other programs, and pushes the 2010 legislative session a step closer to the finish line. It […]
May 5, 2010
Dozens of teachers and school administrators showed up Friday at the Indiana Department of Education to offer their evaluation of a new plan to issue letter grades for their schools. Their consensus: The proposal deserves an F. In a passionate hearing, educators from around the state implored state officials to scrap a plan to grade […]
May 5, 2010
City charter schools enroll far fewer of the most severely disabled stu dents than traditional public schools, state records show. Only about 1% of special education students in charter schools are so disabled they require separate classes – compared with the 33% of special ed students in district schools. These include students who are emotionally […]
May 4, 2010
Senator Brian A. Joyce (D-Milton) and Representative William C. Galvin are pleased to announce that the Town of Canton has been awarded an additional $205,337 in extraordinary relief by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The funds will come from the Special Education Circuit Breaker Extraordinary Relief Claims program, which is designed to help […]