Pacific Law Academy Spanish teacher Charles Ulmschneider will leave work two periods early this afternoon, then travel 167 miles to Visalia, where he serves as an elected member of the Visalia Unified School District Board of Trustees.
The Alisal Union School District Board of Trustees is preparing to muzzle itself — at least partially — at its meeting Wednesday.
School districts with high concentrations of English-learner students are facing a new challenge in ensuring that parents who need language translation are informed of their role under the funding formula for schools.
The additional funds are modest at first. But over the next six years, the money coming to local school districts is going up by 80 percent in some cases. And officials need to involve parents, teachers and other community members to discuss how that money — often thousands of dollars per student — can be spent to improve education.
Galt Joint Union Elementary School District teachers are expected to receive a 5 percent pay raise under a tentative agreement approved by the union on Friday afternoon. The action ends stalled contract negotiations.
The Centinela Valley Union High School District has scheduled an emergency meeting for Tuesday, providing the first opportunity for the public to address the board since a series of Daily Breeze articles detailed the big-money politics in the tiny district serving Lawndale and Hawthorne.
A standing room-only crowd of at least 500 parents and students turned out for a meeting at Nicolas Junior High School Monday, many applauding the swift response by administrators and police to a report of sexual misconduct by a teacher with two male students.
Moving beyond the lunch line, new rules that will be proposed Tuesday by the White House and the Agriculture Department would limit marketing of unhealthy foods in schools. They would phase out the advertising of sugary drinks and junk foods around campuses during the school day and ensure that other promotions in schools were in line with health standards that already apply to school foods.
A tentative agreement between striking Alpine teachers and the Alpine Union School District was reached in the earliest hours on Tuesday after a fourth day of negotiations.
Modesto City Schools board members on Monday gave a vote of confidence to coaches serving as mentors, heard teacher comments on proposals for their next contract and received an upbeat report on enrollment. The board voted unanimously to make permanent a trial program allowing participation in sports and leadership classes despite two or more bad citizenship marks. Citizenship is a report card category.
Gov. Jerry Brown met privately with about 20 Stanislaus County law enforcement and public education officials Monday, as he promoted his administration’s efforts to change where criminals are incarcerated and how schools are funded.
A referendum to overturn a new California law that provides transgender students certain rights in public schools will not appear on the November ballot because its backers failed to gather enough voter signatures to qualify the measure, the secretary of state said Monday.
Sacramento County health officials are testing dozens of Grant High School students for active tuberculosis after a classmate was diagnosed with the infectious disease.
Monday, February 24, 2014
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.
