Access News from January 11- January 15,
2010
Daily news stories about education funding
litigation, education funding policy, cost studies,
advocacy and No Child Left Behind.
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January
15, 2010
Education Finance – General
CO---Colorado lawmakers are moving quickly to take back
$110 million in funding from schools because of the
recession.
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MS---Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has let key lawmakers
know how he proposes to cut $413 million from the state's
$5 billion budget, and some of them are worried that
it cuts too deeply in the wrong places. Lawmakers say
the Republican governor has given key House members
a list of the programs he wants to cut by nearly 10
percent, including most of K-12 public education, universities
and community colleges.
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NY---The state will release $750 million in aid to schools
and local governments today that was withheld last month
because of the state's fiscal woes, Gov. David Paterson
said Thursday.
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Federal Stimulus Issues
MA---Governor Deval Patrick predicted last night that
the Legislature’s approval of a sweeping education
bill would bring to an end a chronic achievement gap
between students of different socioeconomic backgrounds
and would probably enhance the state’s chances
of receiving $250 million in new federal stimulus money.
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January 14, 2010
Education Finance – General
AR---The state’s Public School Fund must cut programs,
and may eliminate others, in fiscal 2011 because of
revenue shortfalls and dwindling reserves, Education
Commissioner Tom Kimbrell said Wednesday.
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MN---A cash flow crunch could have Pawlenty Administration
officials holding back school payments this spring
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Federal Stimulus Issues
IA---A fast-track plan to expand charter schools and
turn around troubled public schools received approval
Wednesday by the Iowa Senate, despite criticism that
the effort is more about money than reform.
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KY---A measure that officials hope will help Kentucky
win federal money to improve low-performing middle and
high schools won final approval from the General Assembly
Wednesday and is expected to be signed by Gov. Steve
Beshear by the end of the week.
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January 13, 2010
Education Finance – General
MA---School administrators across the state are crafting
bleak budgets for the next school year and warning of
steep cutbacks, including teacher layoffs, to cope with
a probable sharp drop in funding from Beacon Hill and
dwindling federal stimulus money.
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Federal Stimulus Issues
KY, MA, MI, NY and TN---States are facing a Jan. 19
deadline to apply for their share of $4.35 billion in
federal education grants. Some — such as Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Michigan, New York and Tennessee —
are cutting it awfully close.
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TX---Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce Wednesday
that Texas will not compete for a highly coveted piece
of the $4 billion federal education grant program known
as Race to the Top, state officials say.
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January
12, 2010
School Funding/Litigation
KS---Lawyers for a coalition of 74 Kansas school districts
asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to reopen a
2006 ruling on funding of public schools to determine
if the law and spending cuts are constitutional.
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Education Finance – General
CO---Teacher quality will be the top education policy
issue of the 2010 legislative session, but looming cuts
in state K-12 support and proposed changes in teacher
and public employee pensions will cast long shadows
over the deliberations.
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GA---Georgia schools are bracing for another tough year
of furloughs, layoffs and crowded classes as state lawmakers
reconvene under the Gold Dome for the 2010 legislative
session.
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IA---Gov. Chet Culver today proposed using at least
$100 million in state surplus reserves yet this fiscal
year to restore cuts made to K-12 public schools and
to give them the 2 percent boost in state aid they were
promised in fiscal 2011.
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ID---Public schools will need greater flexibility —
including the ability to modify teacher contracts —
to weather a proposed $27 million midyear cut, the Idaho
Department of Education said.
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LA---Louisiana's education department has announced
more than $16 million in budget cuts for programs in
elementary and secondary schools.
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TX---The $91.4 billion Teacher Retirement System of
Texas, the seventh-largest U.S. public pension fund,
saw its funding decline to the lowest point since 1987
as investment losses diminished assets, a state audit
says.
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Federal Stimulus Issues
CA---Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed and submitted
the last application for the State Fiscal Stabilization
Fund, which could mean another $490 million in federal
funds for schools. About $324 million would be available
to k-12 schools, while the rest would go to community
colleges and state universities, officials said.
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NY--- The Race to the Top has become a race against
the clock in the state Legislature.
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OH---More than half of the state's 613 school districts
apparently will pass on a shot at some of the $400 million
Ohio is seeking in federal Race to the Top education
funding
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