Shrinking budgets forcing teams to be creative with postseason trips | Varsity Extra: High School Sports | Idaho Statesman

Shrinking budgets forcing teams to be creative with postseason trips | Varsity Extra: High School Sports | Idaho Statesman: "But as Idaho’s school districts deal with budget cuts from the state legislature and mixed results in local levy elections, it’s possible for some officials to see a time when a qualifying team wouldn’t participate at state championship events.

“I could foresee a team at some point saying we’re not going to state because we can’t afford it,” Capital athletic director Steve Sosnowski said."

Fairfax public schools could get corporate donations through proposed nonprofit

Fairfax public schools could get corporate donations through proposed nonprofit: "The Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce unveiled plans Tuesday for a new nonprofit foundation that would allow companies to donate money to benefit the county's public schools. Stuart Mendelsohn, the chamber's outgoing chairman and a partner with the law firm Holland & Knight, said during the group's annual luncheon that a 'more formal announcement' about the foundation would come this summer and that the new nonprofit would fill a 'much-needed' void."

Broad and Other Philanthropists Pay for Jobs at L.A. Schools - Philanthropy.com

Broad and Other Philanthropists Pay for Jobs at L.A. Schools - Philanthropy.com: "Broad and Other Philanthropists Pay for Jobs at L.A. Schools

More than a dozen senior staff jobs in the Los Angeles school district are financed by philanthropists, including Eli Broad and the Wasserman and Walton foundations, according to the Los Angeles Times."

Schools may rely more on nonprofits - Redlands Daily Facts

Schools may rely more on nonprofits - Redlands Daily Facts: "REDLANDS - With the possibility of future cuts to the Redlands Unified School District budget, schools may look more to nonprofit organizations that supplement school programs for support.

'(Nonprofits are) very important, because we are able to help them fill the gaps,' said Lynn Whitmer, president Redlands Educational Partnership Foundation. 'We work hard to bring the visual and performing arts, and sciences, to our schools. These are the things they (may not) have if REP wasn't paying for them."