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Education Headlines
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Newport-Mesa delays vote on stadium funding
Long simmering tensions over high school construction projects sent many attendees home with shaking heads Tuesday night after the Newport-Mesa Unified School District board could not decide how to distribute $15.8 million amongst three high schools.Drug-sniffing dogs coming to Newport-Mesa schools
Dogs able to sniff out drugs and weapons will pay surprise visits to middle and high school students at Newport-Mesa Unified schools this year now that trustees have approved the contract of a private detection canine company.Schools bill advances despite threat
Ignoring warnings from the federal government, the Legislature on Wednesday sent to Gov. Jerry Brown a bill that would halt public reporting of school performance for up to two years under an overhaul of the state’s standardized-testing system.Suit citing risqué school retreats settled
An assistant principal’s lawsuit that took Lake Elsinore school district officials to task for showing raunchy videos and wearing a hat adorned with plastic genitalia has been settled for $175,000, records show.LAUSD head Deasy looking to hire seven administrators for over $100K eac
LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy wants to hire seven experienced “administrative liaisons” for more than $100,000 each per year to be a link between his office and the new advisory committees created by school board President Richard Vladovic.Hayward police, schools rounds up truant students
Police and school resource officers fanned out across the city Tuesday, tracking down students who were skipping class. They put the 20 students on bright-yellow school buses, which delivered them to the district's high schools, where counselors sat down with them to learn why they weren't in school and figure out what could be done to get them to attend classes.LAUSD improving its investigations of teacher misconduct
Los Angeles Unified expects to have a team of full-time professional investigators in place by December as it implements a streamlined process for dealing with teachers accused of sexual misconduct, officials say.California Legislature sends school-test bill to Gov. Jerry Brown
After debating the relative merits and drawbacks of standardized testing, the Assembly on Wednesday sent Gov. Jerry Brown legislation allowing California schools to opt out of current statewide assessments.Wednesday, September 11, 2013