The Kansas City Star Reports…
on the Kansas City School District that is looking to stop the revolving door of changing principals.
on the Kansas City School District that is looking to stop the revolving door of changing principals.
on Robert Bobb saying that the budget deficit for the school district is now down to 243 million from over 400 million bucks.
The Detroit Free Press though reports on the local school district that for several months had used tax revenues intended for the Detroit Public Schools to make the city’s payroll and meet other financial obligations.
on the local school district that is not going to be spending any extra money next school year for Teach For America teachers. They are also looking at dumping 0ne-third of the 67 Teach For America teachers they already have.
They also report on some students making the most out of scholarship money for private schools.
on all former 8th grade students at Lang Middle School who are going to wind up having to retake the math portion of the TAKS exam due to a severe irregularity in the testing scores on this exam.
on the local school district approving an increase in the classroom size for the K-2 grade level.
on Vista Unified School District using federal stimulus money to save around 200 jobs.