Education Headlines
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Pendley addresss dubious PhD
Columbia Union School District Superintendent John Pendley addressed concerns about his doctoral diploma at a regular board meeting Tuesday.Fresno Unified board plans to reorganize administration
The Fresno Unified School District board adopted a plan Wednesday to reorganize the district administration, calling for as many as a dozen new hires to join the district's top ranks. The board also approved hiring or promoting staff to fill eight of those jobs.Michael Murphy out as principal as Ivy Academia high school
Ivy Academia, which operates four campuses in the West San Fernando Valley, said Wednesday that Michael Murphy had left as principal of its high school in Chatsworth.Mt. Diablo school district bracing for more cuts
Voters may approve the governor's proposed tax increases this fall, but those votes might not be enough to prevent the Mt. Diablo school district from a $3.6 million shortfall by June, 2014, according to latest projections.Berkeley High School teacher named in harassment lawsuit suspended
A Berkeley High counselor was issued a seven-day suspension of his teaching credential by the state because of misconduct, according to the Commission on Teaching Credentialing.Ban on preferential charter enrollment gets nod from key panel
A bill that would prevent the state’s charter schools from offering preferential enrollment to students whose parents volunteer time or make cash donations was moved by a key Assembly panel Wednesday over objections of the California Charter Schools Association.Gov. Brown wants single school accountability system
Last week, the Brown administration and state schools chief Tom Torlakson released the latest plan for getting California schools a federal waiver from the performance mandates required under the No Child Left Behind Act – a proposal that would have California drop out completely from the federal accountability system and instead rely only on the state’s existing Academic Performance Index.Fensterwald: First pass at school inspections
The State Board of Education on Wednesday waded into what’s expected to be a yearlong process of revising the state’s standardized-test-heavy school accountability system. First up: discussing whether to reshape an existing tool, the School Accountability Report Card, or SARC, an annual data dump that every school collects and is supposed to post online, and whether to consider adding a new dimension – school inspections.Wednesday, May 9, 2012
