Education Headlines
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Brown visits SD, promises 'real suffering' if tax fails
Jerry Brown on Monday in San Diego peddled his tax measure to raise $6 billion annually for education and other state services, promising “real suffering by you and really our whole future” if the proposal fails in November.Twin Rivers probes allegation of unauthorized sports physicals
Twin Rivers Unified School District officials are investigating an allegation that an unauthorized Foothill High School employee conducted sports physicals for student athletes and charged them for the serviceLong Beach Unified officials decide not to close New City K-8 charter school
The future of New City K-8 charter school may be safe, for now. In a move that drew applause from a room filled with concerned New City parents, Long Beach Unified School District officials on Monday recommended to the Board of Education that the district not move to revoke the school's charter.Cost of living can affect student achievement, study says
Poor children living in higher-cost areas like the urban centers of California are more likely to struggle academically than their counterparts in lower-cost areas, according to research published today.Chorneau: CA charter movement celebrates 20 year anniversary
California now leads the nation with nearly 1,000 charter schools in operation – averaging about 100 new charters every year and an average rate of growth of about 41 percent since 2006. Tuesday, the California Charter Schools Association will mark the fall day in 1992 that former Gov. Pete Wilson signed the Charter Schools Act with an event to be held at the San Carlos Learning Center.Fensterwald: AB 5 falls short of meeting NCLB waiver requirements
Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes said that the passage of AB 5, the teacher evaluation bill that he authored, could “potentially serve as a key piece” of the state’s application for a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law – and free up hundreds of millions of federal dollars to fund districts’ evaluations and other education needs.
Monday, August 20, 2012