SB 1381 also funds transition kindergarten California has now joined nearly every state in requiring that children be five years old when starting kindergarten.
Hours before the midnight deadline for deciding on legislation, Gov. Schwarzenegger signed a bill that will move up the cutoff for kindergarten from Dec. 2 to Sept. 1 and fund an extra year of transition kindergarten for those 4-year-olds who no longer will be eligible for regular kindergarten because of the change.
The passage […]
“Green jobs” in conservation and alternative energy will require workers exposed to careers in those fields and trained in emerging technologies. But a bill to create 97 green high school career-tech academies was killed last night by Gov. Schwarzenegger.
The academies under SB 675 would have been financed by diverting $8 million from a small ($.00022 [...]
The Los Angeles Unified School District disclosed that the elementary school teacher who allegedly took his own life in response to the Los Angeles Times’ publication of an analysis critical of his teaching effectiveness, actually received a “great performance” evaluation by the district in July.
In a statement released Thursday, Deputy Superintendent John Deasy said, “In [...]
Gov. Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would ensure that the Texas Board of Education’s revisionist view of American history won’t taint California textbooks.
Schwarzenegger called SB 1451 “duplicative and unnecessary.” It probably was unneeded though not necessarily for the reasons he cited. Last year, Schwarzenegger suspended the state Curriculum Commission for four years, making it [...]
Friday, October 1, 2010
My grandmother's favorite poem ends with the line,
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!' "
So much might have been so much better in California had Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and some feckless members of the Legislature not put their no-taxes pledge ahead of our children's destiny. With $17 billion in spending cuts in education over the past two years, many of the initiatives that were showing such promise are being axed by a penny-wise, pound-foolish set of policies.
In 1995, when I proposed cutting class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, then-
Cal fans may be stunned by the decision to cut five sports teams. But few familiar with the burden that...
California's public university foundations, which manage some $1.6 billion across dozens of campuses...
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State colleges and universities filed tuition flexibility plans with the state Department of Higher Education Friday, the first such requests under a new state law that gives institutions greater control over tuition rates.
As of 5 p.m., the department had received e-mailed plans from the University of Colorado System, Metropolitan State College, Mesa State College and Fort Lewis College. The Colorado School of Mines notified the department it was not applying, according to Dawn Taylor Owens of DHE.
From left, the campuses of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, the University of Colorado-Boulder and the Auraria Higher Education Center.
A spokesman for the Colorado State University system told Education News Colorado that a plan would be filed.
The catastrophe of last week’s dance party incidentally suppressed a piece of propaganda that is, at least for critique, worth a read. In the past year, the dance party played as an accompaniment to the wave of occupations that struck California. In particular, the parties were methods of physical outreach to students in order to witness an occupation, or were otherwise a useful distraction from our lives, yet still holding a vague evocative spirit of unrest and resistance. As the dance party last week was attacked by police and ended prematurely, this piece of propaganda was only circulated amongst a few people before the party ended.
A Dispatch from the Dance Party
The dance party begins because we’ve come together to enjoy each others company and to do so collectively—
GRADE SHOCK: REGULAR SCHOOLS TOP CHARTERS, October 1, 2010, New York Post
…Traditional public schools bested the city's charter schools on annual report-card grades -- scoring 10 points higher on average on a 100-point scale, new data shows.
The city's more than 1,000 public elementary and middle schools averaged a B on their so-called "progress reports," which assign letter grades to schools based largely on how much students improve on state math and reading tests in a given year.
By comparison, the city's 60 charter schools that received letter grades this year averaged a C+.
"This means that either the strategy Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor [Joel] Klein have touted s
Waiting for Superman, a new documentary by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, has caused a stir in the education world for its sweeping endorsement of the charter school movement and attack on teachers unions. President Obama has endorsed the film, describing it as "heartbreaking" and "powerful," but some teachers have called for a boycott of the film for its portrayal of teachers and
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