Your nominations for the worst education jargon are coming in fast and furious! Send me more of the eduspeak you love to hate -- and look for a blog post soon. Now for your newsblitz:
- We tell the winding story of what happens when a child is kicked out of a charter school, but the school district doesn't agree that the child should be expelled. Sending them back to district schools has upset school staff and stirred up talk of an uneven playing field.
- The Union-Tribune reports that a soccer team at an alternative school is helping kids get to school on time.
- Also in the U-T: Iraqi immigrants are struggling to find the English classes they need to get a job and keep their welfare benefits.
- In SDNN, San Diego Unified school board member John de Beck questions whether a plan to move around the department that analyzes data will leave nobody guarding the hen house.