When America’s public school system reopened in January 2021 after last year’s holidays, only 32% of children attended full-time five days a week – the majority of them from middle- and upper-income school districts, who mostly went to school visited white families. “We owe it to our students – especially students in underserved communities and […]
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, more than a dozen states made changes to education funding in the past year. “We have seen many organizations say ‘the weighted student finance model is the way to go’. The other reason we are really driven by it is that we really like the idea of […]
The largely uniform education system that we have created in Ireland is not easily suited for children who are in special classes or schools or who need special preschool places and early intervention. The only thing the state can offer them is home tuition as an “interim plan” that is full of problems and almost […]
Governor John Bel Edwards has signed a bill that will reorganize the special education district that includes the Louisiana School for the Deaf and the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired in Baton Rouge. The measure, House Bill 253, cleared the Senate 37-0 and the House 100-0. It was sponsored by Rep. Scott McKnight, R-Baton […]
The day after negotiations on the new two-year state budget ended, the Ohio House version of a revision of public school funding won. The Draft Budget Conference Committee, made up of members from both houses of the Ohio Legislature, reverted to the Fair School Funding Plan after the Senate tried to create its own funding […]
School buses for Sandusky City Schools. Photo from the Sandusky City Schools website. The day after negotiations on the new two-year state budget ended, the Ohio House version of a revision of public school funding won. The Draft Budget Conference Committee, made up of members from both houses of the Ohio Legislature, reverted to the […]
