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Fensterwald: School funding will be focus, source of contention, of Brown’s revised budget |
Education Headlines
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Fensterwald: School funding will be focus, source of contention, of Brown’s revised budget
Democrats in the Legislature may find themselves at odds with Gov. Jerry Brown on two issues that will factor large when Brown reveals his revised state budget Tuesday: how to spend billions in unanticipated revenue and how to reshape Brown’s sweeping plan for funding K-12 education.Nine San Fernando Valley schools seeking affiliated charter status
Nine more San Fernando Valley campuses would open this fall as charter schools if their applications are approved today by the Los Angeles Unified school board.Salinas high school district teachers set to vote on contract
Teachers in the Salinas Union High School District will cast their ballots today on a new contract.Suit accuses Compton school district of abuse, racial profiling
A group of parents and students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Compton school district alleging a pattern of abuse and racial profiling of Latinos by school police.Parent trigger law invoked to kick out L.A. school's administrators
A group of parents appear ready to force the Los Angeles Unified School District to enact sweeping changes at their elementary school.LAUSD board to vote on breakfast in the classroom, school police
The Los Angeles school board meeting is expected to draw more than 1,500 demonstrators Tuesday as members are scheduled to vote to continue funding the classroom breakfast program, an increase in the school police force and other budget items.Brown's revised budget has more money as revenue beats estimate
With California income tax revenue running about $4.5 billion ahead of expectations through April, Gov. Jerry Brown finds himself today in an unusual position: Releasing a revised budget proposal highlighting better numbers, not worse.Brown to propose $1B for new school standards
Gov. Jerry Brown will propose giving California school districts an additional $1 billion to implement new, more rigorous academic standards and boost funding for his K-12 funding overhaul by an additional $240 million in the revised budget he will propose Tuesday, administration officials told The Associated Press.Monday, May 13, 2013
