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Diana Rodriguez for State Assembly, District 9 |
Education Headlines
Thursday, April 18, 2013
New Fillmore school to serve growing area, superintendent says
A south Fillmore campus set to open next school year will help the school district serve a growing part of the community, the interim superintendent said Tuesday night at a school board meeting.Conejo Valley school board considers bond measure
Fifteen years after Thousand Oaks voters approved Measure R to provide money for school renovation, the Conejo Valley Unified School District is considering putting a bond on the ballot again.Rio school board studies options to cope with growth
As part of an effort to deal with steadily increasing enrollment, the Rio school board on Wednesday weighed proposals that included building a new school and converting some schools into campuses for kindergartners through eighth-graders.How will Sonora High spend bond money?
Sonora High School will get a new aquatics center and updated buildings under a preliminary plan for spending $23 million from a bond measure passed last year.Brea Olinda looks at new school bond
With the defeat of a multi-million-dollar bond still fresh, Brea Olinda Unified officials might soon again ask voters to pass a new measure to generate revenue for the district's high-performing schools.SAN JACINTO: School trustees promote administrator to top job
San Jacinto’s deputy school superintendent will be promoted to superintendent on July 1 after nearly eight-year veteran administrator Shari Fox retires, school trustees decided Tuesday, April 16.Modesto's Sylvan school district OKs change in hours, hires superintendent
The Sylvan Union School District will try early-day Wednesdays next year to give teachers time to collaborate, board members ruled. The vote Tuesday night was 3-1 to cut the school day by an hour midweek and extend it 15 minutes on the other four days. Board President Cynthia Lindsey was absent.Public will get say on Chico school bond projects
In a series of separate items on Wednesday, the Chico Unified School District board of trustees took steps to issue bonds connected to Measure E, begin the public input on what to do with those dollars, and began to think about new solar power projects that could happen without bond funds.LAUSD board votes to improve abuse investigations
With 278 Los Angeles Unified educators sitting in "teacher jail," the school board voted Tuesday to streamline and improve the investigations of those accused of serious physical abuse or sexual misconduct.Education advocate Michelle Rhee fends off accusations
Michelle Rhee, head of a group that advocates using student test scores to evaluate teachers, fends off accusations that she failed to pursue evidence of cheating when she ran the D.C. school system.Frey: Bill restricting ‘willful defiance’ for suspending students moves ahead
With new data showing that more than half of all suspensions and a quarter of expulsions in California schools are for “willful defiance” of school authorities, the Assembly Education Committee voted 6-0 on Wednesday to move forward a bill that would restrict the use of the vague category by school administrators.Fensterwald: Math framework for Common Core ready for your critique
A draft of the California math curriculum framework went online Wednesday for public comments and suggestionsBrown's school funding plan gets thumbs up in statewide poll
Key elements of Gov. Jerry Brown's school-funding proposal are getting passing grades from Californians, a new statewide poll shows.LAUSD OKs parent-trigger petition
The school board ratifies a partnership between the Los Angeles Unified School District and a charter school to take control of the low-performing 24th Street Elementary in Jefferson Park.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013