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Education Headlines
Friday, October 26, 2012
Encinitas school district changes website following campaigning complaint
A San Diego man has complained to the Encinitas Union School District that its website has inappropriate campaign material supporting tax propositions on the November ballot.Galt elementary school district board increases developer fees
Over the next five years, Galt Joint Union Elementary School District estimated it will need room for an additional 106 new students due to new housing projections — and officials there are asking developers to foot the bill.Walters: Jerry Brown's tax boost is in trouble
The governor of California may not be toast – yet – but, one might say, he's turning browner by the moment in the heat of a political campaign he hoped would be his legacy achievement. Two new statewide polls confirm what political instincts – and Jerry Brown's body language – were already telling us: His tax increase measure, Proposition 30, is fading fast with scarcely a week remaining until Election Day.Amid misconduct probe, O.C. charter school exonerates itself
A K-8 charter school accused of misconduct during state standardized testing has absolved itself of wrongdoing following an internal investigation, even as the Capistrano Unified School District continues to probe reports of testing violations.School bonds crowd local ballot; What's at stake
Come Election Day, San Diego County voters will decide the fate of 11 local education bond measures — the most on a single ballot since 1996 — and two statewide tax initiatives meant to generate money for schools.Fensterwald: Report says weighted student formula alone not enough
A new report reaffirms support in principle for the concept of a weighted student formula, but calls for the governor to include provisions that will assure that the extra money for disadvantaged students actually will be spent in the schools that those students attend – and isn’t diluted throughout a district.Thursday, October 25, 2012