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Education Headlines
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Belleview Elementary School answers grand jury
Belleview School District will review its hiring and job assignment policies at the recommendation of the Tuolumne County Grand Jury, the school board promised Monday in its formal response to the 2013 jury report.Twin Rivers school board lays off top human resources managers
Twin Rivers Unified School District trustees Tuesday night voted to lay off the top three managers in the district's Human Resources Department.Hayward mayor to swear in interim superintendent
Mayor Michael Sweeney will swear in Stanley Dobbs as interim superintendent at Wednesday's school board meeting. Dobbs was hired by trustees to replace Donald Evans, who took over as Berkeley superintendent at the beginning of July.Affeldt: California moving away from Washington’s corporate education reform
California’s shift to a new weighted student funding model represents just the most recent example of how Democratic state policymakers here are charting a different course in education policy than the Obama Administration and Congress.L.A. Fund unveils Shepard Fairey art project in LAUSD campaign
Los Angeles Unified on Tuesday unveiled its final public arts project under a recent campaign -- a bold graphic by contemporary artist Shepard Fairey that will be displayed on bus wraps and hundreds of billboards promoting the importance of creativity in education.Fensterwald: Irritation or two aside, charter leaders pleased with new funding system
California Charter Schools Association chief executive Jed Wallace turned rhapsodic in a message last month to charter school operators summarizing the impact of the new school funding system on their campuses. The Local Control Funding Formula represents a landmark victory, he said, a sort of Brown v. Board of Education moment for the charter school movement.Tuesday, July 23, 2013