May 4, 2010
Some details are still up in the air, but about 18 jobs will be lost as the Sunnyside School District continues to work out plans to cut $1.6 million. Most of the losses will be absorbed though resignations and retirements, said Curtis Campbell, district spokesman. Plans for some positions are still undecided. The school board […]
May 4, 2010
Redwood City School District students would have five fewer days of class next year under a tentative agreement between the district’s administrators and teachers union. The proposed three-year deal would end lengthy negotiations between the district and teachers, who have been with out a contract since June 2009. It still must be ratified by the […]
May 4, 2010
The New York Senate passed a contentious bill Monday evening that would more than double the number of charter schools in the state, a move seen as key to helping the state win up to $700 million in federal grant money, although the legislation is unlikely to pass in its current form in the Assembly. […]
May 4, 2010
The appropriation will go to the Representative Town Meeting for final approval on Monday, May 10, the same night the RTM will vote on the town and school budgets for 2010-11. Board of Education Chairman Kim Westcott said that the Board of Finance vote went “smoothly” as the finance board had been kept up to […]
May 4, 2010
School Administrative District 13 board members finalized Wednesday a 2010-11 proposed budget, which includes no layoffs but does request a substantial cut to a special education director’s salary. &# x0A; The $3.1 million proposed budget is down 2 percent from last year. "It’s very conservative," Superintendent Kenneth Smith told the board Wednesday night. "I think […]
May 4, 2010
Testifying before a panel of Republican state legislators at the Spring-Ford School District’s Ninth Grade Center last week, Spring-Ford and Pottstown school district administrators called on Pennsylvania to help meet the growing costs of special education programs. Spring-Ford Superintendent Marsha Hurda joined the Pottstown district’s director of special education and student services, Pam Bateson, and […]
May 3, 2010
For years, Missouri’s K-12 schools have enjoyed increases in funding from the state — a growth of more than $1.5 billion in the past decade. That ended this week when lawmakers approved a budget with flat funding in core school spending. Still, that news was greeted with a dose of optimism by some education officials, […]
May 3, 2010
The state Senate approved a wide-ranging school reform bill Friday that would require high school students to take more math and science courses and, for the first time, foreign language classes to graduate. The bill, passed 32-3, also would link teacher evaluations to student performance and lift enrollment limits on charter schools. It’s designed to […]
May 3, 2010
D.C. charter school supporters are threatening legal action against the city if the mayors fiscal 2010 and 2011 budget proposals fail to comply with legal mandates for the per-pupil funding formulas.<br /& gt; The threat came Friday as D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi and Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee testified before the D.C. Council on […]
May 3, 2010
The proposed state budget passed by the Legislature on Friday will give Polk County Schools $2.9 million more than it received last year. That brought a sigh of relief from school administrators but anger from Polk County School Board Chairman Frank O’Reilly, who said legislators are not doing enough for education. But Rep. Seth McKeel, […]