January 18, 2010
On Friday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other state officials signed California’s grand, ambitious, 550-page application for federal Race to the Top (RTTT) education funding. It came just a week after the governor submitted a budget plan for the coming year that’s so riddled with holes, misrepresentations and improbabilities that you’d never know they applied to […]
January 18, 2010
Parents’ frustration with the district’s handling of their children’s special education needs boiled over several times during a meeting with the school board chairman and superintendent Wednesday morning. Many attendees said the families who strongly advocate for their children — even wage legal battles on their behalf — are too often labeled as "problem parents" […]
January 18, 2010
The Democratic bosses of the state Legislature are playing with fire – and threatening to burn both New York’s children and the taxpayers in the process. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and state Senate conference boss John Sampson appeared willing Friday to forgo any shot at up to $700 million in federal education aid out of […]
January 18, 2010
More than 100 West and Middle Tennessee educators are in Jackson for a two-day assistive technology conference sponsored by Jackson-Madison County Schools and Lambuth University. The conference continues today in the Wilder Student Union. Assistive technology is a term used in the special education field to describe the tools used to help students develop communication […]
January 18, 2010
Local school administrators and unions put on their track shoes in December to figure out whether they were interested in applying for some brand-new federal funding that might actually take care of some of those unfunded mandates plaguing schools these days. Ohio’s been offered a piece of as much as $400 million by the federal […]
January 18, 2010
Legislation inspired by an Ocean City girl who overcame severe dyslexia has been signed into law in New Jersey. The measure creates a reading disabilities task force, which would help determine the best methods for diagnosing, treating and educating special needs students. The 13-member panel will include the state commissioners of education and human resources, […]
January 18, 2010
Ulster County Comptroller Elliott Auerbach predicts the county will be on the hook to reimburse 15 school districts a total of $22 million to cover unpaid property taxes for the current school year, an increase of nearly 6 percent from last year. Unpaid Ulster County school taxes have been on the rise, according to a […]
January 18, 2010
Anyone counting on an influx of federal Race to the Top money to help offset cuts to the school district’s teaching staff and programs next year will be disappointed. Superintendent Mark Conrad said Monday that the money – should the district receive it – could not be used to replace the dozens of teaching positions […]
January 18, 2010
Although education leaders have bemoaned what they call cuts in the governor’s K-12 education budget, state officials insist it continues funding at current levels. School district administrators say the budget proposal would deny them revenue they’ve been expecting, essentially amounting to a $1.5 billion cut. A spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week characterized the […]
January 18, 2010
Catskill Central School District is hoping to participate in a competitive federal funding program called Race To The Top, or RTTT, with Board of Education members approving a Memorandum of Understanding on the matter at Wednesday’s meeting. CSD Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kathleen Farrell told board members the plan requires “certain corresponding” activities by the […]