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School Finance – Help with Some of the Terms

3 hours ago ago from Ames Coalition for Effective Schools

At a recent Budget Advisory Committee mtg , the district's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) provided additional information about school finance in general and started laying out the specifics of the financial condition the district finds itself in. Among the items committee members received was something called a School Finance Glossary . As work on the school district budget picks up, I thought it would be important to point folks to the ...

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14 hours ago ago from Get a Business Degree Cheap

Mühlenberg School Board is already feeling the budget crisis of 2010-11 School Board Mühlenberg could to avoid difficulties passage of a tax increase this year. The district will not break even with lower taxes of any increase to 0.75 million, according to preliminary figures released the school board on Wednesday by Diane E. Lucchese, district business manager. Don Sull Why I wrote The Upside of Turbulence You ...

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Briarcliff school board tackles its goals

14 hours ago ago from Northern Westchester

While the Board of Education in Briarcliff Manor is assembling its goals for  the 2009-2010 school year  this is a very good time  to share their draft document and give the community at large an opportunity to comment and  to share their own views. At last night's school board meeting copies of this draft were passed out to the roughly 200 people  who showed up for the standing-room session. (It is attached below and here is a link to ...

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Huge Dilemma for San Francisco Unified

5 hours ago ago from Off The Hypotenuse

We all know school districts across the nation are facing budget shortfalls for their property tax-funded curriculums. So when an budget item comes up worth $120,000, the question begs: Do you hire two new teachers, or institute a support program for LGBT students? San Francisco is about to decide just that. Tomorrow night the school board will vote on the "controversial" measure, which would budget money to hire a full-time staffer, at ...

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To vote or not to vote for Seattle’s school levies

10 hours ago ago from Queen Anne View

It's Special Election Day in King County, and according to the election office only 27.4 percent of the ballots dispersed countywide have been returned. For Seattle residents, two of the most talked-about items on the docket this year are the Capital and Operations levies for Seattle Public Schools (Propositions 1 and 2 on the ballot). Together the levies would secure $712.7 million for area schools, funding proponents say SPS needs for ...

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Private colleges looking to rein in financial aid

8 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Private colleges looking to rein in financial aid In the last year, the nation's private colleges have laid off staff, shelved construction projects, slashed sports teams and turned down thermostats to cut costs. But student financial aid has kept flowing. Now the weak economy is forcing some institutions to limit their generosity after many of them doubled or even tripled financial aid over the last decade to attract more applicants and ...

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Michelle Obama Kicking Off Anti-Obesity Drive With Oval Office Event

21 hours ago ago from Politics Daily

First Lady Michelle Obama launches the Obama administration's anti-childhood obesity drive Tuesday with a media blitz, including White House events and cabinet members fanning out to deliver speeches and also taking legislation to Capitol Hill. Mrs. Obama will for the first time enter the Oval Office on "official business" Tuesday morning when she sits with President Obama as he signs "a memorandum on childhood obesity" as part of the first ...

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Ellen Gustafson: Three Years on: FEEDing Globally... and Locally

8 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Three years ago, I was working as a U.S. Spokesperson for the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) and met Lauren Bush, a Princeton student, who designed a bag that would feed kids around the world in school. In February 2007, Lauren and I co-founded FEED Projects , a small (ahem, two-person) company with the mission of selling these "FEED" bags to support WFP's international school feeding efforts. School feeding is a simple and effective way ...

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