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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
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Alpine teachers, district 'getting back on track'
Healing and reconciliation have officially begun in Alpine.As scrutiny intensifies, Centinela Valley school board will hold public meeting Tuesday
Amid heightening scrutiny from school officials and lawmakers across California, the Centinela Valley school board tonight will hold its second meeting since the furor over Superintendent Jose Fernandez’s employment contract erupted in early February.Rialto Unified has not started search for Cebrun's replacement
Harold Cebrun will remain the superintendent of Rialto Unified for almost three more weeks, and the search has not yet begun for his successor.Officials: No active chemicals found on Kings County school bus
The children who got sick last month while riding in a school bus in rural Kings County apparently didn't get sprayed with dangerous pesticides, county officials said Monday.Dutch educators take tips from San Diego schools
Although international rankings show United States schools below their European equivalents, a group of Dutch educators are in San Diego this week to learn some teaching techniques from their American equivalents.Denair Unified looking to reduce teachers at charter school, hire chief business officer
The Denair Charter Academy, serving mostly at-risk high school students, would lose 12 hourly teachers next year under a proposal to be voted on tonight at a special meeting. The Denair Unified School District board also will convene Thursday night for its regular meeting, expecting to hire a permanent chief business officer.Modesto City Schools votes to to send layoff notices, end elementary library course
Modesto City Schools will send out pink slips to eliminate the equivalent of 29 full-time teaching and counseling positions, which could create a domino effect of shifting jobs but likely will result in few actual layoffs.Freedburg: Gov. Brown again takes aim at burdening students with tests
Governor Brown took aim at excessive testing in the schools – an ongoing theme of his governorship – and warned lawmakers in Sacramento and Washington not to burden teachers with more demands than they are already experiencing in forceful remarks at the California Democratic Convention in Los Angeles over the weekend.Fensterwald: San Jose Unified, teachers to ask State Board for waiver from tenure law
In the ongoing trial, Vergara vs State of California, lawyers for the state and the California Teachers Association have been defending the state’s two-year probation for teachers as a sound law that protects teachers’ and students’ interests.Adams: State attorney general backs legislation to fight truancy
State Attorney General Kamala Harris and a team of legislators Monday introduced a package of bills to battle chronic student absenteeism, in yet another sign of the growing reexamination of school attendance and discipline policies.Monday, March 10, 2014