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Top Ten Best School Systems in CA

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1San Marino
2Hermosa Beach
3Manhattan Beach
4Belvedere
5Orinda
6Piedmont
7Oak Park
8Palo Alto
9Moraga
10Mill Valley

Affeldt: Shame on districts seeking to perpetuate funding advantages





Education Headlines

Friday, February 15, 2013

Teachers picket Eureka City Schools district office

Eureka Teacher's Association members picketed outside of Eureka City Schools district office on Walford Avenue in Eureka on Thursday morning before the second round of 2013-2014 contract talks.

Turmoil grips San Jose charter high school

It was a good week at ACE Charter High last week: The Internet finally got hooked up for students at the fledging school. Access to the Web is both a triumph and an indicator of the bumpy start for the charter, which hoped to do "blended learning" of technology and traditional teaching for kids in one of San Jose's toughest neighborhoods. But ACE opened in August without textbooks, student Internet access or lunch tables -- and chaos in some classes.

Affeldt: Shame on districts seeking to perpetuate funding advantages

Kudos to Jerry Brown for proposing to end the inequities in California school funding – and shame on the districts that seek to fossilize the advantages they have enjoyed for decades now.
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Education roundup: District superintendent Hearron retiring

Kip Hearron is retiring as superintendent of the Panama-Buena Vista Union School District.

State bill would shrink school superintendents' severance pay

A California legislator wants to shrink considerably the severance pay for California school superintendents.

Monterey teachers' dramatic health insurance increases have a long history

The sticker shock that Monterey Peninsula Unified School District teachers experienced in January, when they saw their health care premiums rise by as much as $500 a month, has been years in the making.