High schools predict community college transfers - by Kathryn Baron
President Obama has long been a champion of community colleges and he demonstrated that commitment Monday, when he traveled to Northern Virginia Community College to release his 2012-13 budget proposal, which calls for an $8 billion program to train students for jobs in high-demand industries. One day later, the Civil Rights Project at UCLA released a [...]
Bus money back for next year, too - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Days after signing a bill restoring $248 million in school bus funding for the rest of this year, Gov. Brown has done an about-face and also agreed not to eliminate school bus funding in next year’s budget. Instead of cutting other parts of the K-12 budget to make room for $500 million in home-to-school transportation, [...]