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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Monterey Peninsula USD prepares to make final settlement payment to teachers
The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District is closing a long and painful chapter as officials gear up to liquidate a debt with its teachers that dates back more than a decade.CVUSD, ADC differ on financing Arab mascot changes
If the cost of changing the mascot, logo or murals becomes too expensive for Coachella Valley High School, the national anti-discrimination group that spurred the changes will help raise funds for the school.Westminster schools hire new district leader
A veteran educator from San Diego has been hired to lead the Westminster School District. Marian Kim-Phelps officially began working as district superintendent on Nov. 18 after her contract was unanimously approved by the district’s Board of Trustees on Nov. 14.Twin Rivers board votes 5-1 calling for trustee Quinn’s resignation
Trustee Cortez Quinn was not at the Twin Rivers Unified School Board meeting Tuesday night, but it didn’t stop the board and parents from calling for his resignation.Teachers association, district head toward impasse
Members of the Sweetwater Education Association came out in force Monday to the Sweetwater school board meeting to protest what they say are contract violations.San Jose council deadlocks on Rocketship charter school in Tamien neighborhood
After more than three hours of debate, a deadlocked San Jose City Council late Tuesday voted to defer action after falling a vote short of approving construction of a new charter school that has long divided a low-income San Jose neighborhood.Science, math, and at last parents’ common sense for Common Core
California’s science and math aficionados gathered in Sacramento this week to talk about grand plans to improve standards in these fields, starting in kindergarten, with the end goal of matching the state’s grads with high numbers of highly skilled and unfilled jobs in those fields.iPad software licenses expire in three years, L.A. Unified says
Renewing licenses could cost $50 to $100 per iPad, about $60 million annually, despite earlier statements that the district would own the software permanently.Teachers union members, parents protest $1-billion iPad plan
More than a dozen Los Angeles teachers on Tuesday staged their first protest of a $1-billion plan to provide iPads to every student and teacher, calling the effort misguided and unsustainable.Tuesday, November 19, 2013
