March 23, 2010
EDWARDSVILLE – The Edwardsville School Board unanimously approved more than $3.1 million in budget cuts for the next school year Monday night, including cuts of 25 probationary teachers and reduction and re-assignment of seven administrators. A total of 60 staff positions will be eliminated or cut back. "The solutions brought forth tonight are not ones […]
March 23, 2010
The school district says it will cut $470 per charter student for the rest of the budget year, which ends July 1, if it does not get $50 million that the city pledged for this year and $57 million it cut in 2008. "This is not just an inconvenience or a little bit of a […]
March 22, 2010
The House’s health care bill would treat a chronic problem with Medicaid in Texas: low payments to physicians who treat patients covered by the public insurance program for the poor. The package unveiled Thursday would provide full federal funding to raise Medicaid physician payments to a level equal with Medicare, the government insurance for the […]
March 22, 2010
The Ridgewood school district proposed new budget cuts on the heels of Governor Christie’s budget address earlier this week. About 40 residents gathered in the Education Center boardroom at a special meeting Friday evening as district officials announced a new wave of potential cuts totaling $2.9 million. Ridgewood learned on Thursday afternoon that it would […]
March 22, 2010
Ridgefield schools are facing a budget crunch after overcharging dozens of towns in Bergen, Passaic and Hudson counties almost $3 million for sending students to the district’s special education program. The district has returned all but $850,000 of the overcharge to the school districts in the past two years, but officials have struggled to find […]
March 22, 2010
There is still a big concern about how Area Education Agencies are run in Iowa. It does not seem they utilize taxpayers’ money appropriately or fulfill the needs of the children they were intended to help. AEAs continue to operate without accountability. There should be uniformity of services and best practice guidelines in Iowa. There […]
March 22, 2010
A teacher for autistic kids, two career planning and placement specialists and the director of media and technology were among positions cut for the 2010-11 school year by the Ingham Intermediate School District. The district’s board of education unanimously accepted $1.4 million in cuts Tuesday. That’s on top of $3.2 million already cut from this […]
March 22, 2010
With varying levels of student poverty, property t axes rates and local revenues, no two suburban school districts are funded exactly the same way. Years ago, complicated formulas were created in the attempt to equalize resources in rich and poor districts across the state. Those that take in less local revenue, are, in theory, supposed […]
March 22, 2010
School administrators are staring down a triple-barreled threat. State aid for schools is frozen. Minnesota is borrowing more than $2 billion in funding promised to schools to help balance the books, forcing districts to dip into their reserves and take out loans. And lawmakers still need to fill in an additional $1 billion shortfall. So […]
March 22, 2010
House Democrats approved a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s health system on Sunday, voting over unanimous Republican opposition to provide medical coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans after an epic political battle that could define the differences between the parties for years. With the 219-to-212 vote, the House gave final approval to legislation […]