What you need to know about funding your golden years
DECIDING how to take your pension income at retirement is one of the toughest and most important decisions you will ever make. Daily Express :: Finance Feed
Women’s lives ‘needlessly put at risk by breast cancer drug funding confusion’
THOUSANDS of women with postmenopausal breast cancer are missing out on 43p-a-day drugs that could prevent their disease spreading, research suggests. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Christie Pushes to Re-write New Jersey Education Funding Formula
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s administration is arguing in court that the state needs the ability to overrule teacher contracts, rather than receiving additional funding, in order to improve struggling school districts. The governor is asking the Supreme Court to give the state the authority to override teacher contract rules in a total […]
New Mexico Expands Early Pre-K Program with New Funding
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Leaders in the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) have said that $ 3.5 million in pre-K funds that were unused would be routed into the Early Pre-K program, and the influx would bring the total investment in the year-old effort to over $ 10.5 million. The pilot program started last […]
Dementia care in crisis over lack of funding from councils
COUNCILS are spending as little as £1.78 an hour on dementia patients in care homes, research reveals. Daily Express :: Health Feed
MI’s Snyder Looks to Supreme Court Guidance on Private School Funding
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has asked for the assistance of the state Supreme Court to decide whether the adopted state budget violates the constitution because of funding provisions to private schools. Lori Higgins writes for the Detroit Free Press that the budget would be funding as much as $ 2.5 million to pay back private schools […]
Fullstack Academy to Start Funding Incubator
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Fullstack Academy, one of the top coding bootcamps in the United States, has announced the creation of Fullstack Fund, a new initiative to invest in promising startups created by alumni of the program. Fullstack Academy CEO David Yang said that the New York-based startup, which was originally launched in 2013, will invest […]
Chicago CEO Claypool: Schools Won’t Open Without Funding
(Photo: ABC) Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool has said that CPS will not be able to open in the fall if state lawmakers cannot approve an education budget: “Chicago schools would not open, and I suspect most of the schools in the state would not open.” The divisions among Democratic legislators who have control over […]
First Lady Secures Long-Term Funding for Turnaround Arts Program
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) One of Michelle Obama’s key arts programs, Turnaround Arts, will continue after she leaves the WhiteHouse. The program started five years ago to bring high-quality music, theater, dance, and visual arts instruction to underperforming schools. The program will be housed at the Kennedy Center. The program now functions in 49 schools […]
Texas Supreme Court Finds Education Funding Constitutional
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) After three decades, the Texas Supreme Court has unanimously agreed that the state’s school funding system is constitutional. The decision confirms Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) and Republican legislative leaders’ declarations that the schools system is progressing. The governor and lawmakers had also contended that the amount of funding given to schools […]