April 23, 2010
The House Medicaid program, co-written by State Rep. Denise Grimsley, goes too far, too fast, according to the governor and the Senate’s budget chief. Sen. J.D. Alexander, R-Lake Wales, said concern is rising about Medicaid reforms. He wants to slow down. Medicaid costs Florida $19 billion a year, but Alexander said it is one of […]
April 23, 2010
Widely divergent approaches to overhauling Medicaid which emerged from the House and Senate loomed Wednesday as an obstacle in talks on the proposed $69 billion state budget, with the Senate’s chief budget-writer saying the ambitious rewrite should be delayed. Once characterized as historic, plans to revamp the state-federal Medicaid program looked more likely to become […]
April 22, 2010
A plan created by Bloomer School District administrators to cut $129,000 from the budget saves teachers’ jobs, though a couple of aides will be laid off if it passes. The school board will meet tonight to discuss and possibly vote on the plan. Any decision has to be made before the May 15 layoff notification […]
April 22, 2010
The special education students of Washington School may find themselves in a new location next year, due to budget cuts, a fact that has raised the ire of some residents. Washington School houses administration school officials and four classes, all of which are special education. These classes consist of two half-day preschool disabled classes, a […]
April 22, 2010
Detroit — Robert Bobb’s plans received a setback Wednesday when a judge upheld an injun ction that puts off his school closing strategy and halts his academic vision for Detroit Public Schools. Wayne Circuit Judge Wendy Baxter set hearings starting May 7 to delineate the powers between Bobb, the district’s state-appointed emergency financial manager, and […]
April 22, 2010
While it’s still in the proposal stage, and the Thompson School District Board of Education won’t actually vote on it until at least the middle of May, Chief Financial Officer Steve Towne delivered the news Wednesday night that what was originally thought to be a $6.6 million deficit could actually turn out to be somewhat […]
April 22, 2010
Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools parents rallied against the prospect of 37 kids to a class and an "unconscionable” state school funding system Wednesday, just as CPS officials softened earlier projections of the impact of a record deficit. Many of the 500 or so parents and kids who crowded outside the Thompson Center signed a […]
April 22, 2010
Bucking a national trend of layoffs and deep cuts, the School District of Philadelphia on Wednesday introduced a $3.2 billion 2010-11 budget that contains money for new classroom initiatives. Despite a tough economy, new labor contracts, bigger pension obligations, and less help from the city, the district wants to spend $180 million on Imagine 2014, […]
April 21, 2010
Only two school budgets in Somerset County passed today after residents rejected tax hikes despite severe cuts to programs and staff in districts across the county. Somerset Hills Regional and North Plainfield were the only two districts out of a total of 17 to pass budgets today, while large districts like Bridgewater-Raritan and Franklin Township […]
April 21, 2010
Southern New Jersey voters came out in record numbers Tuesday, and many of them rejected their school budgets. But results in some counties were not as bad as had been feared, based on the unofficial results. Cape May bucked what appeared to be a statewide trend of rejections, approving nine of 15 budgets. Based on […]