Familias Unidas Por La Educación sued El Paso Independent School District in federal court, claiming it closed three elementary schools Latino neighborhoods, put no bond money toward facilities in these neighborhoods but put all of it into whiter neighborhoods’ schools.
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The coronavirus pandemic and California’s shattered finances have injected urgency into an initiative that qualified for the November ballot Friday which — if passed — would reform the state’s landmark property tax code to raise billions for cash-strapped schools and counties.
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Facing a possible $54 billion deficit caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and California’s response to it, Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed a 19% cut to K-12 education that school districts up and down the state are already warning will be impossible to shoulder.
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In a 150-page opinion Friday, a Delaware chancellor rapped state officials for skimping on public school funding by relying on property tax values that are more than 30 years old.
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With an outdated prize payout scheme and lack of oversight, the California Lottery flouted education funding laws and owes public schools $36 million, according to an audit released Tuesday.
Read moreThe Santa Rita and Salinas Union School Districts sued the City of Salinas, claiming its approval of a 16,000-resident development project will damage the environment and lacks adequate funding for schools that will need to absorb the new students, in Monterey County Court.
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Families challenging a Maine law that denies public funding for religious schools faced a highly skeptical audience today at the First Circuit.
Read moreFormer Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden – and his educator wife – made their pitch Sunday to New York City teachers at the United Federation of Teachers’ annual Teacher Union Day.
Read moreCalifornia voters will soon decide whether to provide outdated schools and universities with a $15 billion facelift under legislation signed Monday by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Read moreThe Duval County (Fla.) School Board sued Jacksonville in Duval County Court, for refusing to put a school capital surtax on the ballot, to remedy deplorable conditions in “schools that were built long ago to segregate African-American children (and) are still in use.”
Read moreLawmakers in West Virginia considered another education omnibus bill Monday, amid nearly two years of strikes by angry teachers in the state demanding pay raises and a Republican-led state Senate intent on privatizing education across the state.
Read moreThe Kansas Supreme Court unanimously ruled Friday that the state has met its obligation to adequately fund public schools, but will retain jurisdiction over the 9-year-old case to ensure state lawmakers carry out scheduled funding in the future.
Read moreA parcel tax that would have generated millions of dollars for Los Angeles schools failed to get enough votes Tuesday, a devastating blow to union leaders and school officials who said the funding would have gone to reduce class sizes and hire more staff.
Read moreTens of thousands of teachers across Oregon walked off the job Wednesday to demand more money for schools, holding signs and wearing red shirts that have become synonymous with a nationwide movement pushing lawmakers to better fund education.
Read moreThe Montana Supreme Court invalidated the state’s tuition tax credit on Wednesday ending a program that allowed taxpayers to fund scholarships for private schools, most of which are religious-based.
Read moreKansas lawmakers must find more funding for K-12 schools but have until June 2019 to do it, avoiding the risk of school closures, according to Monday’s state Supreme Court ruling.
Read moreAfter Kansas commissioned a study that found Kansas schools need up to $2 billion more in funding, the Kansas Supreme Court on Tuesday pressed state lawmakers on why they only increased education funding by a fraction of that amount.
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