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Monday, March 3, 2014
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Community helps shape profile of ideal schools superintendent
When it comes to the next superintendent for Tracy schools, the community is looking for an experienced leader with the highest integrity, a "people person" who is approachable and accessible, and a visionary who maintains a focus on student achievement. And he or she should have a sense of humor.Greenfield Union School District names new superintendent
At its regular board meeting on Feb. 20, the meeting Greenfield Union School District Board voted unanimously to employ Harry Ervin as its new superintendent.Authorities still looking at apparent crop dusting of Stratford school bus
The Kings County Department of Agriculture and California Highway Patrol are continuing their investigation into a Thursday incident where a crop duster may have sprayed a school bus with herbicide.Retired Ceres educator helps state certify tomorrow’s teachers, administrators
Mary Jones charted the way for student instruction in the Ceres Unified School District, helping lead the district to national attention for its high rates of Latino graduations before retiring as deputy superintendent last year. Now, she is helping raise the bar for training school leaders as a member of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.Fremont schools: $157 million school bond spent properly, oversight panel says
The panel overseeing a $157 million bond measure says the school district spent the money properly to upgrade its aging 42 campuses, completing the promised work on time and under budget.Controversial lease-leaseback contracts have become popular in Mt. Diablo district
The Mt. Diablo school district routinely avoids open bidding and contracts directly with favored companies, a practice critics says is unfair and possibly illegal.Fight over school's American flag T-shirt ban likely to continue
An attorney is vowing to appeal a federal court ruling that a Northern California high school that asked students to remove American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo acted reasonably to avoid igniting ethnic tensions.Boyle Heights school protests district's decision to move campus
With fewer than 300 students enrolled, the high school is too small to be financially sustainable, schools chief John Deasy says.Effective teacher training critical to success of Common Core math
The quality of teacher training will be crucial to the success of the new Common Core State Standards in math, educators say, and the pressure is on districts to give elementary school teachers the skills they’ll need to provide students with a firm foundation in early arithmetic.
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