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Education Headlines
Friday, July 13, 2012
Claremont Unified approves agreements with organizations
Claremont Unified School District board members voted to approve agreements with a number of employee organizations Thursday night using $2.4 million in reserve funding to temporarily increase the district's contribution to each groups benefits and give an immediate pay raise for 2012.Alvord district calls for bond election
The Alvord school board will ask voters in November to approve $79 million in reauthorized bonds. The board unanimously approved a resolution Thursday night, July 12, to place the bond measure on the ballot. If passed, the measure would save about $260 million in interest over the life of the bonds, but property owners would pay about $51 more per $100,000 assessed valuation each year.LAUSD moving to better review teachers
At 30 pages, the performance evaluation that Los Angeles Unified wants to use to rate its teachers is 27 pages longer than the one that's been in place for years. Instead of the cursory review that now nets nearly every teacher a satisfactory rating - despite the district's dismal 56 percent graduation rate - the new Teaching and Learning Framework plots a teacher's knowledge and skills in more than five dozen categories.Frey: Amended versions of key discipline bills move forward
Three key bills aimed at changing school discipline policies were approved in the state Assembly before the summer recess and will be ready for a final vote on the Senate floor when legislators return from their recess in August. But in the process, the bills have been softened to give districts more discretion to implement harsher punishments than the authors originally intended (see chart below).Thursday, July 12, 2012