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Education Funding Cuts

Kansas Cuts To Education Unconstitutional, Court Rules

stateline | Jim Malewitz | Posted 01.16.2013 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Center on the States that provides daily r...

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Amid Cuts, Philadelphia To Close 37 Public Schools

| Benjamin Herold | Posted 12.13.2012 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of a partnership between WHYY/NewsWorks and the Philadelphia Public School Notebook. Saying the struggling Philadel...

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Scott Walker Cuts To Teacher Benefits Offset Much Of School Aid Losses

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Jason Stein | Posted 01.12.2013 | Home
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MADISON -- Cuts to teachers' benefits championed by Gov. Scott Walker offset about two-thirds of the reductions to school revenue resulting from his b...

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Let Them Eat Opera: Pennsylvania Governor Corbett Gets Honored for Supporting the Arts While Slashing the Arts

Pamela Haag | Posted 08.09.2012 | Politics
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Giving a Lifetime Achievement Award for the arts to a governor who is slashing an educational foundation of the arts is one small, but provocative, example of the fantastical cognitive dissonance in politics today.

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School District Considers Shutting Down Every Other Monday

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 04.19.2012 | Business
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Snow days are so passé. Now it's all about budget cut days. Yes, faced with budget woes, the Burnsville School district is considering giving its ...

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Seattle High School Students Stage Walkout To Protest Education Cuts (PHOTOS)

Posted 12.16.2011 | Home
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Hundreds of students from five Seattle-area high schools walked out of classes Wednesday to protest Washington state's cuts to education funding. T...

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Education Funding In Most States Below Pre-Recession Levels

The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 08.08.2012 | Home
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Most states have cut state funding for schools this year, and a majority of states are funding K-12 education at levels lower than before the recessio...

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School: It's Way More Boring Than When You Were There

Salon | Daniel Denvir | Posted 11.15.2011 | Home
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New studies show that the disappearance of art, music and even recess is having a devastating effect on kids Forty-nine million or so American chil...

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Rick Perry 'Full Of Contradictions' Say Texas Teachers

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.09.2012 | Home
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Texas students and teachers went back to school Monday, 10 days after the man they cite as the cause of their schools' funding-related woes announced ...

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Education Loses In Minn. Government Shutdown Compromise

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.17.2011 | Home
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On Monday afternoon, highway cars and intense security surrounded Minnesota's capitol building, where only officials, legislators and their aides were...

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Lawsuit, Teacher Layoffs Follow Wisconsin Budget Signing

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.30.2011 | Home
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Just days after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed the state's budget with massive cuts to education funding, Wisconsin's teachers are on the chop...

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New Detroit Public Schools Budget Cuts Teacher Pay, Non-Teaching Services

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.23.2011 | Home
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This story has been updated. Detroit Public Schools officials released the district's proposed 2012 budget Thursday, a plan rife with cuts and chan...

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