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Education Headlines
Monday, December 2, 2013
FCMAT provides links to California K-12 news stories as a service to the industry. However, some stories may not be accessible because of newspapers' subscription policies.
San Bernardino County names new deputy superintendent of schools
Ted Alejandre, assistant superintendent of business services for San Bernardino County Schools, has been named deputy superintendent for county schools, according to Superintendent Gary Thomas, who made the announcement Wednesday.Employees considered former Rialto schools accountant Judith Oakes untouchable, audit reveals
For more than eight years, a district accountant stole nearly one in every four dollars that passed through the Rialto Unified School District's lunch money program, according to a forensic audit obtained by The Sun.Pleasant Valley HS classroom building almost ready for students
After years of discussion and months of construction, a two-story, 24-classroom building at Pleasant Valley High School is about six weeks from completion.Audits scrutinize Paradise Hills school
Three separate audits of Bethune K-8 school in Paradise Hills have found problems, from teacher timecards to spending of student-activity funds.Complaints against San Lorenzo principal pile up
Hostile and discriminatory -- not words you would want used to describe anyone in a leadership position, much less a school principal. For some teachers and counselors at Arroyo High School in the unincorporated San Lorenzo community, those words describe Principal Larry Smith, who has amassed more than two dozen staff complaints of various sorts since his arrival in 2006.Mongeau: Early math matters: Top researcher discusses his work
A study showing that early math skills are one of the best predictors of later success in both math and literacy has become a cornerstone of the growing movement among early childhood educators to boost math instruction in preschool through 3rd grade.Mixed reaction to iPad rollout from L.A. teachers and administrators
Their anonymous responses: Just 36% of teachers strongly favored continuing the tablet effort; 90% of administrators felt the same.Wednesday, November 27, 2013