On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills joined me for a lively Blog Talk Radio podcast with four women running for school board in Bill Gates’ backyard up in Seattle. Sharon Peaslee, Michelle Buetow, Kate Martin and Marty McLaren have a vision for education in their district, and we’ll hear why it doesn’t completely mesh with that of the Gates and the Broad Foundations’ plans for education reform in America. What’s the difference between what these candidates have to offer and “ed reform” (or as
Note: Recipients and funding amounts are subject to budget and administrative adjustments.
Kindergarten and Grades One through Three Class Size Reduction Program apportionment letters, schedules, and other fiscal details regarding funding information for fiscal year 2011-12.
Program Questions: Rebecca Lee, e-mail: relee@cde.ca.gov, tel. 916-324-4533
Fiscal Questions: Rebecca Lee, e-mail: relee@cde.ca.gov, tel. 916-324-4533
Letter of the Advance Apportionment 28-Sep-2011
Schedule of the Advance Apportionment (XLS; 295KB; 15pp.)
Letter of the Final Apportionment 25-Jul-2011
Schedule of the Final Apportionment (XLS; 362KB; 20pp.)
More about Class Size Reduction - K-3
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As in any other subculture, rap aficionados argue about which rapper has produced the most impressive output. Jay-Z has cited Nas, The Notorious B.I.G., and 2Pac as “greats”—and his career is often compared with theirs. The Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac met untimely deaths in 1997, so comparisons are limited. But Nas’ “Illmatic” is considered one of the greatest hip-hop albums of
Now closed Sacramento charter school
advertises for students on opening day last fall
Photo by Louis Freedberg
(EdSource) – The California Department of Education is looking into the loss of upwards of “tens of millions of dollars” in federal and state funds from start-up charter schools that either never opened or failed after their first year or two of operation.
Richard Zeiger, chief deputy superintendent in the California Department of Education, first made that assertion at the State Board of Education meeting on September 7 after the closure of a West Sacramento career technical education charter school.
Zeiger said the state finds itself having to balance wanting to encourage innovation with ensuring that state and federal funds are not misspent.
The California College, Career and Technical Center, or CCCTEC, opened last September, in a vast building in an industrial park leased from a high tech company that moved its operations overseas.
But despite making grand promises of what it hoped to achieve, backed up by its slogan “where eagles soar and students thrive,” the school had problems virtually from day one,
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