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Economy Series: Education funding continues to slide
Oakland :: CA :: USA | 18 days ago
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Dan Forbess works with freshman Joshawa Delgado recently in the wood shop at Oakland High School. Forbess is superintendent at both the Oakland and the North Douglas School District. Due to funding shortfalls this year, he's teaching industrial arts,...
Tags: Dan Forbess, Oakland High School, Oakland School District, Douglas County, North Douglas School District, schools district, douglas schools, Donna Matovich, schools funding, middle schools, Oakland, Oakland California, Charter school, Education
State's school funding process is failing
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility On both counts, California's method of financing its schools gets a big fat F. On a per-pupil basis, our schools are among the most poorly funded in the country , and no one can be sure that the money they do get serves its purpose. Ask those who have...
Tags: California School Boards Assn, schools funding, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ted Mitchell, schools district, funding process, Eric Hanushek, Sacramento, California Proposition 13, Political career of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Year of birth missing, Education
Next governor likely to face school finance problems
Houston :: AK :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility With budget problems mounting for many Texas school districts, the next governor is likely to inherit a funding system that experts say has become a legal and financial quagmire. As the state's top executive officer, the governor will guide the $35 billion...
Tags: Texas State Teachers Association, Texas Education Agency, schools district, schools funding, schools financed, business tax, texas schools, Houston, Robin Hood plan, Rick Perry, Texas, Taxation in the United States, Education
Mich. regulator wants more info on proposed mine
Lansing :: MI :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Michigan's chief environmental regulator wants more information about a rocky outcrop in Marquette County that could affect plans for a nickel and copper mine. Steven Chester, director of the Department of Environmental Quality, on Friday asked Administrative...
Tags: Michigan House, schools funding
Agency heads warn of possible budget impact of ballot proposal
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Director Gary Ridley detailed the potential effect of a 20-percent cut in funding as a result of a ballot proposal that would require increasing public school funding by about $850 million. House Appropriations and Budget Committee. Agency heads were...
Tags: schools funding, agency heads, Oklahoma City
School funding stalls Calif. budget negotiations
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sounded an optimistic note Thursday about negotiations aimed at solving California's $26 billion budget deficit, a day after Democratic lawmakers said talks had stalled over education funding. At issue is how to repay schools...
Tags: California, Darrell Steinberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, schools funding, Senate, budgeting deals, Legislature, Sacramento
State budget battle resumes today
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility The next round in the prolonged state budget battle resumes today, as lawmakers are expected to reconvene at the Capitol at the urging of Gov. Jan Brewer, who has called them into special session. Brewer last week vetoed pieces of the state budget and...
Missouri high court hears school funding challenge
Jefferson City :: MO :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility He pointed to similar phrases in other state constitutions, including Texas, where that state's Supreme Court struck down a property-tax-based school funding method in 2005.The Texas high court, however, found that its system did meet constitutional requirements...
Tags: Missouri Supreme Court, schools funding, courts hearing, supreme courts
NBC 17 Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill (WNCN): Educators To Protest Cuts To Public School Funding
Raleigh :: NC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility The North Carolina Association of Educators is sponsoring a rally to protest pay cuts and potential threats to public school funding...President Sheri Strickland says the organization wants to let elected leaders know that tough economic times will turn...
Survey finds California school funding dilemma
Oakland :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Those polled say they want education spared from state budget cuts, but an increasing number of people are less willing to pay more taxes to make up for the shortfall. PM PDT, April 29, 2009 "I think that the public's really concerned about what they're...
Tags: UC San Diego, UC Board of Regents, Mark Yudof, fees increase, The University of California, students fees, schools funding, tax credits
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