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 […]
March 4, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY — GOP senators backed a $1 tax increase on a pack of cigarettes in their closed-door caucus Wednesday — and, for the second day in a row, endorsed cutting public education by $21 million to pay for other state needs. "This has a way of bringing you to the table, when you […]
March 4, 2010
TOPEKA, Kan. – Harmony broke out in a House Education Committee meeting Wednesday morning. Both the proponents and opponents of House Bill 2409, a special education funding proposal, agreed that the current $25,000 threshold that schools must meet before receiving what is known as catastrophic aid is too low. Catastrophic aid is money schools receive […]
March 3, 2010
Public school enrollment fell slightly this school year in Jackson County and statewide, according to a state report released Tuesday. But the drops could carry a big pricetag for some districts, including Medford. The county lost 372 public school students, from 28,367 to 27,995, between years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010, a drop of about 1 percent. […]
March 3, 2010
Downers Grove, IL — Classrooms are getting an unwelcome increase in size — but school officials are hoping for a budget breakthrough to bring the class sizes back down. Community High School District 99 will see an increase in class sizes for the 2010-11 school year after the Board of Education approved a reduction in […]
March 3, 2010
Thousands of Utah junior high and high school students could lose school bus services if a bill that gained overwhelming support in the House on Tuesday passes. Under HB166, junior high and high school students who live less than three miles from school might no longer get bus service. Schools would still be allowed to […]
March 3, 2010
The Southland’s largest school district, like many others in the region, is moving forward with teacher layoffs. Los Angeles Unified’s board of education voted today to send 5,200 provisional layoff notices to district employees. About half of those notices will go to managers who hold teaching credentials. Most of the rest wi ll go to […]
March 3, 2010
PIERRE, SD – A bill to reform the education funding formula in South Dakota is alive again. Senator Dave Knudson’s bill, SB 124, aims to give schools more money, but only if state revenue grows, too. Tuesday, Knudson revived the bill under a different name, after lawmakers changed the original bill’s intent. Designed to increase […]
March 3, 2010
KILDARE – County Councillors have voted to condemn anticipated cutbacks in special needs assistants (SNAs) for the county’s school following a trade union estimate that a hundred such positions could be lost in the county. However, last Monday’s Kildare County Council meeting heard from Fianna Fáil Cllr. Paul Kelly that the figures were not based on […]