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Friday, September 20, 2013
KCSOS updates policies after disabled child forgotten on bus
The father of an 8-year-old autistic boy who was discovered abandoned on an otherwise empty school bus said he's not appeased by new safety measures the Kern County Superintendent of Schools office has added since the incident last week.Water, school meals cost Conejo Valley district unexpected $6 million
Spiraling water costs and poor sales of school meals cost the Conejo Valley Unified School District slightly more than $6 million in unforeseen costs in the last school year.Moorpark school board discusses changes at continuation school
Moorpark Unified School District board members have been meeting with staff members at Moorpark Community High School to work on changing the school into "a career and technical education-themed high school."Santa Ana Unified may announce new superintendent Tuesday
The board of the Santa Ana Unified School District may announce the appointment of a new superintendent at its meeting on Tuesday. “It is on the agenda to discuss and possibly name the appointment,” said Deidra Powell, the district spokeswoman.District, Alliant back to drawing board
The Sweetwater Union High School District recently pulled its application for a conditional use permit to operate a satellite campus out of the National City Adult School.Grant to fund officers for every Modesto high school
The $1 million grant awarded this week to the Modesto Police Department will fund eight new school resource officers, enough for every large Modesto high school and the Elliott alternative campus to have a full-time presence.Teacher accused of molestation previously arrested for sex abuse
A former El Sereno Elementary School teacher accused of molesting three former students was arrested on sexual battery and lewd acts on children in 2010, but the charges were dropped because of a lack of evidence, authorities said Thursday.Peter Schrag: How are the schools doing? This year, don’t ask
Gov. Jerry Brown’s George Wallace act seems just a little forced. Standing defiantly against the feds in the schoolhouse door as the Alabama governor once did is probably not his shtick. But Brown, who this week suggested American schools were just fine before the federal government “intruded in education,” seems to be trying. For a bright guy, that was about the silliest thing he ever said.Fensterwald: Teacher, two superintendents to hold key positions on funding law’s new agency
Consistent with the goal of shifting power over education decisions away from Sacramento, the Local Control Funding Formula law creates a new agency to work with, not dictate to, local districts on how to meet their improvement goals. In the first step toward launching the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, the Legislature this month determined that a teacher and two superintendents will form the majority on its governing board.Thursday, September 19, 2013
