News Briefs
A state board has voted unanimously to keep a nearly 40-year-old policy that guarantees cost-of-living increases to pension payments for retired Georgia teachers.
December 1, 2008
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ordered that a trial be held to decide whether the state can eliminate the special funding formula that has funneled billions in extra aid to its poorest urban school districts.
December 1, 2008
The Detroit school board last week approved a plan from a state review team to address the district’s financial problems.
November 10, 2008
The Pittsburgh school district’s “Pittsburgh Promise” program, which offers college scholarships for its graduates, has received a $6 million boost from the Heinz Endowments.
November 10, 2008
As part of an effort to promote the inclusion of financial education in state standards and required courses, the Washington-based nonprofit group Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and Citi, a global financial-services company, have mapped whether students are required to study financial education.
November 4, 2008
Education politics—and emotions—are heating up in Arizona in advance of a Nov. 4 vote on a plan that would unify 76 elementary and high school districts around the state into 27 K-12 districts.
October 13, 2008
The double whammy of soaring tuition and stagnant wages means too many Americans are seeing college slipping out of their grasp, warns the head of a biennial report card on postsecondary education.
December 3, 2008
A six-year investigation yields a call for remaking a system that researchers see as disconnected from student-learning priorities.
December 2, 2008
Public colleges and universities in Georgia, Idaho and Nebraska are also considering drastic cost-cutting measures to make up for losses in state revenue.
December 2, 2008
In state after state, ballooning deficits are hitting an education bureaucracy charged with carrying out a growing list of mandates.
December 2, 2008
A new report blames a range of factors for pushing the international goal of universal primary schooling off target.
November 25, 2008
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