It's official! Our forum for the San Diego Unified school board candidates is Thursday, May 20 from 7pm to 9pm. Save the date and make a point to be there! Now for the newsblitz:
- We blog that more than 100 school employees who aren't teachers could be laid off as part of the plan to balance the San Diego Unified budget.
- We also follow up our story on a new take on teaching vocabulary with some extra tidbits about the program -- and how a Harvard professor schooled me on the word "epicene."
- The Los Angeles Times gives a thumbs up to California's new strategy for pursuing Race to the Top funds, which could include fewer school districts but bigger changes.
- Some schools have ignored the needs of gifted students in the rush to close the achievement gap, the San Francisco Chronicle writes.
- Adult education has taken a big hit in school districts around Sacramento, the Bee reports.
- Educated Guess fact checks gubernatorial candidates Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman on education, including whether Poizner helped start charter schools and Whitman's assertion that 40 percent of school funding goes to "administration and overhead." The verdict? Read here.