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Fensterwald: Brown’s funding plan faces vigorous review – and speed bump |
Education Headlines
Friday, April 5, 2013
Natomas district bus driver takes autistic boy to wrong school
A Sacramento mother said she felt panic Tuesday after learning that a substitute bus driver for the Natomas Unified School District dropped her 6-year-old autistic son at the wrong elementary school.Claremont school district could send layoff notices to five classified employees; denies charter school request
Claremont Unified School District board members voted to send notices telling five classified employees that they could be laid off.San Ysidro accepts superintendent's resignation
The San Ysidro School District board voted 3 to 2 to accept the resignation of Superintendent Manuel Paul after a nearly three-hour closed meeting Thursday night at the district’s education center in San Ysidro.Mt. Diablo school district's top attorney failed to disclose potential conflict
Just as the Mt. Diablo school board appears poised to either fire or discipline its top lawyer, an investigation by this newspaper has found that he recommended approving nearly $100,000 in school district contracts for his girlfriend's translation services firm without publicly disclosing their relationship.Fensterwald: Brown’s funding plan faces vigorous review – and speed bump
The chair of the Assembly Education Committee turned Gov. Jerry Brown’s comprehensive plan for education finance reform into bill form Thursday, ensuring that all aspects will get an extensive review, while raising the possibility that the plan may not pass in time to take effect July 1, as the governor wants.Parents with power over L.A. school weigh their options
About 50 parents on Thursday attended a presentation to help them decide who should run 24th Street Elementary School, a campus whose fate is in the hands of families who are trying to change the management of the school under the controversial parent trigger law.Thursday, April 4, 2013