March 29, 2010
In February, Gov. Ed Rendell proposed giving Columbia Borough School District a $314,233 increase in state funding next year. Oops, make that $171,883. And School District of Lancaster? Forget about that $5.4 million hike you were promised. The actual number is $4.3 million. The Legislature is months away from debating possible cuts in Rendell’s school […]
March 29, 2010
The state of Missouri has over billed Medicaid by about $20.5million for administrative costs in schools associated with services for low-income students or those with disabilities, according to a federal audit released this week. Although the audit recommends Missouri refund that amount,it’s now up to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to […]
March 29, 2010
We told you Thursday night the Milburn School District is going to a four day school week for the month of April, and in turn, it could save the district about $8-thousand. And that’s just the beginning. Turns out, they might not be the only district either. Meredith Saldana spent the day digging into what […]
March 29, 2010
Pocatello/Chubbuck School District Superintendent Mary Vagner has some difficult decisions to make. Last year the school district lost $3 million in state funding. To make ends meet, officials cut back on discretionary spending and eliminated two days from the school year. They also decreased teachers’ salaries by 1 percent and increased the amount they […]
March 29, 2010
For Allison Anderson, the price of not having health insurance was about $1,000. That’s how much she was charged after a broken glass in the kitchen sink sent her to the emergency room. Her family is still paying off the bill, she said. "I try to keep healthy because I don’t like putting my […]
March 29, 2010
Los Angeles school district officials and employee unions announced an agreement Saturday to cut five days from this school year and seven days next year in an effort to maintain up to 2,100 campus jobs. If approved by members of the teachers and administrators unions, the move would save the Los Angeles Unified School District […]
March 29, 2010
There’s a tidal wave coming. And it’s about to affect your kids. In recent weeks, state education funding woes have triggered a tsunami of pink slips to thousands upon thousands of teachers and support staff in school districts statewide, with about 9,800 announced layoffs of teachers so far. Another 1,600 retiring teachers […]
March 29, 2010
With costs increasing and no additional money coming from the state, South Dakota teachers could lose their jobs and property owners in some districts might be asked to pay more for education. Tight budgets are nothing new to South Dakota schools. But in a bill signed Friday by Gov. Mike Rounds, lawmakers removed a […]
March 29, 2010
A few Richmonders have pushed their concerns over special-education testing from local blogs to the state law books. After the four locals launched a concentrated effort to raise the profile of alternative assessments given to thousands of young special-education students each year, Gov. Bob McDonnell on March 9 signed a bill requiring school superintendents to […]
March 29, 2010
State Schools Superintendent Susan Castillo has released the numbers for Oregon’s Special Education Child Count for the 2009-10 school year. The report shows that the total number of Oregon children, aged 0-21, in special education programs has increased to 82,824 – an increase from last year’s 81,988. The number of school-age students in special education […]