A bill aimed at preventing students from languishing in alternative schools is on its way to the governor, after passing its last hurdle in the Legislature on Tuesday.
County-run community schools and district-run community day schools are meant to be a temporary rehabilitative placement for expelled and truant students, not a permanent placement, said supporters of Senate Bill 744, introduced by Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Long Beach. Yet students and families say they often are kept in the schools for extended periods of time without clear guidelines for returning to traditional campuses.
The bill would revise current law to provide a number of safeguards against the misuse of these schools. Some of those safeguards include:
- Limiting the kind of probation referrals that
Majority of cities are coordinating after-school programs, survey finds - by Susan Frey
A survey released Tuesday found that more than half of large cities are coordinating after-school programs for youth – a new development that can help provide access to quality programming for all students, according to the researchers. “Historically the after-school field has been decentralized and uncoordinated, with different types of programs – ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit the