Article: Pa. Gov. Ridge Announces First-Ever `Read-To-Succeed' Grants; Nearly $19 Million Awarded to 409 Schools in 50 Counties to Make Sure Children Read by End of Third Grade.

Article: Seeking bigger school districts: Senate proposal offers incentives to consolidate school districts.
Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho);  February 24, 2007 ;     570 words ......pass through three different school districts. It's about a 10-minute drive...Shoshone, Dietrich and Richfield school districts, which have fewer than 1,000...proposing to offer incentives to school districts that want to bring those worlds...

Article: 21 area school districts honored
St. Joseph News-Press;  December 19, 2002 ;     386 words ......Twenty-one Northwest Missouri school districts have received the state's Distinction...Holden named the 157 Missouri school districts to earn the state award during...one-third of the state's 524 school districts have met the standards for this...

Article: Nine districts in Minneapolis/St. Paul affected by Moody's actions. (school districts' general obligation debt downgraded)
The Bond Buyer;  April 30, 1992 ;     442 words ......obligation debt ratings of seven school districts in the Minneapolis/St. Paul...of a special report on the 40 school districts in the metropolitan region for...The downgrades of the seven school districts affected $96.45 million of outstanding...

Article: Doubt cast on school savings ; Five school districts find consolidation might cost taxpayers more, but the state criticizes the report.
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  June 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ......cast on school savings ; Five school districts find consolidation might cost...whether a new state law requiring school districts to consolidate will save money...example - that are expected when school districts reorganize. "Most of what has...

Article: Vague monetary benefits Baldacci's biggest obstacle ; He says large school districts spend less per student. But administrative savings appear to be small.
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  January 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......biggest obstacle ; He says large school districts spend less per student. But...sidebar consolidation Larger school districts can provide more programs for...is clear evidence that larger school districts are more efficient than smaller...

Article: Health trust to give $1.9M back: Money to be returned to participating school districts is part of a $5.5M surplus.
Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA);  May 25, 2006 ;     593 words ......care costs for most of the area school districts voted Wednesday to give a nearly...proposed millage increases in school districts participating in the Northeastern Pennsylvania School Districts Health Trust. Those opposed...

Article: PLAN WOULD REIMBURSE STATE SCHOOL DISTRICTS FOR BAD INVESTMENT.(Local)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  April 1, 1987 ;     531 words ...Byline: Associated Press The school districts in New York, including Guilderland...October 1983 with two dozen school districts around the state, four local...future investment practices by school districts. Walsh said it is important...

Article: 2 school districts ready to team up
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 6, 2002 ;     700+ words ...2 school districts ready to team up Racine, Kenosha work...concept now is spreading to public school districts. The Racine Unified School District...District -- the third- and fourth-largest school districts in the state -- are working on an...

Article: Wealthy Texas School Districts Seek High Court's Relief.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ......28--AUSTIN, Texas-High-wealth school districts on Thursday urged the Texas...districts. She said 40 percent of school districts - with half the students in...for the state and low-wealth school districts, who argued that there is no...

Article: EIGHT ON FED WATCH LISTS SCHOOL DISTRICTS URGED TO IMPROVE.(News)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  March 10, 2005 ;     675 words ......Eight of Antelope Valley's 12 school districts have been designated as failing...Unified, Palmdale and Wilsona school districts. The four that remained off...Kern Unified and Westside Union school districts. In addition to the eight school...

Article: Ohio school districts to go ahead with bond, levy elections.(Midwest: Trends in the Region)
The Bond Buyer;  October 8, 1997 ;     675 words ...Ohio school districts are going to voters with levy increases...inadequately funds many of the poorer school districts. The court gave lawmakers one year...alternative funding methods. But school districts don't expect to be flooded with cash...

Article: 267 school districts pass in assigned consolidation plans ; The letters of intent in many cases express more than one possibility.
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Herald (Maine) 09-01-2007 267 school districts pass in assigned consolidation...Front AUGUSTA -- A deadline for school districts to submit consolidation plans...this year to trim the number of school districts from 290 to about 80. By the...

Article: STATE COMPTROLLER DINAPOLI: EIGHT SCHOOL DISTRICTS MISS OUT ON $3.1 MILLION OF MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 30, 2008 ;     505 words ......and policies prevented eight school districts throughout Northeastern New...Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. "School districts are struggling to fund educational...important revenue source for school districts and the state. The money is...

Article: MORE SCHOOL DISTRICTS CONSIDER CONSOLIDATING STATE DISTRICTS, SUCH AS ALBANY IN GREEN COUNTY, ARE SEEKING A WAY TO DEAL WITH A CASH CRUNCH.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  November 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ......about consolidating or merging school districts were common in the 1940s, '50s...increases aid to newly formed school districts that exceeds what the districts...districts formed involving 109 school districts, there have been renewed discussions...