Access News from May 17- May 21, 2010
Daily news stories about education funding
litigation, education funding policy, cost studies,
advocacy and No Child Left Behind.
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May
21, 2010
Education Finance—General
AZ---By passing Proposition 100 on Tuesday, Arizona
voters possibly saved hundreds of education jobs in
the East Valley.
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WY---Wyoming has enough money to give schools the resources
necessary to succeed, consultant Larry Picus told legislators
charged with evaluating the state's school funding formula.
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May 20, 2010
School Funding/Litigation
CA---A historic lawsuit was filed today against the
State of California requesting that the current education
finance system be declared unconstitutional and that
the state be required to establish a school finance
system that provides all students an equal opportunity
to meet the academic goals set by the State.
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Education Finance - General
US Education Secretary Arne Duncan warned yesterday
that as many as 300,000 teachers nationwide, including
4,000 teachers in Massachusetts, could lose their jobs
this year if Congress does not provide additional money
to aid struggling states and municipalities.
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MI---Gov. Jennifer Granholm has signed school pension
reform legislation she says will save more than $3 billion
for districts over the next decade.
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May 19, 2010
Education Finance – General
AZ---Arizona's struggle to drag itself out of the Great
Recession continues, but the challenge just got a lot
easier.
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Other News
President Barack Obama’s choice for his second
nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court—U.S. Solicitor
General Elena Kagan—is a nonjudge without the
record of dealing with education law issues typical
of nominees who have served on federal appeals courts.
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May 18, 2010
School Funding/Litigation
OH---A group of tax-funded charter schools is challenging
the authority of Ohio's largest for-profit school-management
company.
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Education Finance – General
MN---School budgets didn't get whacked during the 2010
legislative session, but plenty of money will be slow
to arrive.
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Federal Stimulus Issues
ID---After being denied its initial request for Race
to the Top funds, the Idaho State Department of Education
(SDOE) decided Friday not to seek money from the federal
education program in the second round of the application
process.
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WA---At least 226 of Washington state's 295 school districts
have signed on to the state's application for $250 million
in federal funding for education reform, state education
officials said Monday.
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May 17, 2010
Education
Finance – General
LA---The House Retirement Committee advanced a bill
Thursday that would change the benefit programs for
teachers and most state employees hired after 2010,
saving millions of dollars for state and local governments.
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MI---Before Friday, public schools were facing a $255
reduction in state aid for every student in their classrooms
in the school year that begins this fall. Districts
were anticipating deep cuts and widespread teacher layoffs.
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NY---Gov. Paterson plans to delay another $1.5 billion
in school aid to keep the cash-strapped state from going
broke next month.
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Federal Stimulus Issues
NC---When a team of senior state officials went to Washington
in March seeking more than $400 million from the Obama
administration’s Race to the Top education reform
program, members provided what critics call deceptive
answers to reviewers asking about charter schools. And
after the team returned, officials continued to show
little interest in expanding charter schools —
which were singled out by the Department of Education
as a linchpin of effective education reform.
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