March 8, 2010
Hawaii fell short in its first bid for federal funds in the "Race to the Top" competition, a $4 billion effort to improve schools across the nation, but is gearing up to try again in the second round. "While we’re disappointed, I don’t think we’re surprised," Interim Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi said yesterday. "We are going […]
March 8, 2010
As expected, President Obama popped by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ meeting with executives from the five largest health insurance companies. The news was first broken by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on twitter, who tweeted: “POTUS went to ins. exec mtg w/ ltr from woman whose insurance will rise 40% nxt […]
March 6, 2010
VISTA — The Vista school board Thursday night took a few steps closer toward balancing the 2010-11 budget by narrowing a deficit exceeding $18 million. In the latest round of cuts, trustees for the Vista Unified School District voted to trim more than $500,000 in expenses. The cuts will reduce magnet school funding and various […]
March 5, 2010
California was disqualified Thursday from receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in school reform funds when federal education leaders announced that 15 other states and Washington, D.C., are in the running for billions in federal grants. The money at stake is the first round of $4.35 billion that the Obama administration plans to give states […]
March 5, 2010
Florida House Speaker Larry Cretul issued a budget allocation plan Thursday that would increase state funding for public schools by 9 percent to offset a $788 million drop in local property tax receipts, but he warned it won’t be enough to avoid some spending cuts. Cretul also included a 19 percent increase for health care […]
March 5, 2010
Though they didn’t close campus access roads or shut down a freeway, throngs of students at Peninsula community colleges, high schools and even middle and elementary schools chanted, rallied and made it loud and clear Thursday that they’re fed up with education funding cuts. In what was billed as a "Day of Action" across California […]
March 5, 2010
About 200 people filled a conference room at the Quincy School District Board office to hear the Board’s next move regarding $3.8 million in cuts. But School District officials said discussion of $2 million of those cuts would happen in closed session Wednesday night and no action would be taken until the Board’s regular March […]
March 5, 2010
PIERRE, SD – The budget has been the talk of South Dakota’s legislative session for the past two months, but that talk has now turned into more than $40 million in cuts to state government. With one week left in the session, Republicans released a list Thursday that lays out programs that could get cut […]
March 5, 2010
LINCOLN — An unexpected $16.3 million increase in the amount Nebraska will have to give schools could force deeper cuts in state agency budgets. It will also make it tougher to pass a bill that continues prenatal care for undocumented immigrants. The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee struggled Thursday to bring the state budget back in balance […]
March 5, 2010
NEW HAVEN — United Way of Greater New Haven has begun work with the city and Board of Education to boost and streamline nonprofit services aimed at improving mental and physical health of students and famili es. The effort, dubbed BOOST, was announced Thursday as a key component of the city’s school reform effort, which […]