Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm signed into law yesterday, a sweeping five-bill legislative package reforming Michigan’s education system and entering the state into competition for up to $400 million in federal Recovery Act funds through the Race to the Top initiative. The reforms allow the state to intervene in low performing schools and even close some low [...]
According to an annual forecast of top policy issues facing state legislatures, budget gaps and revenue shortfalls will continue its three-year reign atop the docket. The National Conference of State Legislatures’ says the states’ fiscal problems are “enormous, appalling and, unfortunately, at least two years away from being over.”
The New York Department of Education recently completed a new call center to handle inquiries regarding enrollment, transportation and other educational topics. Assisting in the design and launch of the enhanced 311 system was Accenture, who helped implement new software and data integration. “This enhanced 311 system for parents and guardians with children in public schools [...]
From periodic student assessments, to hourly attendance, K-12 schools generate a tremendous amount of raw data, yet many schools rarely use that data to its fullest potential, Tyler Technologies’ Mark Rigsby said in an interview with CivSource last week. Last month, the Obama administration announced a $4.3 billion education reform initiative called Race to the Top. [...]
IBM says, it has positioned itself to help find the relevant needles in the haystack. The company has invested over $12 billion, grown a crop of 4,000 dedicated consultants and made over 2,000 business partnerships to develop an expertise in analytics and business intelligence. The results of these strategic moves is starting to play out [...]
Nearly $70 billion in education funding for K-12 and higher education has been obligated to states around the country since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed in February. The largest portion of that money went to states in the form of emergency education funding, as State Fiscal Stabilization Funds (SFSF) and Student Financial [...]
