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Outlook bleak for next year's state budget
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
By Laura Olson, Pittsburgh
HARRISBURG -- The
state's budget secretary has outlined a bleak picture for the upcoming fiscal
year, projecting during a briefing today that the commonwealth will be searching
for at least $750 million in cuts to balance next year's spending plan
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11354/1198166-100.stm#ixzz1h70Nb6eC
Philadelphia
By Susan Snyder, Inquirer Staff
Writer, Posted: Wed, Dec. 21, 2011 , 3:01
AM
Philadelphia 's new education compact among
the School District , city, state, and two
charter school coalitions has attracted the attention of the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, which pledged $100,000 in funding and a chance at millions
more.
Under the compact, all parties
said they would work to set common academic standards and then expand schools
that meet them and close those that do not, whether they are charter schools,
district schools or something else. The project also is designed to reduce
tension between the city's 80 charter schools and the district.
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20111221_Philadelphia_s_collaborative_school_effort_wins_a_grant.html
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This post was written by
my colleague Emma Brown, and it first appearedon her
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with Lyndsey Layton, about the growing influence of K12 Inc. of Herndon, the
country’s largest provider of full-time public virtual schools.
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