A lot of students use "from" for everything that involves "~부터" which is not always correct. There are three different cases.
1) Starting in/on
If the thing you are talking about has not started yet, use "starting in/on." A lot of my students use "from" for this, which is actually (I believe) British English. See the third bullet below.
- e.g. Ahead of likely elections this year, Mr. Tharman announced a package that includes S$3.2 billion in tax cuts and rebates for households in the fiscal year starting in April and set aside S$3.4 billion for long-term social investments (Wall Street Journal, Feb 18, 2011)
- The company, which will be the third private-equity-backed initial public offering to raise more than a billion dollars so far this year, is scheduled to launch its roadshow starting on Tuesday and price its IPO on March 9 (Wall Street Journal, Feb 19, 2011)
- Last week, it asked all its staff in the UK to volunteer to take up to one month's unpaid leave or work unpaid for that time...In exchange the pilots will be given, from June 2011, shares worth £13m if certain company targets are met (BBC June 18, 2009)
If the thing you are talking about has already started, use "since"
- I have been working on this thing since last month. I don't know what to do!
- The government has implemented a new rule since January 2010.
If the thing you are talking about has clear starting and ending points, use "from ... to..."
- From June 2010 to January 2011 rising food prices have driven an estimated 44 million people into poverty in developing countries (Huffington Post, Feb 19, 2011)
