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Education Headlines
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
District adopts plan for possible cuts
Despite increased taxes and growing government revenue, teachers in the Desert Sands Unified School District should prepare for the possibility of layoffs or furloughs next school year. The Desert Sands school board adopted a plan for upcoming negotiations with the district teachers association during its meeting Tuesday night.Perris Union setting bar high with English learner programs
Enter Heritage High School’s pilot AVID -- Advancement Via Individual Determination -- program for English learners, one of a number of measures that have helped the Perris Union High School District rank among Riverside County’s most successful long-term English learners programs geared toward students who have been learning the language for more than five years.Suit dropped against Sequoia district for kicking cheater out of honors class
The father who sued the Sequoia Union High School District for kicking his son out of a sophomore honors class for cheating has dropped a lawsuit challenging the punishment.School board nixes health, geography requirements
Geography and health are no longer required to graduate from high school in the Temecula Valley Unified School District. The school board approved a proposal to eliminate the two courses from graduation requirements with a 3-2 vote at a meeting Tuesday, Feb. 19.San Jose Unified to sue county school board over Rocketship Education
Anxious about its ability to plan where to locate schools, the San Jose Unified School District plans to sue the Santa Clara County Board of Education for allowing Rocketship Education to build a K-5 charter school next to the Tamien light rail station in San Jose.Antioch teacher duct taped boy's mouth shut, claim alleges
The family of an 8-year-old boy filed a claim Tuesday alleging the boy's third-grade teacher duct-taped his mouth shut and that another teacher punished him by placing a chair over him and sitting on it in separate incidents earlier this school year.Baron: Superintendents in D.C. to talk district waiver with Duncan
Superintendents representing a coalition of 10 California school districts are scheduled to meet with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan today to make a personal pitch for a district waiver from provisions of No Child Left Behind, which they plan to formally submit next week.Tuesday, February 19, 2013