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Education Headlines
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Coachella Valley teachers use website to stock classrooms with needed supplies
In the midst of a statewide cash crunch and shrinking school supply budgets, 60 Coachella Valley teachers have turned to DonorsChoose.org, a crowdfunding website that works to bridge the gap between where school funding ends and creative teaching begins.Injured Temecula cheerleader to sue district
A Temecula Valley High School cheerleader is preparing to sue the school district because of an accident during a homecoming stunt that left the 17-year-old girl with a traumatic brain injury that she may never recover from, her attorney said.California bill would require panic alarms in schools
Lawmakers gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a bill that would require panic alarms to be installed throughout school campuses in California, but only if the federal government pays for it.School district cited in civil rights investigation
An investigation into alleged discrimination in the Corona-Norco schools concluded that minority students and those with disabilities were treated improperly.Assistant principal arrested on sex charges
Hemet Police arrested a Tahquitz High School assistant principal Wednesday morning, April 3, on suspicion of multiple sexual misconduct charges with students.Many Bay Area districts fail to adequately educate low-income and minority students, report finds
An educational advocacy group released its third annual District Report Cards on Wednesday, showing that half the largest unified districts in the Bay Area improved in their efforts to educate low-income students and those who are African-American or Latino.Antioch: Three parents of autistic kindergarten children file federal civil rights lawsuit claiming teacher abuse
With the filing of a federal lawsuit Wednesday, a horrific child abuse scandal burst into public view in the Antioch school district, involving three autistic students who allegedly were slapped, pinched and verbally abused by a teacher -- and school officials who failed to report the accusations to police as the law requires.Opening up, students transform a vicious circle
There is little down time in Eric Butler’s classroom. “My daddy got arrested this morning,” Mercedes Morgan, a distraught senior, told the students gathered there. Mr. Butler’s mission is to help defuse grenades of conflict at Ralph J. Bunche High School, the end of the line for students with a history of getting into trouble. He is the school’s coordinator for restorative justice, a program increasingly offered in schools seeking an alternative to “zero tolerance” policies like suspension and expulsion.EdSource: Students find fruit appealing as a school snack, study finds
Amid the ongoing state push for healthy foods for school children, a new review has found that students eat more fruits and vegetables when they attend schools that participate in the federal Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Program.750 L.A. Unified security aides hired since Newtown school shooting
The Los Angeles Unified School District has hired more than 750 of the 1,000 security aides it decided to employ after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.SD lawmakers support teacher dismissal bill
Despite reservations over some details, two San Diego County lawmakers lined up with the rest of the Assembly Education Committee Wednesday to unanimously pass legislation that would make it simpler to fire teachers accused of sex crimes against children and other serious offenses.CA Assembly panel approves teacher dismissal bill
It could become easier to fire a teacher in California: the Assembly Education Committee voted 7-0 on Wednesday to approve a bill by Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, which would streamline the process for jettisoning incompetent or abusive educators.Proposal for parent-trigger overhaul at L.A. school well-received
Leaders of a parent group have endorsed a plan to improve 24th Street Elementary, which would be jointly run by Los Angeles Unified School District and Crown Prep charter school.Fensterwald: Bill would protect adult ed, career tech while extending local control
School districts would keep discretion to spend billions of dollars of “categorical” funding however they want for five more years under a Senate bill that passed its first hurdle in the Legislature on Wednesday.Wednesday, April 3, 2013
