Education Headlines
Friday, June 7, 2013
MORENO VALLEY: Residents challenge school board member’s appointment
A petition was filed to remove the Moreno Valley school board member appointed to replace Mike Rios. Residents are seeking to void the appointment of Gary Baugh and force an election. They have about 2,000 signatures and believe they need about 1,500.Deputy Mayor Joan Sullivan named CEO of Partnership for LA Shools
Joan Sullivan, the education deputy to outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, has been named CEO of the 22-campus Partnership for Los Angles Schools, officials said Wednesday.Santa Clara Unified: Administrators, principals flee turbulent school district
Since a power shift in November, the Santa Clara Unified School Board has been accused of micromanaging, chiding and intimidating employees, usurping their roles and making abrupt decisions that muddled school operations. Now, as the school year ends Friday, more than one-fifth of top staff, including Superintendent Bobbie Plough, two assistant superintendents and six principals, have decided to step down from their posts, many fleeing the once-respected district.Oakland: Judge grants embattled American Indian Model Schools temporary reprieve from shutdown
More than a thousand American Indian Model Schools pupils will be able to start summer school later this month after a judge Thursday prevented the embattled charter school from being shut down by issuing a temporary restraining order against the district.New Haven school board to establish process for hiring new superintendent
New Haven Unified School District has begun the process of finding a new superintendent, board president Linda Canlas said.Moms want GMOs out of school lunches
Zen Honeycutt, 40, of Mission Viejo is co-founder of Moms Across America, formed to rally support for California's Proposition 37, the genetically modified organism labeling measure rejected by voters in November. She is now working with other local moms to remove genetically modified ingredients from the food served in school lunchesTroubled Oakland charter schools to stay open
A trio of controversial Oakland charter schools slated for closure at the end of this month can continue to operate as they move through the appeal process, an Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.State tells schools to repay lunch money
The San Diego Unified School District has been ordered to pay back $13.4 million that the state says it improperly diverted from its cafeteria funds to pay for custodial and utility expenses.Fensterwald: No agreement yet on holding districts accountable for new state money
Gov. Jerry Brown’s new school funding system is based on the idea that school districts, not Sacramento, should be given control over spending and then held accountable for students’ results. But with time running out to work on details of the Local Control Funding Formula, negotiators from the Assembly, Senate and the governor’s office have yet to agree on what, when and how districts should be judged.Fensterwald: Funding reform worries potential ‘loser’ schools within ‘winning’ districts
Until now, the greatest tension over Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed school finance reform has been largely among districts: a political tussle between unhappy suburban and optimistic urban school factions over how new education dollars should be divvied up. But signs of discord in Los Angeles Unified indicate that the same battles over money may eventually play out among “winner” and “loser” schools within large diverse districts – like Oakland, San Diego and San Jose – that have both high- and low-income schools.Thursday, June 6, 2013
