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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 service

Long 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

State's 'the check is in the mail' forces schools districts to break out credit card

Like a homeowner living beyond their means, California is paying some of its bills late, by months or even years. And this "the check is in the mail" method of balancing the state budget has forced many of California's 977 public school districts to either dip into shrinking financial reserves or pay borrowing fees and interest on short-term loans to cover their expenses in the meantime.

Superintendent recommends leasing classrooms to private school

School officials in Carlsbad have struck a deal with a private school to lease 16 classrooms at Magnolia Elementary School for almost $250,000 a year, substantially less than the amount the private school offered earlier this month.

As year begins, Marin schools use new national standards

There is still much uncertainty about how instruction may change because teachers and administrators are still analyzing the standards and their implications.