Editor's note: The amount spent on NWEA MAP testing has been corrected in this story. Ann Arbor school administrators hosted their second and final budget forum Monday to gather questions and collect advice from the community. The school board will meet Wednesday to deliberate on proposals to cut at least ...
Ann Arbor school board members are preparing for a hearty discussion on the budget and balanced calendar proposal at their meeting Wednesday night.
Merging schools, cutting out substitutes, or having parents provide more classroom supplies were some of the suggestions made Thursday at an Ann Arbor Public Schools budget forum. Nearly 60 people attended the open forum at Huron High School to help AAPS administrators brainstorm money-saving ideas to help trim $14 million ...
Public forums - including one on Thursday - are being held earlier this year so they can influence the draft budget, the district says.
Willow Run Community Schools is expected to operate with a $411,000 surplus to help pay off the district's debt in 2011-12, after the school board passed a budget Thursday that includes a 10 percent cut in compensation for all employees. The district had to fill a $1.169 million budget deficit ...
UPDATE 11:59 a.m. June 25: Ann Arbor schools slashing freshman sports teams, cutting funding to several other programs Ann Arbor Public Schools is preparing an announcement on how it will cut $475,000 from high school sports, according to district officials. District spokewoman Liz Margolis said the district will not release ...
Tuition and fees to attend the University of Michigan in fall 2011 will increase 6.7 percent for in-state undergraduate students and 4.9 percent for out-of-state students, under a budget the Board of Regents passed Thursday. The university will take a $47.5 million cut in funding from the state for the ...
Ann Arbor high school students will have the option to take a bus to school in the 2011-12 school year and about 8 fewer teaching positions will be cut than originally anticipated, according to the budget passed by the school board Wednesday.
Dealing with the 2011-12 budget has been a nerve-wracking experience for Ann Arbor school board trustees. From initial projections to proposals from the state to proposed budget cuts, there have rarely been any easy choices for trustees while discussing the budget, which is expected to be finalized Wednesday. The meeting ...
Ann Arbor schools will have at least one other southeast Michigan school district for comparison if the school board decides to cut high school transportation. Royal Oak Neighborhood Schools cut transportation for all students in the 2010-11 school year and, not surprisingly, encountered a few difficulties, Royal Oak superintendent Thomas ...
An expected loss of an additional $1.4 million will grow the Ann Arbor schools’ budget deficit next year, but no additional cuts beyond those already in the district's proposed budget will be made, and the budget may include no layoffs, according to district officials. There’s good news too: The district ...
The public will get a chance Wednesday to weigh in on proposed Ann Arbor school district budget cuts that have been modified but will still be painful. Although the district removed a controversial principal-sharing plan from the budget proposal after a backlash from the community, tough cuts remain, including the ...
State universities will have their funding cut by 15 percent after a decision by House-Senate conference committee that was passed by the full Senate, according to a report in The Detroit News. The decision is a part of the reconciling of the various budget bills passed in each chamber earlier ...
I appreciate your efforts to cover the issues in the paper of April 3 and to offer food for thought, as to the matter of "shared sacrifice" as defined by Gov. Snyder. However the question "what is fair" when it comes to public policy/tax policy is an incomplete and somewhat ...
The Southeast Michigan Council of Governments and the Metropolitan Affairs Coalition are in the final days of a regional online survey seeking resident input on local government service priorities and ways to balance municipal budgets.
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