March 1, 2010
Forty-four Napa Valley Unified School District teachers kept their jobs this year thanks to federal stimulus funding. But next year will be different. So-called stimulus dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 reached all the public schools in the county to varying degrees last year, buying time against the full impact of […]
March 1, 2010
Districtwide salary reductions, nine layoffs and dipping into reserves are among the measures Fallbrook Union High School District administrators are considering to close a projected $1.8 million budget shortfall for the school year starting July 1. Laying off seven teachers, a counselor, an assistant principal and all tempor ary teachers would save the district an […]
March 1, 2010
The debate leading to a school-tax referendum in Sarasota County has generated a lot of questions, including many focused on the broader topic of education funding in Florida. Writing about this topic has its risks. It’s complicated, numbers change from year to year and county to county. And, unless the writer is prepared to produce […]
March 1, 2010
Desperate times may call for desperate measures, but they should be taken only after careful thought and planning. Collaboration between Pueblo County’s two school districts may have seemed unthinkable a few years ago, but combining some functions could improve services and each district’s bottom line. That was the consensus Friday during a congenial […]
February 25, 2010
DeKalb County schools’ superintendent is calling for 148 central office employees to be laid off to help meet an anticipated $88 million deficit. Those cuts are just the beginning of an across-the-board slashing of programs, personnel and school closings to meet the growing deficit in next year’s budget, Superintendent Crawford Lewis said. Hundreds more school […]
February 25, 2010
Arts groups are fighting back against a proposal by the House Appropriations Committee to eliminate state funding for the Virginia Commission for the Arts. At stake is a state appropriation of about $4.4 million in each of the next two fiscal years to fund the arts agency, which distributes grants to hundreds of arts groups […]
February 25, 2010
The office of Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today said he is pleased New Mexico has been recognized as a national leader for its work to address children’s dental health needs but underscores that more progress is needed. A Pew Center on States report released this week […]
February 25, 2010
Charter schools receive less public funding per student than their district school peers, according to a report released today by the city’s Independent Budget Office. But the size of that disparity varies widely according to whether the charter school is housed in a city-owned building, the report said. Charter schools that are housed in public […]
February 25, 2010
The Lawrence School Board faces the daunting task of cutting $5 million in funding before next school year. Deciding where those cuts will come from remains a difficult decision and one that deserves careful deliberation. Although the Board needs to consider a wide range of viable options, closing neighborhood schools falls far outside that range. […]
February 25, 2010
COLUMBIA — Columbia Public Schools could use some good financial news. But as the saying goes, there’s good news and bad news. The Good News Despite three consecutive years of budget cuts by the district, things could have been worse: Federal st imulus money for Missouri supported key public school programs, including Title I preschool […]