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Posted inSchools
New Beginnings charter network engages consultant to create its new budget
New Beginnings Schools Foundation’s finance committee met Wednesday with its not-quite-hired financial consultant to discuss how to save money.
Posted inEnvironment
Financial benefits of short-lived coastal restoration aren’t clear
The cost of the Coastal Master Plan is estimated at $92 billion. Is it worth the cost? The answer involves different viewpoints, and you have to consider the losses without it, as well as what can be saved for even a half century.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Evicted: How a landlord jumping into the short-term rental market cost us our home
We were model tenants — and then came the vacate order.
Posted inSchools
State school board drops hot potato of school funding in local board’s lap
Surprise move comes as schools expected to lose money threaten to sue the state.
Posted inEnvironment, Investigations
With gloomier estimates, should coastal plan look further than 50 years?
The state’s Coastal Master Plan is intended to address problems for 50 years. But research looking at conditions by the year 2100 show these efforts will be overwhelmed. What are the risks of doing too little versus doing too much?
Posted inEnvironment, Investigations
Can sediment diversions from river keep up with land loss, rising Gulf?
Unabated global warming has moved the goal posts for coastal restoration efforts.
Posted inSchools
With last two schools choosing to transfer, total of 5 may move back to School Board
Officials at Mary D. Coghill and Fannie C. Williams voted this week to transfer from recovery district.
Posted inSchools
Superintendents back funding formula, say they’ll ensure special-education spending
Schools would get more money for special-education students, less for gifted students.
Posted inEnvironment
Increasing estimates for sea-level rise bring questions on coastal plan
As the state prepares its regular five-year update on the 50-year Coastal Master Plan, officials are considering evolving research that shows that climate change and subsidence getting worse. Will the state’s work be worth the cost and effort?