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To combat flu illness absences, Stockton Unified has been proactive in offering vaccines at all of its schools.
About 80 teachers from the Bellflower Unified School District lined the blocks in front of the district headquarters on Clark Avenue on Thursday night with signs requesting higher salaries in a silent march before the Board of Education meeting.
The district is moving toward a model in which all of its 8,000 students with moderate-to-severe disabilities receive some sort of vocational training.
After more than a decade of budget cuts and a bout of hiring freezes, Clovis Unified is changing course and planning to recruit several dozen new teachers.
A cheating scandal at Corona del Mar High School, which surfaced publicly last month, first came to the attention of school officials and the police six months earlier, when a teacher reported that “someone had possibly accessed her computer and altered student's grades,” according to a search warrant for the home of a private tutor suspected in the case.
Decals have begun showing up in store windows throughout the city that warn, "This merchant will report truant students during school hours."
After years of often frustrating negotiations, the state of California has signaled its intention to sell part of the shuttered Agnews Developmental Center for a high school, K-8 school and a park.
About 100 parents, teachers and West Contra Costa district staff had a chance to weigh in Jan. 15 on their spending priorities should a promised windfall from a new state schools funding formula materialize over the next eight years.
The watchdog committee for the Los Angeles school district's $1-billion iPad program is scheduled to fold, raising questions about oversight of the ongoing effort to provide every student, teacher and administrator with a computer.
California schools can expect stiff competition when the state kicks off the application process for a highly anticipated $250 million state fund for college and career readiness programs and partnerships this month.
Teaching elementary school math just got trickier, or at least deeper. The new Common Core State Standards require students to demonstrate a deeper understanding of math concepts, which means teachers will have to change how they teach those concepts too.
Friday, January 17, 2014
The template that school districts must use was approved on an "emergency" basis for the current school year, the first year the formula is in effect. But state board members stressed the regulations are temporary and would be refined to take into account input from speakers who crowded the board room in Sacramento.
Galt Joint Union High School District teachers feel that the governor’s recently released budget will be beneficial at the bargaining table as the Galt Federation of Certificated Employees union is in the midst of stalled negotiations.
The vote was in response to the district’s decision to impose across-the-board compensation cuts for teachers.
Four charter schools in Escondido will be closed Friday because of a threat against one of the campuses, school officials said Thursday night.
The defense attorney for former San Ysidro schools Superintendent Manuel Paul said in court this week that Paul is the subject of an active federal investigation and charges are likely forthcoming.
In a blow to Latino parents agitating for change, the Santa Clara County Board of Education has denied a petition to open a charter school in Morgan Hill.
Thieves halted Turlock High School’s turf management work last week, but donors have stepped forward with dollars and used equipment to get the class back on track, Principal Marie Peterson said.
