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Education Headlines
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Sacramento-area school board races vary widely in voter participation
As ballots continue to be counted, a trend among local school districts appears to be holding – voter participation in school board races varies drastically from one area to another.Elk Grove's Hmong find a voice on their school board
Steve Ly, 38, used a fresh army of 250 volunteers, most of them Hmong Americans between the ages of 16 and 25, to become the first Hmong American to be elected to public office in Northern California.L.A. schools science center in San Pedro struggles to stay open
The Christensen Math Science and Technology Center in San Pedro is a beleaguered survivor of the Los Angeles Unified School District's budget cuts.Frugal Brown vows thrift as Californians open checkbook
Proposition 30, the first voter-approved state tax increase in eight years, gives Gov. Jerry Brown a chance to mend the tattered finances of the world’s ninth-largest economy. He has the opportunity to restore California’s reputation for world-class universities, schools and infrastructure built under his father, Governor Edmund G. “Pat” Brown in the 1960s.Proposition 30 win no guarantee of fiscal safety for California
The bloodletting that has become a ritual part of assembling the state budget is expected to fade. But some of the issues that have made California's financial problems so persistent remain and could still create a budget gap if things don't go as planned. In essence, analysts say, voters have stabilized the patient, but surgery may still be required.Schrag: What last Tuesday’s vote got us (not much)
Yes, Proposition 30 won, and yes, there may be Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature – maybe – that in theory could raise taxes without Republican votes. But even if every cent went to schools of the $6 billion to $8 billion that Proposition 30 will generate, which certainly will not happen, we still wouldn’t get back to the national average in per-pupil spending, much less to anything approaching real adequacy or equity in our diverse, convoluted system.Fensterwald: This time, groups get to say their piece on weighted student funding
Intent on passing school finance reform this year but open to revising last year’s proposal, the Brown administration held the first of three Friday meetings with dozens of school district officials and advocates last week on plans for weighted student funding.Friday, November 9, 2012