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CITY HALL- City Council Hears Testimony From School District Leadership on FY24 Budget- On Tuesday, City Council heard testimony from School District of Philadelphia officials regarding the city’s proposed FY24 budget...more
Every year as May 1 approaches, Connecticut school districts are confronted with an unpleasant, albeit familiar, process. For better or worse, teacher non-renewal is a fact of life under the Teacher Tenure Act and the...more
As Michigan public schools navigate the preparation of their 2021-2022 budgets, we wanted to again provide you with a reminder of the short-term borrowing options available to cover projected operating cash-flow shortfalls....more
Last week, Mayor Kenney formally introduced his budget to City Council. His proposed budget includes: Public Strategies provides more detailed analysis of the budget proposal here. ...more
On April 6, 2021, Governor Lamont issued Executive Order 10E, which pertains to 1) absentee voting, and 2) municipal and regional school district budget adoption timelines. ABSENTEE BALLOTS: Executive Order 10E largely...more
Spring is in the air….and so is budget season! For Connecticut board of education members and administrators the annual budget ritual can be an exhausting and politically-delicate process. As important as it is to rally the...more
Monday marked the nominal halfway point of the 2021 Legislative Session, but there is a keen awareness among lawmakers and lobbyists that more than half of the legislature’s work for the year lies in the legislative days to...more
It’s become tradition for lawmakers and lobbyists that the first Wednesday of each new legislative session start with an early morning surrounded by hundreds of their closest friends at the Georgia World Congress Center...more
School districts statewide will begin counting votes on proposed school budgets at 5 p.m. today. But Gov. Cuomo’s Executive Order that the votes be conducted exclusively by absentee ballot, as well as continuing uncertainty...more
In 2017, our firm published a summary of new legislation affecting Connecticut’s schools and public sector employers. However, the 2017 “regular session” of the Connecticut General Assembly was not the final word. Due to the...more
We had written earlier about the proposed bills that the General Assembly’s Education Committee voted favorably on and advanced out of committee at its March 8, 2017 meeting. The Committee subsequently voted favorably on a...more
It is indisputable that education forms the cornerstone of a productive society. What is frequently disputed, however, is what that cornerstone should cost, and just as every year swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, so...more