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| Sally Ride Born May 26, 1951, in Los Angeles, California. Died on July 23, 2012 |
Education Headlines
Friday, August 24, 2012
Alisal school district board won't reduce services at Family Resource Center
Facing pressure from community members and leaders, administrators at the Alisal Union School District have backpedaled on instructions to redirect services from their family resource center to their school sites.Riverbank district OKs final budget that assumes tax hike fails
Trustees have passed a revised $22.3 million budget for the 2012-13 school year that continues the school district's deficit spending and could leave the district without any cash by May.LAUSD to ban Styrofoam food trays at all school campuses
Superintendent John Deasy told students at a Los Feliz middle school on Thursday that, thanks to their campaign, Styrofoam food trays will be banned at all Los Angeles Unified School District campuses.Fresno County profiles kindergartners for literacy
Fresno County's largest school districts have rolled out a program that will assess how prepared kindergartners are for school and flag problems that appear during a child's first weeks.Moraga School board tackles policy in wake of abuse scandal
Administrators got their first look this week at a revamped school policy designed to prevent child abuse and facilitate its reporting, but one official expressed concern about a perceived loophole he believes could allow for a failure to report abuse.EdSource: Fuentes agrees to compromises on AB 5: Are they enough?
At the 11th hour, the author of the bill to rewrite the teacher evaluation law has offered compromises intended to placate opponents and to qualify the state for a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law. The latter may work, but probably not the former.Thursday, August 23, 2012
