Upcoming forums on state budget - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess Perplexed over how California finances its schools? Exasperated by the stalemate over state budget? If you live in the Bay Area, you can hear some informed perspectives – and arm yourself with good information – at two public forums over the next ...
To the barricades and to the mall - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess The tent sign on a table at the food court at Valley Fair Mall in San Jose read, “I am a teacher. Ask me what I do.” So I did. Jennifer Thomas, an English teacher at Lincoln High in San Jose Unified, was reading 94 two-page essays by her three freshman ...
