It's the newsblitz and it's coming your way:
- You're new to the country and speak little English. You've only had a few years of schooling in your own tongue. And now you've got to pass the California high school exit exam. Newcomer teens are in a race against time, and Crawford High is one of five campuses that have a special program to help them catch up.
- The Union-Tribune writes that Carlsbad teens swept a national student broadcast competition.
- Also in the UT: Escondido is starting young -- very young -- on the idea of college.
- And the UT editorial page has two arguments on education: It urges City Council to move forward on the schoobrary. And it wants California to keep working to link teacher pay to student test scores.
- Parents and bus drivers in Poway will plead with their school district not to cut bus routes, the North County Times writes.
- The NCT also reports that Vista teachers are going back to the bargaining table with the Vista school district after months of protests at school board meetings.
- Educated Guess blogs that a newly proposed law would allow school districts to lay off teachers based on effectiveness, not seniority, and push back the date for warning teachers of a possible layoff. The California Teachers Association is likely to fight it, John Fensterwald writes.
