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Charter school enrollment climbs in Sacramento regionas private schools lose students |
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Friday, August 16, 2013
Charter school enrollment climbs in Sacramento region as private schools lose students
Between 2007 and 2013, private school enrollment in the four-county region that includes Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo dropped by 11 percent, according to the California Department of Education. Over the same period, charter school enrollment shot up 67 percent.Reading camp addresses low test scores
Ranging from fourth-graders to high school juniors, the students enrolled in the five-week-long academy offered by the Newport-Mesa Unified School District all have one thing in common: they're behind. Or at least they scored that way over the past year on standardized tests and other assessments.Los Alamitos schools boost taxes to repay construction loans
When they ran out of money in 2011 for an ambitious classroom remodeling plan, officials at Los Alamitos Unified School District decided to keep building. Buried in financial documents obtained by the Register are the consequences of that decision: Two existing property-tax levies will unexpectedly snowball over the next 30 years, costing every homeowner thousands of dollars.Ceres opens new dual-language school
Ceres' newest school said welcome and bienvenidos to its first students, who will speak English half the day and Spanish the rest.Rialto schools chief: ‘I have not committed a crime’
The head of the school district has denied he had anything to do with the alleged embezzlement that put one former district accountant in jail last week amid accusations that high-ranking officials condoned such activity.Fontana high-schoolers get incentive to start eating breakfast
The group that created the “Got Milk?” campaign has partnered with the Fontana Unified Scbool District to challenge the district’s high school students to start eating breakfast at school.Thursday, August 15, 2013
County school board overrules rejection of Caliber charter school in Richmond
With a few caveats, the Contra Costa County board of education on Wednesday unanimously approved a charter school petition that the West Contra Costa school board rejected unanimously in May.The Parent Trigger warriors of Watts: How a Special Forces Hero and a Group of Moms Took Back Weigand Elementary
To understand how far Weigand fell, on average 54 percent of the students across all grades were proficient or advanced in math under Pasilla; under Cobian, 33 percent are. Under Pasilla, Weigand was a 5 in the Similar Schools Rankings, in which 100 socioeconomically identical schools are compared on a 1 to 10 scale statewide. But as impoverished schools continually improved statewide in recent years, Weigand fell back, plummeting to a 2 in the Similar Schools Ranking — which LAUSD Superintendent of Schools John Deasy calls "disastrous."The mostly young and Latino mothers wanted to remove Cobian by gathering signatures under Parent Trigger.