February 2, 2010
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget proposes to boost education spending 9% to advance its overhaul of federal school-funding policy that has emerged as a rare patch of common ground for the administration and some Republicans. At the same time, Mr. Obama is using his 2011 Education Department budget proposal to signal plans to revamp the […]
February 2, 2010
The House will vote Tuesday or Wednesday on a bill aimed at cushioning the blow of a 300-million-dollar school funding cut. Governor Daniels ordered the cuts in December, saying the state has cut everywhere else it can to offset a $1.8 billion drop in expected tax collection over the life of the two-year state budget. […]
February 2, 2010
President Obama’s 2011 budget proposes some major changes for federal education policy, including to the controversial No Child Left Behind initiative. Elementary and secondary schools would receive billions more in funding under his budget plan, but some experts are skeptical of whether the president’s reforms will take federal policy in the right direction — and […]
February 2, 2010
Mary Peitso and Ilene Allinger Candreva of Monterey County California, are both Moms of sons that need mental health services. Mary and Ilene joined forces with the non profit agency, Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) lawyer, Maggie Roberts in a compliance complaint against Monterey County Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA). The California Department of Education […]
February 2, 2010
HUNTINGTON — Two Cabell County schools will take part in a new state health initiative as part of a pilot program. Superintendent William Smith and Dee Cockrille, executive director for the Regional Educational Service Agency II, said the announcement that Cabell County had been chosen was made Tuesday in Charleston, a few hours before the […]
February 2, 2010
The White House budget plan submitted to Congress on Monday would provide millions of dollars to upgrade the region’s troubled Metro system, clean up the Chesapeake Bay and limit the spread of HIV and AIDS in the District. President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget proposal would extend tax cuts for 5.2 million families in Maryland, Virginia […]
February 2, 2010
There’s a lot of money to be had under the federal government’s Race to the Top program — $4.3 billion in competitive grants nationwide. Arizona is among more than 40 states vying for the federal dollars. The state’s application for phase one was turned in Jan. 11. School districts were required to sign agreements to […]
February 1, 2010
In Kansas’ special education community this year, the windfall of one school district has caused glares from others. The Legislature this week will begin debating changes to the formula that funds special education programs in the state in an attempt to curb explosive growth in the number of claims for "catastrophic" aid. Catastrophic aid payments […]
February 1, 2010
Amity Regional School District officials say it just doesn’t make sense: Why is the district being punished for having too many white autistic kids? And it’s the federal government’s punishment that is raising tempers: cutting the crucial funding used to eductate the austistic students. It’s a thorny issue for all sides. When one racial group […]
February 1, 2010
Tom Beebe has an idea for raising $850 million a year for Wisconsin schools, easing property taxes for homeowners and buying som e time to devise a long-term solution to the state’s Byzantine school funding system — raise the state’s 5 percent sales tax by 1 percentage point. It might not be politically viable. But […]