Stories about paying the costs of education.
The federal government won’t shut down on March 27 — that’s the good news. But the continuing resolution the House approved Thursday locks in many of the education-related sequestration cuts for the duration of the fiscal year. From Ed Money Watch: Policymakers opted not to restore funding to key programs like Title I grants for [...]
Backers of a proposal to expand Indiana’s school voucher program fielded some tough questions during the a Senate Education Committee hearing Wednesday afternoon.
Former Gov. Mitch Daniels continues to trim Purdue University’s budget after announcing a tuition freeze earlier this month. Now school officials say Purdue will change its lobbying strategy in Washington, D.C.
Opponents of school vouchers rallied at the statehouse Tuesday in advance of a vote to expand Indiana’s Choice Scholarship program. From Indiana Public Broadcasting‘s Brandon Smith: Fort Wayne Community Schools is the largest school district in the state. School board president Mark GiaQuinta says that gives Fort Wayne the responsibility to lead the way for public [...]
A proposed preschool program would cost $6,800 per student enrolled — an amount that Indiana Sen. Jean Leising says “struck [her] as high for preschool.”
While most programs receiving federal education dollars won’t feel the impacts of sequestration cuts until next school year, there are two exceptions: Head Start programming — we’ve been reporting on that — and military education. In the Vincennes Sun-Commercial, Annie McMindes writes: Vincennes University will have fewer active-duty servicemen taking classes as a result of the [...]
Head Start program directors are looking for ways to reduce expenses that don’t involve cutting kids from the program even as automatic federal spending cuts reduce their budgets by 5 percent.
Could the feds “have covered the tuition bill of every student at every public college in the country”? The Atlantic explains.
Indiana lawmakers are considering changes to a state law that currently requires public school districts to sell vacant buildings to charter operators for $1. It’s one of the education stories we’re keeping an eye on in the coming week, as a bill amending those guidelines is headed for a vote in the Senate Education Committee on [...]
Voters in seven Indiana communities will go to the polls in May to decide whether they’ll raise their own property taxes to raise money for schools. Four districts are asking voters for more operating dollars. The other three want voters’ help in funding construction or renovation projects. Below is a full list of districts seeking to [...]
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