The Education Trust-Tennessee is excited to announce Southerners for Fair School Funding, a new initiative that will help advocates across the South lead meaningful change in how public schools are funded in their state. States in the South continue to lag behind in funding of public education, relegating its students to some of the most underfunded and inequitably funded schools in the nation. Southern progress is national progress, learn more and join the movement to make school funding fairer in the South. #FundSouthernSchools Learn more at https://edtru.st/sfsf
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EMORY, Va. (WJHL) High school students and school employees in Southwest Virginia will now have the ability to make their way to the Emory & Henry College education department thanks to two new grants from the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE). Both grants are part of a new Grow Your Own program, a model []
Montgomery Public Schools officials want to make sure residents understand the impact that a property tax up for renewal will have on both MPS and Pike Road Schools.
Both the premier and the finance minister have ruled out increasing tuition fees in Ontario. The province is, however, considering financial help for post-secondary institutions.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he has completely ruled out tuition fee increases as a way to ease financial struggles faced by the province’s colleges and universities.
Tuesdays election has dozens of propositions and measures on the ballot. Those include bonds and levies for school and library funding as well as redistricting.
TCPID Successful Bid for Funding in PATH 4 Phase 2 Speakers:Sadbh Feehan (Executive Officer, TCPID); Des Aston (National &Schools Coordinator, TCPID); Minist…
A wallaby escaped from its owner’s home in Tennessee and hopped across a college campus before being recaptured.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants state lawmakers to prioritize increased funding to education in this year’s state budget. Whitmer’s budget proposal unveiled Wednesday followed a State of the State address last month when she announced initiatives to provide free community college for all high school students and free preschool for 4-year-olds.
The Biden-Harris administration recently announced a whopping $25 million in grants for career-connected high schools, and two of those happen to be Kentucky school districts.
ETSD’s business administrator expects schools to get at least a 3% increase from the state, but at this time, the school district was facing a $2.27 million deficit.
But just maintaining Portland Public Schools’ current programming would require an 11% tax increase, Superintendent Ryan Scallon says.