Wednesday, October 10, 2012
An Irvine teenager with autism who broke a police car window after being restrained by staff at Irvine High School is suing Irvine Unified School District in federal court for unspecified damages.
A 1-year-old public charter school expected to earn near-perfect state test scores this year is being investigated by district officials who suspect testing misconduct.
The Preuss School UCSD opened on the university’s campus in 1999 and has collected an array of accolades over the years, including being named the top charter school in the state by researchers at the University of Southern California.
More than 2 acres of prime coastal real estate will remain in the San Diego Unified School District under scaled-back land sale approved by the board of education Tuesday.
Turning aside concerns of risk and cost, the Manteca Unified School District board voted Tuesday night to press ahead with a $30 million green energy project financed out of the general fund with ultra-low-interest bonds.
Administrators with the Santa Clara Unified School District improperly received thousands of dollars for performing accounting tasks for two outside agencies -- work done during normal work hours, an independent audit has concluded.
The Los Angeles Unified board voted unanimously Tuesday to make arts education a core part of the curriculum following impassioned pleas from students and Hollywood entertainers.
A one-year deal that uses student test data to evaluate principals was approved Tuesday by the school board, although a similar pact for teachers remains out of reach.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to share a decade of student data in an effort to figure out the best methods for raising student achievement. The district has entered into an agreement with the independent, nonprofit Los Angeles Education Research Institute (LAERI).
California has made gains in the early stages of children's academic trajectory but has failed to sustain them, a new assessment of kids' well-being has shown.
The swarm of earthquakes that rippled through Imperial County in late August has exposed more fissures in the state's system for identifying and fixing school buildings considered structurally unsound.
L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy received broad authority Tuesday to renew or end agreements by which two outside organizations run traditional public schools, including a group of schools under the control of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Larry Vanden Bos, a member of the Palos Verdes school board, values education and says recent funding cuts convinced him to support Gov. Brown's and Molly Munger's measures.
In a move that threatens to kill Gov. Jerry Brown's pivotal tax-hike initiative, a wealthy California schools advocate backing an alternative measure launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign Tuesday attacking the governor's proposition.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
A single, accidental gunshot rang out in a south Stockton seventh-grade classroom Monday morning, wounding no one but resulting in the arrests of two boys, ages 11 and 12, Stockton Unified Police Chief Jim West said.
The administrator suing San Diego Unified School District to undo her pending demotion was repeatedly criticized by people who worked for her, according to dozens of pages of records obtained by The Watchdog.
Original works by renowned Los Angeles artists will be posted on billboards and city buses as part of the "Arts Matter" exhibition and fund-raising campaign designed to revitalize arts education in LAUSD.
