January 15, 2010
The amount of red ink that Pleasanton is facing for next year’s school budget more than doubled in two days, to $6.9 million, after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave his budget me ssage Jan. 8. The school administration early last week sent the board a list of recommended cuts based on an estimate then of […]
January 15, 2010
As the deadline nears for Pennsylvania to bid for a $400 million piece of a f ederal competitive education grant, school boards — all wanting a piece of the pie — faced their own deadline Wednesday. School boards had to sign agreements with the state, promising to fulfill a number of reforms that some critics […]
January 15, 2010
Gov. Steve Beshear used more federal stimulus funds, siphoned money from small state accounts and cut spending 3 percent for lower priority state agencies to fill a $108 million budget gap in the current state budget. Beshear’s plan, announced Monday, at a news conference in the Capitol, won’t cut public school funding or lay off […]
January 14, 2010
The Manchester School Board approved the Manchester School District’s $10,758,370 budget — resulting in a 6.2 percent decrease from last year’s $11,367,202 budget and .4 percent decrease to the elementary budget. Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union Superintendent Daniel French said he was pleased with the budget. "I feel really good about the elementary budget being a decrease," […]
January 14, 2010
Gov. Jim Gibbons last week proposed a program to eliminate collective bargaining by local government workers and school district employees, abolish the public’s right to elect the state board of education in favor of a politically appointed board, increase the number of children in classrooms, provide public funding for private school tuition, and make the […]
January 14, 2010
The Springfield School District introduced a $46.2 million preliminary general fund budget for 2010-2011 in a presentation Tuesday. The budget includes a 6.82 percent increase in the local property tax, far above the cap allowed under Act 1, although district Business Administrator Victor Orlando said it was only a preliminary figure and would likely come […]
January 14, 2010
Fairfax County leaders are threatening to sue Virginia if the state follows a budget stopgap plan from outgoing Gov. Tim Kaine that they say would further cripple school budgets. At their first meeting of the year Tuesday, county supervisors pledged to push Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell to kill the provision that would freeze a school funding […]
January 14, 2010
Although Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently said he won’t make additional cuts to education, school officials in Butte County learned Tuesday night that the pressure felt locally is far from over. The governor’s recent budget proposals were the topic of a presentation to county and local district officials by Kevin Bultema, Butte County Office of Education […]
January 14, 2010
The financial outlook for Colorado schools continues to worsen, St. Vrain Valley School District officials said Wednesday night. “The game’s changing every day,” St. Vrain chief financial officer Terry Schueler told the Board of Education. When the state allocated school funding for this fiscal year, it directed districts to reserve 1.9 percent, which the state […]
January 14, 2010
In a move that could save the district $360,000, school administration has proposed cutting a contained gifted program in fifth and sixth grade and replacing it with advanced classes open to other students. Six teacher positions in the intermediate school would also be cut as part of the move. The change, outlined in the district’s […]