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 12, 2010
After hundreds of hours of deliberation with staff, Superintendent Stephen Mills recently presented what he called a living, breathing thing: His recommendation for cuts in the proposed school budget, including multiple teacher layoffs. At the joint Acton Public Schools and Acton-Boxborough Regional School Committee meeting Jan. 7, Mills detailed 16 faculty and staff members he […]
January 12, 2010
The local school governing board took its next-to-last step Monday night in its process of deciding whether or not to close Daytona Middle School next fall. The Lake Havasu Unified School District governing board listened to student, teacher, and parent comments during a public meeting regarding the possibility. “Your presence here shows you care about […]
January 12, 2010
As few as nine Orange County school districts have committed to implement sweeping reforms championed under President Obama’s federal Race to the Top grant program for schools, leaving up to 19 ineligible to receive the potentially millions of federal stimulus dollars that California is seeking. &l t;p>School districts across the state were required to commit […]
January 12, 2010
Funding cuts and a loss of students is forcing one local school district to make a tough decision. The Athens school district in Calhoun County is looking to close one of its three schools. On Monday night the superintendent made his recommendation on which building should be shut down. Newschannel 3 was at that meeting. […]
January 12, 2010
Up to nine schools in Greeley-Evans School District 6 could be combined and reorganized in an attempt to save as much as $2 million in the face of mounting state funding cuts. District officials are considering a draft plan that would combine most students at Cameron and Jefferson elementary schools into a new, larger elementary […]
January 12, 2010
Livingston County school districts had a rocky year in 2009, with money woes and controversy — fr om administrators being fired to recall campaigns. Some districts had more drama than others, but all had to face tough budget decisions as a result of drastic declines in student enrollment and proposed state funding cuts that many […]
January 12, 2010
Educators tend to think in terms of school years rather than calendar years, but as 2010 dawns most expect 12 months of challenges greater than they’ve faced in a while. Things already were getting bad in 2009 when the state warned school districts not to budget $110 million in school funding because it probably would […]
January 12, 2010
Bentonville superintendent Gary Compton and Robert Maranto of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas recently wrote in this newspaper that to make Arkansas public schools great three things were necessary: a larger and better pool of teachers, less red tape and paperwork, and a better system of special education. Concerning the […]