Education Budgets
LANSING, Mich. - Michigan lawmakers wrapped up the final key pieces of the next state budget on Wednesday, without tax increases and with spending cuts in many programs other than aid to public schools.
NEW YORK - President Barack Obama's call for a longer school day and year for America's kids echoes a similar call he made a year ago to little effect, illustrating just how deeply entrenched the traditional school calendar is and how little power the federal government has to change it.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri could be spending an additional $21 million on public schools if lawmakers had followed the wishes of voters when distributing new casino revenues, Auditor Susan Montee said Thursday.
LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska lawmakers have been told that the fat has been cut and the next step is to trim and eliminate programs in the Department of Education to help close a large state-budget gap.
LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Jennifer Granholm plans to lay out a revised spending plan for lawmakers Wednesday and said she hopes they work quickly to get the budget in place.
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- Minority student activists protest education cuts
- Several states stay off charter-school bandwagon
- Kan. Senate approves $13.6B budget
- Some NJ students walk out of class to protest cuts
- NJ voters reject 59 percent of school budgets
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- Mo. Senate panel cuts $500M from proposed budget
- Megan Fox protests school budget cuts with comedy
- Bleak budgets force schools to consider closure
- Mass school closures approved in Kansas City, Mo.
- Kansas City, Mo., school board to vote on closures
- Schools face big budget holes as stimulus runs out
- Private colleges looking to rein in financial aid
- Missouri budget shortfall could prompt school cuts
- LSU faculty, students protest against budget cuts
- Virginia educators consider options to cut budgets
- Iowa panel backs plan to limit school tax hikes
- Perry: Texas won't seek federal education funding
- Committee advances Ark. prisons, schools budgets
- Committee advances proposed Ark. schools budget
- Colo. lawmakers to tackle education, budget gap
- Iowa gov seeks more school spending during speech
- Chief: Idaho schools need more budget flexibility
- Ariz. union to launch challenge to budget law anew
- Schwarzenegger urges fiscal reform in final year
- Gov. Schwarzenegger in denial about final year
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