Some local schools resolved what were minor communication hiccups and computer glitches in early rounds of the testing they administered last week. Others will begin the testing in assessment windows that start Monday and later this month.
A bill that seeks to ban school and community college administrators from soliciting or accepting campaign donations for their elected officials cleared its first hurdle Tuesday, passing the state Assembly’s Elections and Redistricting Committee.
Californians can now see where their Proposition 30 education tax dollars are going and how the money is being spent thanks to a new online tool launched by the state Controller’s Office Wednesday.
Not everyone in the public schools is in a rush to use the technology of the new millennium. Monterey Bay Charter School, for example, does not introduce students to computerized learning until sixth grade. As a result, the first- through eighth-grade school in Pacific Grove has encountered a philosophical clash at the computer as field testing for the Common Core State Standards begins next week.
Senate Bill 1266, by Senate Republican leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, would require school districts to give EpiPens to trained personnel to provide emergency medical aid to anyone suffering from a severe allergic reaction.
Twin Rivers Unified unfurled a five-month plan Wednesday to correct heating and air-conditioning problems at Grant Union High School and Harmon Johnson Elementary School.
Federal rules require students to take at least three items each day, but an L.A. Unified manager wants to change the policy to reduce the $100,000 in food thrown away daily.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
In an era of shrinking public investment in schools, parents have struggled to hold the line one school at a time. Since the pre-recession year 2007, elementary school PTAs in San Francisco collectively managed to more than quadruple their spending on schools. But school district finance data, PTA tax records and demographic profiles reveal an unintended byproduct.
A citizens committee that oversees bond money for the Sweetwater Union High School District said Tuesday during a special meeting that the school board has some improvements to make with regard to funding priorities.
What started last year with an affluent elementary school in Carlsbad helping a Vista school in a poorer neighborhood has grown into series of projects in which students from both campuses learn from each other and grow.
Federal rules require students to take at least three items each day, but a Los Angeles Unified School District manager wants to change the policy to reduce the $100,000 in food thrown away daily.
A principal at a Winnetka elementary school has been removed and an investigation launched, a Los Angeles Unified School District spokesman said Tuesday.
Despite interest and compromises by San Jose Unified School District, the charter school and residents, the effort fell victim to volatile charter-school politics. The agreement to create Downtown College Prep Middle was cemented in September, but the school remains homeless for 2014-15.
