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Education Headlines
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Education roundup: Taft gets new superintendent
Blanca Cavazos, a former Arvin High School principal and current Kern County Superintendent of Schools office administrator, has been offered the job of superintendent of the Taft Union High School District.S.J. office draws heat in migrant-education audit
A newly released state audit of California's migrant-education program criticizes the San Joaquin County Office of Education for handling conflict-of-interest charges against a since-departed official in 2011 as an "internal personnel issue."Paso Robles school board cuts 15 positions
The equivalent of 15 classified staff positions will be downsized in the Paso Robles school district, the result of a unanimous school board vote Tuesday. Meanwhile, a letter issued by the board Wednesday suggests continued teacher pay cuts are necessary.Fresno Unified expects $66.9 million reserve
The Fresno Unified school board got some good financial news on Wednesday night that will allow the district to keep all its teachers and hire new ones to handle a decrease in class sizes next year. The district will be able to meet its financial obligations this year and expects to end the fiscal year on June 30 with $66.9 million in its reserve.Gilroy school district forced into spending freeze to avoid financial crisis
The Santa Clara County Office of Education has imposed a spending and hiring freeze on the Gilroy Unified School District, to avert a deepening a financial crisis and cash-flow crunch.Some teachers to get layoff notices despite rising revenue
Teachers and counselors filling the equivalent of 20.2 fulltime jobs in the Riverside Unified School District will get preliminary layoff notices even though the district’s finances are improving.Temecula Valley Unified board approves layoff notices
The governing board of the Temecula Valley Unified School District on Tuesday approved issuing layoff notices to nearly 40 teachers and eliminating 16 classified positions during an agenda filled with budgetary preparations for the 2013-14 school year and beyond.San Lorenzo cuts preschool teacher and reduces art teacher hours
The school board voted unanimously Tuesday to issue a layoff notice to a preschool teacher and reduce the hours of a high school art teacher from full-time to part-time, a decision met with disbelief by the president of the teachers union.Sonoma County educator tapped to head Kentfield schools
Kentfield native Liz Schott has been tapped to head the Kentfield School District after Superintendent Mary Jo Pettegrew retires this summer.Layoff notices frustrate parents of Antioch home-schoolers
he Antioch school district will send out preliminary layoff notices to teachers by next week. Antioch Unified, East Contra Costa's largest school district, is the only one in the area issuing layoff noticesFrey: State’s first career-tech center faces potential demise
The superintendent of the state’s oldest regional occupational program is warning that an unintended consequence of the governor’s Local Control Funding Formula could lead to its demise. An official from the Department of Finance says his department will look into the problem.Pomona Unified board opts to keep Montvue School open for another year
Montvue Elementary School will continue operating for at least one more school year while Pomona Unified School District administrators look for other ways to close a $5.4 million deficit.Fensterwald: Victorious LAUSD incumbent vows to keep challenging Deasy
Having presented the Los Angeles School Board election races as a referendum on Superintendent John Deasy’s future, the club of six- and seven-figure donors in Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Coalition for School Reform may have succeeded in making Deasy’s life more complicated.Pleasant Valley High gym to get health-safety repairs
The district's Director of Facilities and Construction Mike Weissenborn and head of maintenance and operations Randy Salado came to the board to ask for an emergency repair project in the Varley Gym on the PVHS campus.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013