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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
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Kern High School District superintendent to retire
Kern High School District Superintendent Don Carter has announced that he will retire at the end of the school year. Carter has been with the district for 38 years, serving as superintendent for the last 10.District paid $900,000 to settle whistleblower lawsuits
The Kern High School District has agreed to pay two former employees a total of $900,000 to settle wrongful termination lawsuits. John Fox and Clemon Williams Jr., former assistant directors in the district's maintenance and operations department, sued in September 2011, saying they were fired after calling attention to problems in the way maintenance contracts were awarded.Norwalk-La Mirada school board takes first step toward $375 million bond
The Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District Board of Education Monday took the first step toward placing a $375 million bond issue on the ballot in November.Anti-AB1266 referendum's fate hinges on LA County signatures
Unless signature-gatherers in Los Angeles County got a higher rate of valid signatures than their counterparts in 52 other counties, an effort to halt a new law giving additional legal protections to transgender public school students looks doomed.California Democrats propose universal preschool for 4-year-olds
In a move that would broadly expand public education, California Democrats on Tuesday proposed creating universal preschool for 4-year-olds, to try to enroll more children from immigrant and low-income families.LA Unified staff received free iPad before contract
Los Angeles Unified School District employees received free iPads from the global curriculum company Pearson as part of a 2012 conference sales pitch - and one of them later served on a district team that selected Pearson and Apple for a contract to provide every student and teacher with a tablet, according to testimony Tuesday.Tuesday, January 7, 2014