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Education Headlines
Friday, July 19, 2013
Oxnard School District moves closer on Seabridge school
The Oxnard School District board Wednesday approved a draft agreement with the city of Oxnard on a joint-use park next to an elementary school planned for 2021.Evaluation: School board struggles with teamwork, respect
The Desert Sands Unified school board believes it works well — just not together. As a whole, the school board members are appropriately focused on student achievement and district progress, but individual members struggle to work as a team and show each other respect. This is the most interesting of the findings from the school board’s first self evaluation, which was discussed during a board meeting earlier this week.School district may reconsider reimbursement vote
Public outcry regarding a Sweetwater school board decision not to reimburse a member of the bond oversight committee for travel has the school board president considering a do-over.Grant helps military kids in school
More than 6 percent of students enrolled in the San Diego Unified School District are military dependents, a population that has given educators an increasing cause for concern.Hughson, Empire school districts close to moving to geographic elections
The Hughson Unified and Empire Union school districts are one meeting closer to electing school board members by geographic area, a move meant to guarantee representation for minority communities.Autistic boy bullied and abused by LAUSD aide at Valley View Elementary, attorney says
A 10-year-old autistic child at a Los Angeles Unified School was bullied and physically abused by an instructional aide for six weeks, leaving him with post-traumatic stress disorder, an attorney told a jury today.House poised to leave 'No Child' behind
Republicans lined up Thursday behind a bill that would roll back the federal government’s involvement in education, despite concerns earlier this week that the party’s more conservative members weren’t on board with the legislation.Among Mountain Fire evacuees: students attending summer program away from family
With fire threatening this San Jacinto Mountains town, about 6,000 residents were forced to evacuate for their safety, with the potential for embers flying into the town from the nearby Mountain Fire. Among the evacuees were a large group of students and faculty from Idyllwild Arts Academy, a local visual and performing arts academy, forced to evacuate to Hemet High School on Wednesday.Frey: Older adult and parent ed programs left out of adult education budget compromise
An effort to narrow adult education’s core mission is being met with resistance from advocates for older adult and parent education programs, which would lose funding under a budget compromise crafted by supporters of adult education and Gov. Jerry Brown.LAUSD proposes transformation of arts education program
Five years after Los Angeles Unified's arts programs were devastated by the recession, district officials want to pump millions of dollars into arts education and integrate dance, music, theater and the visual arts into core academic classes.Thursday, July 18, 2013
Fresno Unified officials plan for extra $15 million
Fresno Unified could get millions of dollars in public funding through the state's new local control funding formula, which some local officials say should be used to enhance career technical education programs and slash class sizes.Ex-superintendent will temporarily run San Juan Unified School District
General Davie Jr., a former superintendent of the San Juan Unified School District, has been selected for a return engagement. The district board, during a special meeting Wednesday night, appointed Davie as the district's acting superintendent, effective immediately, according to a district news release.Upgrades coming to Anaheim schools
Modernization projects are underway at several campuses within the Anaheim City School District, including the $30 million reconstruction of Marshall Elementary School.LAUSD's grumpy old man Richard Vladovic could squelch reform
For the first time in six years, the politicians on the L.A. Unified School District Board of Education, responsible for educating one in every 10 children in California, have chosen a new president, the inscrutable Richard Vladovic. ASanta Cruz County middle school students begin career development camps
Santa Cruz County middle school students are learning job skills such as editing videos with FinalCutPro, creating Flash animation and installing computer hard drives at Santa Cruz County College Commitment's Cabrillo Youth Summer Institute camps this summer.Small Calif. publisher wins public records case
A state Court of Appeal has ruled that a small-town California newspaper publisher does not have to pay legal fees to a school board he sued over his public records request —a decision hailed by First Amendment advocates as a victory for government transparency.Fensterwald: A new K-12 funding system demands new thinking in building local budgets
As the most sweeping change in K-12 school funding in decades, the new school finance system that took effect this month will require school officials to clear their minds of old formulas and assumptions and to think anew in constructing their budgets.Hall selected Bonita assistant superintendent
Long-time Bonita Unified administrator Nanette Hall has been selected as the district's new assistant superintendent of educational services.Chico schools will see more math added to graduation requirements
Math offerings and graduation requirements are going to be changing in Chico high schools, but precisely how the program will be implemented won't be known for at least several months. The discussion of math classes on the high school level has been spurred by change in admissions requirements at both the University of California and the California State University systems.Wednesday, July 17, 2013