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March 17, 2010
Education Finance – General
AZ---The Arizona Senate wrapped up a special session
to balance the budget on Tuesday, passing a bill to
ask voters whether to repeal an early-childhood education
and health program.
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NH---State spending for grants to prevent domestic violence,
promote family planning, give medical students a taxpayer-paid
stipend, offer legal advice to the poor and support
local education escaped the first round of cuts by House
budget writers Tuesday night.
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PA---"Those inequalities to me are inexcusable,"
Ackerman, Philadelphia's schools superintendent, said
in 2008. "My job is to make sure we level this
playing field so all children have equal resources."
Today, her administration will introduce weighted student
funding, which will shift how money is allocated to
schools and who decides how it's spent.
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March 16, 2010
School Funding/Litigation
TN---Metro will speak with other big-city school districts
about filing a lawsuit challenging the state's education
formula, but Nashville's top lawyer said Monday that
the odds of success are slim.
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Education Finance – General
CA---California's budget crisis could cost nearly 22,000
teachers their jobs this year.
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MS---A recent state survey indicates trouble for a number
of school districts as tax collections and state aid
shrink.
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NJ---Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday will propose slashing
aid to public schools by $820 million as part of a state
budget that will also make major cuts in aid to towns
and colleges, officials familiar with the plan said
today.
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RI---In a ruling that could alter the future of collective
bargaining for municipal workers in Rhode Island, a
Superior Court judge has upheld the East Providence
School Committee’s decision to unilaterally cut
teachers’ salaries and force a 20-percent contribution
to their health insurance costs last year.
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Federal Stimulus Issues
NJ---An Asbury Park Press investigation found that school
districts in Monmouth and Ocean counties used the special
aid to pay legal bills, expand non-special education
programs and pay benefits for non-special education
teachers.
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March 15, 2010
Education Finance – General
IL---Citing declining enrollments and slashed budgets
amid state government’s financial crisis, several
central Illinois school districts are considering consolidating.
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NJ---When classes let out at 3 p.m., 85 children in
a state-subsidized program at Linden’s School
No. 1 head down the hall for three more hours of reading,
math games, homework help and stepping lessons. But
the popular after-school program will end on Friday
after losing its state financing halfway through the
year, one of the first casualties in Gov. Christopher
J. Christie’s campaign to close a $2.2 billion
budget deficit in the current fiscal year.
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OK---Many rural schools are finding it hard to stay
afloat with sinking revenues from the state. Some are
annexing into larger districts, while others are awaiting
elections to determine their fate.
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SD---South Dakota’s public school districts won’t
be receiving an inflationary increase next year in their
per-student funding from state government and local
property taxes.
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VA---The General Assembly adopted a budget Sunday that
cuts hundreds of millions in spending on public schools
and health care.
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Other News
The Obama administration on Saturday called for a broad
overhaul of President George W. Bush’s No Child
Left Behind law, proposing to reshape divisive provisions
that encouraged instructors to teach to tests, narrowed
the curriculum, and labeled one in three American schools
as failing.
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