While larger school districts are cutting funding to libraries to focus more on technology, the Bassett Unified School District plans to invest $80,000 in upgrades tailored toward shelves and other furniture focused more on print books.
Nearly seven months after Fresno Unified and seven other California school districts got one year of relief from strict federal accountability rules for student academic performance, administrators are now looking to reapply for flexibility from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind law.
Superintendent Jose Fernandez was going through his second bankruptcy and had lost his family home when the Centinela Valley Union High School District threw him a golden lifeline in 2012 — a $910,000 home loan with no down payment to be repaid at 2 percent interest over 40 years.
Local school districts are spending millions of dollars to buy new computers to prepare for the computerized testing the state will require in the next school year, as well as the practice tests that begin next month.
Marathon negotiations over the weekend between the Alpine Union School District and its teachers union didn’t produce a contract agreement, setting the stage for more picketing by teachers Monday.
More than 800 teachers spent Saturday learning about the latest innovations in educational technology during a daylong conference at Gregori High School. From social media platforms and digital tools to iPad applications and Chromebook curriculum, dozens of tech topics were explored in classroom workshops.
Soon, high school students will film movies and produce television shows in a new $6 million digital arts studio with a 3,100-square-foot sound stage, a control room, an editing suite, a voice-over room and a TV studio complete with several cameras and a teleprompter.
The school district has postponed to June 2016 a start date to either tear down and rebuild or renovate the seismically unsafe Glenview Elementary School, and officials acknowledge they could do a better job of communicating their plans to area neighbors.
San Diego Assemblywoman Shirley Weber says the state has long centered education policy on the assumption that students attend kindergarten. But kindergarten is not mandatory in California — a shortcoming some say has left too many children unprepared for their first day of school and possibly causing them to fall farther behind in later grades.
Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy made a rare appearance before a City Council committee on Tuesday, marking the potential start of a closer relationship between City Hall and the school district.
That desire to infuse public education, as well as the design industry at large, with a sense of engaged citizenship and real-world purpose is at the heart of "If You Build It," as well as central to Pilloton's recent experiences teaching construction know-how to students at the Realm Charter School in Berkeley.
Budget cuts leave about half of the Los Angeles Unified School District's elementary and middle schools without librarians, and thousands of students without books.
Friday, February 21, 2014
The Dolores Huerta Foundation has launched an online petition asking the Kern High School District to broaden its search for a successor to retiring Superintendent Don Carter.
Ian Smith sued the Kern County Superintendent of Schools office for almost $2 million after suffering a raccoon bite at the KCSOS-run California Living Museum in 2010. He won't be getting a penny.
Stockton Unified has received a bond rating upgrade that district officials said will save taxpayers $1 million in the upcoming $65 million sale of Measure E bonds.
The school board met again Wednesday night without deciding the fate of Superintendent Harold Cebrun, who has been out on leave for more than five months.
The first day of a teachers strike in the Alpine Union School District ended with differing conclusions: Administrators described a smooth Thursday at all five campuses, while picketing teachers said many students didn’t show up for school and that some classes lacked substitute instructors.
The Riverside school board will discuss preparation of its Local Control Accountability Plan at a special meeting Monday, Feb. 24. All California school districts must create a plan to go with the state’s new Local Control Funding Formula.
Inland school districts are trying to figure out what to do about new federal health care rules that call on them to give benefits to some substitute teachers.
Next month, the state Assembly education committee will begin discussing legislation to require that school employees receive child abuse reporting training every year.
In response to allegations made by parents of players, Antioch High principal Louie Rocha has placed five Panthers baseball coaches, including head varsity coach Ben Juarez, on administrative leave while the Antioch Unified School District investigates the matter.
Sixteen years after California voters approved an initiative requiring public school instruction in English, state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) introduced a measure Thursday to repeal the requirement of Proposition 227.
