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Horizon Charter School faces board vote amid complaints

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Horizon Charter School faces board vote amid complaints

The fate of Horizon Charter School and its 2,700 students is in the hands of Western Placer Unified's school board after allegations of fiscal mismanagement and complaints from parents.

Capo Unified prepares for influx of students

A new campus serving kindergartners through eighth-graders is likely to be the first school built by the Capistrano Unified School District to accommodate students growing up in Rancho Mission Viejo, a large housing development under construction east of Ladera Ranch and San Juan Capistrano.

Whole set of South County transcripts

U-T Watchdog has been covering the release of grand jury transcripts in the South County corruption case brought by District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis involving more than 200 charges against 15 officials and contractors at two school districts and one community college. We're posting all the transcripts below, and we've used optical scans to make them searchable.

Adult ed classes return to Sweetwater

Teachers and students in the Sweetwater Union High School District applauded during a board meeting Monday as Superintendent Ed Brand revealed a recommendation to reinstate adult education cuts.

LA Unified school board member wants changes to California's Parent Trigger law

California’s Parent Trigger law has been used five times to try and overhaul low-performing schools. Three of those were in the L.A. Unified School District. School board member Steve Zimmer has proposed a resolution up for a vote at Tuesday’s meeting calling for new restrictions.

New LAUSD board member Monica Ratliff seeks' end to 'business as usual'

Having spent more than a decade teaching in a Los Angeles Unified classroom and chatting with colleagues, Monica Ratliff's perception of the district administration was a hive of bureaucrats toiling away in the downtown monolith known simply as Beaudry. But after an intense three-day orientation last week at the Beaudry Avenue headquarters, the newest member of the school board said she actually foun

New teacher training study decries California universities

A new front is opening in the education wars as a report released Tuesday derides California's teacher training schools as among the worst in a nation full of substandard programs.

Monday, June 17, 2013

Small schools anticipate funding cuts

As the Legislature prepares to pass Gov. Jerry Brown's state budget, educators in five of Siskiyou County's small schools are anticipating a significant loss of funding, and the fate of these institutions remains unknown.

Teachers in Upland say cuts hit them unfairly

As the June 30 deadline to approve a balanced budget looms, Upland Unified School District and its teachers are still in contentious negotiations that have teachers worried about their financial stability.

Ontario-Montclair School District teachers reject contract offer

The contract, which OMTA members rejected in the third week of May, called for teachers to work a 15-minute-longer workday in return for a 2 percent pay hike.