April 21, 2010
The Board of Supervisors isn’t giving any indications it will increase the real estate and personal property tax rates to raise more revenues for schools, meaning it’s possible the county could go to a four-day school week. The supervisors are scheduled to adopt a 2010-11 budget Thursday night. At a meeting Tuesday night, a proposal […]
April 21, 2010
With less than 10 days left before the legislative session ends, an aggressive House plan to overhaul Medicaid may be in trouble. Gov. Charlie Crist said Tuesday afternoon that he had "concerns" about the proposal, which would shift nearly all 2.7 million Floridians on Medicaid to HMOs and other private managed-care plans or organizations. That […]
April 21, 2010
A contract settlement with the teachers’ union could offset $400,000 in proposed cuts to the Ames Community School District’s general budget for fiscal year 2010-11. Superintendent Tim Taylor told the school board Monday night he is confident the district and the Ames Education Association are close to agreement, and he came to the meeting prepared […]
April 21, 2010
The Annandale School Board has cut $397,100 from a list of potential program and staff reductions that totaled $1,018,800. The amount will cover the majority of a projected $575,859 deficit for next year if Gov. Tim Pawlenty can stick to his pledge to spare K-12 education as the state tackles a $1.2 billion deficit. If […]
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 […]
April 21, 2010
There was advice about how to get a job, find an apartment and get around town. At a seminar to help special education students make the transition to life after high school, speakers covered those big topics and then got down to the nitty gritty. They offered specifics about what to wear to an interview, […]
April 20, 2010
TOWANDA – Faced with a $519,093 shortfall in its proposed budget for the 2010-11 school year, the Towanda School District may have to cut back on some of the programs it offers for students. The Towanda Area School Board on Monday directed the school district’s administration to erase some of the shortfall by coming up […]
April 20, 2010
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Harvard Medical School professor Donald Berwick on Monday to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, filling a role at the heart of his historic healthcare reform. A health policy expert, Berwick would take over as the agency, the largest U.S. healthcare agency and one of the government’s largest, […]
April 20, 2010
Erin Swanson’s sixth-grade daughter planned to take show choir this summer to gain an edge in next fall’s tryouts at her middle school in Blue Springs. Swanson’s other daughter, a high school sophomore, planned to defer a summer job so she could take her little sister to morning practices while their mother works. But with […]