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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Buyouts for teachers already retired

The San Diego Unified School District has expanded its offer of $25,000 buyouts to hundreds of veteran educators - including two dozen who already are retired.

Yucaipa school board hires Fontana superintendent

The Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District board has voted unanimously to offer Fontana Superintendent Cali Olsen-Binks its top job.

School staffers pack Tam district board meeting amid labor dispute

Members of a school staffers union packed a meeting of the Tamalpais Union High School District board Wednesday night to call for increased salaries and benefits amid stalled contract negotiations.

Moraga: Teacher says she was punished for reporting abusive teacher in '90s

A former teacher at a Moraga middle school rocked by a 1990s sex abuse scandal has come forward to say she warned the school principal and others on multiple occasions during that period about her suspicions but that nothing was done.

Morgan Hill school officials give Latino parents cold shoulder

In seeking better lives for their children, Latino parents in Morgan Hill have felt vilified, ignored and blamed by the very people they had hoped to work with to improve education: their public schools.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

California schools chief Tom Torlakson to deliver annual address in Lawndale

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson will deliver his annual "State of the State of California Education" address Thursday at the Centinela Valley Center for the Arts auditorium in Lawndale.

Grover Heights Elementary School teachers opt out of district training program

Teachers at one elementary school in the Lucia Mar Unified School District have voted to opt out of a teacher training and evaluation program put in place at seven schools in the South County district in 2011.

Temecula Valley Charter changes likely mean new teachers

With the revision calling for the charter school to hire non-district teachers, all 19 of the school’s instructors are expected to leave the 500-student school in Winchester, school officials said.