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Education Headlines
Monday, April 29, 2013
CHRISTINE FRAZIER: A new funding model for next generation of students
This year, Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a complete overhaul of education funding that I believe will provide greater equity in funding to California's school districts based on the differential costs of educating California's students.Skelton: Gov. Brown as Robin Hood
His plan to shift money from suburban to urban districts might help disadvantaged students but it could hurt other kids.Linden schools simmer with unhappiness
Tensions remain high in the Linden Unified School District, where parents have expressed frustration and distrust in Superintendent Michael Gonzales.Teachers, school district reach deal
Negotiators for teachers and the Salinas Union High School District have reached agreement on a tentative contract, ending nearly two years in which the instructors had worked without one.Monterey Peninsula USD president says board was stunned by backlash concerning superintendent candidate
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District trustees mistakenly believed the sexual harassment lawsuit filed against their top superintendent candidate was a thing of the past, board President Jon Hill said Friday.Displaced Sac City elementary students stay closer to home
Hundreds of students at schools soon to close in the Sacramento City Unified School District have pushed for transfers to nearby schools rather than pursue the most sought- after campuses in the district, open enrollment data show.Charter school principal on administrative leave
The principal of The Met High School has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into allegations of misconduct, a Sacramento City Unified School District spokesman said Friday.Met High School principal in Sacramento speaks out about allegations
Met High School Principal Allen Young in Sacramento, placed on administrative leave this week pending an investigation into allegations of misconduct, says the allegations are false.Walters: California Legislature ignoring teacher pension gap
Those who occupy the Capitol have an infinite ability to evade reality, even something as seemingly stark as a huge deficit in the teacher pension system that's growing, by its own numbers, by $17 million each day.Budget crunch ending police presence on Chico high schools
For the first time in at least 15 years, school resource officers will not be joining students when they return to Chico schools in the fall. SROs are regular police officers who are assigned to the high schools - Fair View, Chico and Pleasant Valley - but also respond to incidents at the junior highs and elementary schools.Short-term loans put schools at risk
Twila Reid Elementary School in Anaheim is being built with public funds. Savanna School District, a small Orange County district, paid off its district construction loan with the help of $7.6 million in capital appreciation that will cost future taxpayers more than eight times that amount to pay back.School officials: No quick fixes for Menifee unification
The Menifee Union School District’s decades-long push to bring high school students into its fold still faces a number of hurdles that aren’t easily or quickly cleared, school officials said this week.San Ysidro school boss clams up
The former San Ysidro schools superintendent is refusing to answer questions in a lawsuit that could cost the district $18 million, as district lawyers say his responses could be used against him in a criminal corruption case.Modesto City Schools eye more revenue
The Modesto City Schools board Monday will take up how to spend more money, expected to arrive next year from grants, taxes for energy conservation projects and higher state revenues.Morgan Hill superintendent will lead California administrators' group
Wesley Smith, superintendent of the Morgan Hill Unified School District, has been named the next executive director of the Association of California School Administrators.Mt. Diablo school district begins to move on after severing ties with superintendent
The Mt. Diablo school board is launching a search for new leadership after making good on its promise to take the district in a new direction by firing the superintendent and general counsel.L.A. Unified fight focuses on breakfast program
Los Angeles Unified will eliminate a classroom breakfast program serving nearly 200,000 children, reject more school police, cut administrators and scale back new construction projects unless the school board votes to approve them, according to Supt. John Deasy.Lopez: iPads in school: a toy or a tool?
At Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills, every student has an iPad. That's 1,200 iPads, and if L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy can figure out how to pay for 660,000 more of them, every student in the district will have a tablet in the next few years. A good idea?Nearly 12% of Sac City students chronically absent, UC Davis study finds
Thousands of Sacramento City Unified School District students consistently fail to take the most basic step toward learning at school – showing up for class. A sobering report on chronically high absenteeism in the district found 11.7 percent of the students miss at least one out of every 10 school days.Efforts to split Santa Monica-Malibu district gain new traction
The school board's decision to redistribute PTA funds to less wealthy schools is a turnoff for many in Malibu. Some in Santa Monica also see potential pluses in a breakup.First academic study of controversial LA Unified teacher evaluation program
An academic study of a teacher evaluation method that looks at how much teachers are able to improve students' test scores gave the pilot program a good grade. But the study comes too late -- the teacher's union and Los Angeles Unified School District agreed not to use the measure in the district's new teacher evaluation protocols.
Friday, April 26, 2013