The county board, acting as a committee on school district organization, on April 9 voted 3-1 for a map that divides the school district into five zones of nearly equal population.
Officials with the Fresno teachers union are urging district administrators to follow the lead of another California school district in opting not to seek renewal of a waiver from federal accountability rules.
The College Board released the sample test questions on Wednesday, offering clues to how the revised college entrance exam, taken last year by 1.7 million students, will look when it rolls out in 2016.
The committee is working on incorporating measures of career and college readiness into the Academic Performance Index, the primary measure of school effectiveness.
County, state and federal authorities are investigating the compensation of a South Bay school district superintendent who received nearly $675,000 last year, far more than the leaders of much larger systems.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Bassett Unified issued notices to lay off or reassign 13 administrators at the end of a months-long third party investigation into past hiring practices and complaints of workplace harassment.
Responding to a backlash from parents, Tamalpais High School is postponing plans to partner with New Tech Network, the Napa-based education company the school was courting to train its teachers in project-based learning. After being helmed by the same superintendent for the better part of a decade, the Bolinas-Stinson and Lagunitas school districts have a new leader. John Carroll, 50, assistant superintendent of human resources for the Tamalpais Union High School District, has been hired to oversee the two West Marin districts, who have shared a superintendent for years.
A top Centinela schools official on Tuesday said the FBI has contacted the district regarding the high salary of Supt. Jose Fernandez, who was paid $674,559 last year.
School officials voted unanimously Tuesday to increase the number of math credits students must complete to graduate from high school.
The Desert Sands Unified School Board approved raises for a majority of its employees on Tuesday night, including about 1,300 teachers in mid-valley schools. Teachers will receive a 2 percent raise, retroactive to the beginning of this school year, and an additional 1 percent raise, effective for the last 36.4 work days of the school year.
As the Inland Empire has shot up in population in recent decades, it’s become harder for school districts to be able to afford to bus students to school, due to a funding system that doesn’t account for increased enrollment. On Wednesday, Sen. Norma Torres, D-Montclair, spoke before the Senate Education Committee, pushing for their support of Senate Bill 1137, which would change the funding formula, reimbursing districts up to at least 50 percent of approved costs for Home-to-School Transportation expenses.
The embattled Centinela Valley school board on Tuesday night replaced its president and appointed a new interim superintendent to replace Jose Fernandez, who was placed on paid leave after coming under fire for extraordinary compensation.
Leaders of the Fresno Teachers Association union say they're baffled by statements made by Fresno Unified Superintendent Michael Hanson that the two parties -- which have been embroiled for months in a standoff over teacher contracts -- have settled on a third-party mediator.
Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan (D-Alamo) says she’s brought the California Teachers Association and the school reform group EdVoice together on an issue that’s split the education community for years: How to allow districts to quickly fire teachers accused of sexual abuse, child abuse or serious drug crimes.
California’s school funding reform law has triggered a burst of outreach efforts to solicit parent and community input in at least some districts – along with a plethora of suggestions about how to spend the additional education funds they will receive from the state.
