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Education Headlines
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Chino Valley district to delay start of Mandarin language academy
Chino Valley Unified kindergarteners will have to wait at least another school year to learn how to speak Mandarin. Board members recently reversed a decision to implement a foreign-language academy in the district in the fall.Superintendent steps down for SD High School principal post
After months of management changes and uncertainty, San Diego High School will fall under new leadership come September. The oldest school in San Diego Unified School District will drop its communications academy and shake up the management of the five remaining autonomous schools. The campus will also eliminate its campus-wide principal position.Antioch High improvement bond to be placed back on ballot
Antioch High School will have a second chance to receive a new look. School district trustees Wednesday night unanimously approved placing a $56.5 million bond measure on the November ballot aimed solely at modernizing the 58-year-old campus -- a month after a similar version of the bond measure failed by just 31 votes.California Schools Superintendent says districts should upgrade and replace old schools
Although California school districts have largely focused on building new schools to accommodate growing student populations, districts should concentrate more on renovating and replacing aging schools, according to a new report.Kerchner: Bigger dashboards may not steer districts in right direction
The dashboards and the engines behind them are linked to an assumption that better data will yield better schooling. That said, the current crop of dashboards seem pretty limited, and overreliance on dashboard data can create horrible goal substitution in which turning all the dashboard lights green equates with learning or a good education.Fensterwald: What next for Brown’s school finance reform?
A termed-out state senator who’s been a leader on education issues offered advice Wednesday to Gov. Jerry Brown on how to get the Legislature to pass significant school finance reform.CSBA launches effort to unleash ‘army of advocates’ in support of taxes
In a ground-breaking effort to marshal the political clout of thousands of locally-elected school officials, the California School Boards Association launched this week a concerted effort to have their members actively support two November tax measures to fund education.State board will fight to keep oversight of six Aspire charter schools
The California Board of Education will contest a recent court order that terminated its oversight of six schools owned by one of the largest charter school companies in the state.Wednesday, July 25, 2012