The Educated Guess State Board cites emergency, intervenes in Salinas school district

The Educated Guess

State Board cites emergency, intervenes in Salinas school district

Posted in State Board of Education, Turning around failing schools

Meeting in emergency session by teleconference Tuesday, the State Board of Education voted unanimously to appoint an interim trustee to oversee the academically troubled, trustee-challenged Alisal Union School District. The decision was in response to reports of continued instability and intimidation in the low-income elementary district in East Salinas.
The Board’s action came two weeks after it took the unprecedented step of voting to oversee Alisal and neighboring Greenfield Union School District in Monterey County. The State Board has appointed trustees for financially failing districts before but never for academic and leadership failures. But what may have been somewhat controversial on March 11 quickly turned prescient.
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