education funding
Culture, Public Education
Omaha school district spends COVID-relief funds to open $6.6 million health care center in poor performing high school

A Nebraska high school is using federal COVID-relief dollars on a health care center despite the extreme academic needs of its students. Benson High School (BHS) in Omaha… Read More

January 20, 2023
Government
‘They are starving us to death,’ says union boss despite $53 billion ed budget

Texas teachers’ unions are outraged that education funding might go to any school but their own. The outrage followed Gov. Greg Abbott’s support for school choice in his… Read More

January 19, 2023
Government
Charter school organizations rally together in lawsuit against Department of Education in response to new grant criteria

A West Virginia charter school organization has joined a lawsuit opposing the Department of Education’s new criteria for federal grant funding of charter schools. The West Virginia Professional… Read More

October 27, 2022
Public Education
Schools spending federal relief money on employee bonuses

(The Center Square) – School districts across the country are spending federal COVID-19 relief money on bonuses to employees saying their employees earned it for their work during the pandemic. Read More

October 13, 2022
Government
Expert: Education funding without transparency a disservice to the system

(The Center Square) – One Delaware policy analyst says the education system in the state needs to be revamped, even as the state benefited from more than $866 million in… Read More

August 30, 2022
Public Education
Report: South Carolina inflation-adjusted K-12 spending rose 19% since 2002

(The Center Square) – South Carolina spends $14,310 per student in its K-12 public schools, an inflation-adjusted increase of 19% since 2002, according to a new study from… Read More

August 26, 2022
Public Education
NC lawmakers want state Supreme Court to dismiss intervenors in education funding case

(The Center Square) – Republican lawmakers involved in the decades-long Leandro school funding lawsuit want the state Supreme Court to dismiss a group of “plaintiff-intervenors” in the case ahead of… Read More

August 25, 2022
Government
Education funding measure fails to make Colorado ballot

(The Center Square) – A measure that proposed increasing Colorado public education funding by $980 million won’t appear on the November ballot after supporters failed to submit signatures by the… Read More

August 10, 2022
Public Education
NYC approves ‘get stuff done budget,’ including cuts in education as enrollment declines

(The Center Square) – New York City has a decrease in education funding for the coming fiscal year in its record $101 billion budget. The new year begins July 1;… Read More

June 15, 2022