Stories about paying the costs of education.
State senators scrapped a House plan to fund a small-scale preschool pilot in favor of expanding Indiana’s voluntary rating system for child care providers, but early education advocates say it won’t get the job done.
Students in some Indiana school corporations could see steadily increasing school lunch prices in years to come until their districts satisfy a new mandate from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, our colleagues at Indiana Public Media report. That’s because USDA officials say some schools are charging less than the $2.86 per meal they receive from the federal [...]
We do some back-of-the-napkin calculations and try to make the “indeterminable”… somewhat less indeterminable.
The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation faces a budget shortfall of $6 million due to property tax caps this year.
From The Elkhart Truth: Local schools are working to continue tightening their budgets, but some have already saved millions in energy costs through the last few years. Several local school districts have integrated an energy program that has teachers, maintenance staff and others chipping in by turning off computers, lights and other electronics, along with engaging [...]
State superintendent Glenda Ritz wants more money for full-day kindergarten programs before tackling pre-K.
With the constitutionality of vouchers decided, the Senate Education Committee Wednesday turns its attention to a House bill which would loosen requirements for families seeking vouchers.
Opponents of school vouchers had hoped to sway the state’s high court with arguments that the two-year-old program hurts public schools. But the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state’s voucher law is constitutional.
States whose spending on special education drops below the prior year’s level will still get hit with financial penalties, writes Alyson Klein for Education Week, but a tweak to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act will make the reduction in federal support temporary: Under maintenance of effort—or MOE, in wonky Washingtonspeak—states can’t cut their own [...]
Many Indiana Head Start programs will soon start cutting students from their rosters, a move many program directors hoped to avoid in the wake of automatic federal budget spending cuts.
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