Education Funding

At Ed Money Watch, we discuss and analyze major issues affecting education funding. In our Friday News Roundup, we try to highlight interesting stories that might otherwise get overlooked. These stories emphasize how federal and state policy changes can affect local schools and districts.

Montana Education Officials Doubtful About Race to the Top Chances

Colorado Governor Unveils Plan to Close Budget Shortfalls

School Districts in Oklahoma Face Steep Cuts as Funding Streams Dry Up

New York Governor Proposes New Cuts as Deficit Climbs

Massachusetts Governor Makes New Cuts, Spares Education

At Ed Money Watch, we discuss and analyze major issues affecting education funding. In our Friday News Roundup, we try to highlight interesting stories that might otherwise get overlooked. These stories emphasize how federal and state policy changes can affect local schools and districts.

Arizona to Face School Funding Lawsuit

West Virginia Schools Turn to Stimulus Money to Fill Funding Gaps

Higher Education Targeted in Colorado Budget Cuts

At Ed Money Watch, we discuss and analyze major issues affecting education funding. In our Friday News Roundup, we try to highlight interesting stories that might otherwise get overlooked. These stories emphasize how federal and state policy changes can affect local schools and districts.

Mississippi Early Education Program Could Receive Federal Funding

Missouri Districts Grapple with How to Spend Stimulus Money

Governor Richardson Announces Plan to Turn Around New Mexico Dropout Problem

North Carolina Raises Taxes, Cuts Budget for Schools

At Ed Money Watch, we discuss and analyze major issues affecting education funding. In our Friday News Roundup, we try to highlight interesting stories that might otherwise get overlooked. These stories emphasize how federal and state policy changes can affect local schools and districts.

State Budget Includes Major Cuts to Ohio Grant Program

Pennsylvania Budget Deadlock Prevents Payment to Schools

Faculty Union in California Accepts Furloughs

New GAO Report: State Implementation of Career and Technical Education

At Ed Money Watch, we discuss and analyze major issues affecting education funding. In our Friday News Roundup, we try to highlight interesting stories that might otherwise get overlooked. These stories emphasize how federal and state policy changes can affect local schools and districts.

Indiana College Leaders Urge Lawmakers Not to Cut Higher Ed Budget

Louisiana Lawmakers Approve Spending Plan, End Session

Federal Stimulus Money Will Stave Off Cuts from Classrooms in Delaware

Massachusetts Schools Reconsider Full-Day Kindergarten

Community Colleges Unable to Meet Demand

Stimulus Law Provides Funds for Work-Study Jobs

The San Francisco Chronicle has more here on the ballot initiative, filed by lawyers working for the Califorina Teachers Assn., to raise the sales tax to create a new source of education funding. A proposal to raise taxes for new education funds at a time of budget scarcity won't make the union popular in Sacramento.

But there's a case to be made for such an initiative. Education is often blamed for the state's budget problems, because about half the state budget is devoted to schools. But the education part of the budget is growing more slowly than other items, especially health and social services programs. And if schools are the state's top priority, then their funding should be protected from the vagaries of the economy.

EDUCATION REFERENDUM: Watching local school referenda around the country -- and the hostility to any new spending even on education, the most popular government program -- suggests a political shift that may work against Democrats and against efforts all over the country to repair infrastructure. Here's a story that caught my eye: residents in Newton, Mass., a generally liberal Boston suburb, are seeking to place a referendum on the ballot to reverse the funding of a new school there.

IMPOUNDING MILE HIGH CARS: The Denver city council takes a step towards referring to voters a measure that would require police to impound the cars of unlicensed drivers. The measure is aimed at unauthorized immigrants.