Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Golden Eagle seeks new charter from county
With Golden Eagle Charter School's current charter nearing its June 2008 expiration date, director Shelly Adams said that parents of the school's students will speak at a public hearing next week before the Siskiyou County Board of Education. The school is in the process of petitioning the Siskiyou County Office of Education to sponsor a new charter.Stockton Unified bond needed to retire hundreds of old portables
When Adams Elementary School Principal Pam Whitted walks across her urban Stockton campus, she sees two things: the first is a small classroom wing built in 1954 that holds first- through third-graders; the second is a separate small school of worn-down portable buildings anchored in the 1980s that house her fourth- through eighth-grade students.Coaches start mentoring program for El Camino HS athletes
When El Camino High School athletic director Trace Deneke heard a statistic that more young football players ended up in trouble than athletes in other sports, he decided to start a mentoring program to help his players stay on track.Teachers and district close, but haven't finalized contract
They're close, but not quite there. Eureka City Schools teachers and the district are still discussing several points, including contract language and additional duties teachers would take on if their contract is approved as-is.English-speaking program gets parents involved
Sanjuana Alanez, whose 9-year-old daughter, Mariela, is a fifth-grader at Montalvin, is part of a new attempt by the West Contra Costa Unified School District to reach students who struggle most to learn English. The nine-week program trains parents to use the electronic dictionaries so they can work with their children at home on English proficiency -- without speaking the language themselves.School plans to close book on contractor
Contra Costa College leaders are preparing to cut ties with a contractor they say left the school's library unfinished. Administrators said they warned Oakland-based Krama Inc. repeatedly and withheld about $700,000 of the $4.2 million contract from the company because of construction delays. But instead of speeding up the project, the contractor simply packed up and left the San Pablo campus in September.New school district picks chief
The board governing the new K-12 school district in northern Sacramento County named Frank Porter interim superintendent Tuesday night. Porter, superintendent of Rio Linda Union School District, becomes the first employee of the district that will take effect July 1.Plan to open high school gets approval from county
The Bonsall Union School District cleared another hurdle this week in its petition to open its own high school.Fresno eases rules on vendors near schools
Mobile vendors will be able to sell ice cream and other foods near school campuses at night and on weekends after the Fresno City Council voted Tuesday to change an ordinance that previously barred those sales year-round.FUSD, union at odds again on contract deal
A day after the Fresno Unified School District and its teachers union reached a contract deal and said they were ready to put 19 months of often bitter negotiations behind them, both sides were at odds again Tuesday.Column: State of our schools - Not all good, not all terrible
As California approaches the "year of education" that won't be, what education consultant John Mockler calls the "schools suck" industry continues to churn out information falling somewhere between distorted and flat wrong. Although California's fiscal problems are likely to limit "reform" next year to a lot of low-cost stuff, it might still be nice to get the picture right.LAUSD extends payroll repayment time
Los Angeles Unified School District officials have pushed back a deadline to recoup most of the $53 million that is believed to have been overpaid to about 32,000 employees because of its faulty payroll system.
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