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Friday, August 30, 2013
Camarillo annexes 28-acre site for new high school
The Camarillo City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved the annexation and zoning change for a 28-acre site for a new high school and performing arts center.Grants help Stockton USD boost API results
Forty-two months, two superintendents and three grant proposals later, Stockton Unified finally has learned whether seven struggling K-8 campuses would benefit if they received federal dollars aimed at improving schools identified by the state as "persistently low-performing."Stockton USD police chief decision may come today
Board members have given Superintendent Steve Lowder the authority to choose between two undisclosed candidates to serve as the interim replacement for retiring Stockton Unified Police Chief Jim West.Freedberg: Federal education law traps schools in spiral of failure
Nearly a dozen years after President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind law, its deepest imprint may be its labeling of 90 percent of California’s schools serving poor children as failures.Madera Unified teachers ratify new contract
Madera Unified School District teachers ratified a proposed salary-and-benefits contract Wednesday night, a move that could put an end to more than a year of rocky discussions between district administrators and classroom employees.State's schools are getting healthier
School districts in California and nationwide are getting better at providing healthy environments for students, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week.New LAUSD technology panel tackles details of iPad project
A day after LAUSD handed out iPads to kids at two of its campuses, the school board’s Technology Committee started its own deep dive into the program that will put a tablet computer in the hands of every student by this time next year.John Swett school district taps longtime San Ramon Valley administrator as next superintendent
The tiny John Swett school district has chosen a longtime teacher, football coach and administrator from the much larger San Ramon Valley school district as its new superintendent.Fensterwald: Goodbye, API - Get ready for rough transition to better system of measuring schools
Say farewell to the API as you know it. Welcome to new era of accountability, with at least a couple years of confusion in between.Baron: Academic Performance Index declines for the first time in a decade
For nine of the last 10 years, scores on California’s standardized tests steadily rose, showing the testing system did what it was supposed to do and raised student achievement. That streak ended and exposed an ongoing achievement gap with Thursday’s release of the 2013 Academic Performance Index, or API.Thursday, August 29, 2013