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Education Headlines
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Fensterwald: Federal cuts to education left unresolved
Congress’ New Year’s Day drama, ending a stalemate over extending tax cuts for all but the wealthy, delays rather than resolves an across-the-board 8.2 percent decrease in federal education spending. That’s the spending piece of the “fiscal cliff” that Congress decided to put off deciding until early March.Group won't challenge Sacramento school trustee appointee
It appears newly appointed Sacramento City Unified trustee Jay Hansen will not have his seat challenged through a petition calling for a special election. Before Hansen's selection, the district's five bargaining groups and an outside coalition urged the school board to reconsider their decision to appoint someone to fill resigning board member Ellyn Bell's seat.Schools' year in review: Angst, accolades, scandal for O.C. schools
For much of 2012, public school officials wrestled with uncertainty over whether California voters would approve the Proposition 30 tax-hike initiative.Had the ballot measure gone down in defeat Nov. 6, schools would have been dealt a deep blow to their state funding streams. But the $4.8 billion cut in education funding that Gov. Jerry Brown had threatened never materialized, and with Prop. 30's passage came a renewed sense of optimism and zeal among the county's 28 school districts.Salinas school named after bandido ignites debate
Scaffolding climbs the walls of the new elementary school in Salinas, an agricultural city celebrated as John Steinbeck's birthplace but plagued by gang violence. Although still under construction, the school is already embroiled in controversy because the school board decided to name it after Tiburcio Vasquez, one of the state's most notorious Old West bandidos.EdSource: EdWatch 2013 - The next budget bill
California may finally get the “Year of Education” that former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised for 2008, which, ironically, is now remembered as the year school funding began its descent to the lower depths.Gov. Jerry Brown to revisit sweeping plan to alter school funding
In what promises to be one of his most significant policy moves this year, Gov. Jerry Brown will pursue a sweeping overhaul of the way California schools are funded, changing the way money has been allocated for four decades.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013