January 14, 2010
States and school districts across the nation are working feverishly to position themselves to be winners of the federal Department of Education’s country-wide competition for funding. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has proudly crafted and mark eted his “Race To The Top” (RTTT) contest as the best strategy for urging states to turn disasters into […]
January 14, 2010
At a Parent Advisory Committee meeting Tuesday night at Ridgeview Elementary School, a teacher asked some of the parents in attendance if she could use some money rasied by the school to buy her class whiteboards to work on math problems at their desks. For Heidi Meats, mother of two Ridgeview students, the decision was […]
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 13, 2010
A new tuition-based program in the public school district will provide children some of the benefits of a full-day kindergarten without the need to seek often-elusive voter approval, school officials said. The new Kindergarten Enrichment Program, open to students enrolled in the district’s half-day kindergarten, will provide transportation to and from the students’ kindergarten class […]
January 13, 2010
Memphis City Schools will have to wait to get millions of dollars that the City Council said it would give the district for the current year. The council voted 8-3 Tuesday to delay paying the $50 million that it promised the school system until there is a resolut ion to the ongoing litigation over school […]
January 13, 2010
Nine local school districts have signed on to the state’s application for Race to the Top, an education reform grant that Oregon is seeking from the federal economic stimulus package. They’re among 112 school districts in Oregon that agreed to implement reform initiatives — that range from developing a statewide education data portal to turning […]
January 13, 2010
Metro schools face a $35 million budget shortfall next year, and money can’t be pulled from savings to make up the difference. Board members Tuesday explained the district’s financial woes at the first of several meetings to create the 2010-11 budget. Based on current estimates, the school district will have to absorb $6 million in […]
January 13, 2010
Cutting junior varsity sports, implementing a four-day school week and eliminating summer school were all options presented Tuesday as ways to fill a $2.7 million budget deficit predicted for Central Union High School District next year. The school board voted unanimously to schedule a special budget study session later in the month to discuss what […]
January 13, 2010
A large group of Kernville Union School District teachers and staff turned out for the Jan. 5 board meeting. They came to hear Superintendent Robin Shive speak about additional budget cuts that may be looming in the near future. Shive shared her new mantra for the 2010-2011 school year, “Keep the cuts far, far away […]