education spending Archives

Bleak outlook for education spending under sequestration

September 24, 2012September 21, 2012 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor

As schools face ever-increasing budget dilemmas, education stakeholders are desperately hoping to avoid sequestration, or across-the-board cuts, to domestic spending next year—cuts that could devastate education programs and…

District Management

Debt-ceiling bill forces cuts to education spending

August 3, 2011August 2, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

After weeks of political posturing, the agreement reached by lawmakers to raise the nation’s debt ceiling contains some good news for low-income college students—and bad news for other…

Teaching Trends

Schools struggle to recover amid years of cuts

May 26, 2011May 26, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

The Great Recession that began in late 2007 set in motion a growing budget crisis for American public schools that is far from over.

District Management

Obama to GOP: Don’t cut education spending

March 9, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

Placing a limit on his own willingness to slice spending, President Barack Obama issued a not-too-veiled warning at Republican budget cutters Tuesday and characterized any reductions in money…

District Management

Obama’s ed budget a tough sell on Capitol Hill

February 17, 2011February 17, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

President Barack Obama's budget request for increased education spending is likely to face a tough fight against Republicans — and even if ends up being approved, the extra…

District Management

If education were a business…

January 27, 2011January 24, 2011 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

More than a million students are enrolled in highly inefficient districts, says the report.

A controversial new study published by the Center for American Progress analyzes K-12 school districts based on their productivity: the academic achievement a district produces relative to its…

Teaching & Learning

Is the golden age of education spending finally over?

December 9, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

As America starts to grapple with its out-of-control spending habits, we as a nation really should reckon with our education costs, says Andrew Rotherham for Time.

Bleak outlook for education spending under sequestration

Debt-ceiling bill forces cuts to education spending

Schools struggle to recover amid years of cuts

Obama to GOP: Don’t cut education spending

Obama’s ed budget a tough sell on Capitol Hill

If education were a business…

Is the golden age of education spending finally over?

With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts

Fighting chronic absenteeism with data-driven insights–and a little fun, too

Books Are Fun and Ignite Reading Deliver Hundreds of Books to Oakland Students at Highland Community School

GEAR UP South Carolina Partners with National Math and Science Initiative to Expand High-Quality STEM Professional Development Across Seven School Districts

Ohio District Awarded CoSN Trusted Learning Environment Mini Seal for Student Data Privacy Practices

Otus Launches AI Advisory Board to Bring Voices of K-12 Leaders to the Forefront of Innovation

Kenneth C. Griffin Donates $2 Million to Nonprofit Achieve Miami’s Teacher Accelerator Program to Strengthen South Florida’s Teacher Pipeline

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