Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Educators who visited England to present findings
Superintendents from school districts across Ventura County are working together to develop a pilot program to foster leadership skills among school administrators.Star seeks court order to force spending disclosure
The Ventura County Star is seeking a court order to force the Oxnard Union High School District and its insurer to turn over information about how much they're spending to fight a lawsuit filed by a former employee. Court records show that the agencies' attorney fees through May were at least $340,000.Rio School District starts choir
Edin Dino Zonic has seen war and learned weapons don't solve anything, he said. Zonic and his wife and colleague, Julia Zonic, have started an orchestra and choir in the Rio School District. The Unity Through Arts program aims to introduce children to music and give them an alternative to spending their afternoons possibly exposed to gangs or violence.Worried parents seek answers
Parents of students who could have been exposed to someone infected with tuberculosis at Paso Robles High School posed many questions to county health and school officials Monday night.Arroyo Grande classroom prank is no laughing matter
A school prank that spiraled out of control in an Arroyo Grande High School classroom Friday turned into a lesson learned for those who staged the hoax. The school’s Associated Student Body class plotted the prank - mimicking a reality television show called "Boiling Points" on MTV - in which a teacher agreed to antagonize students while a hidden video camera recorded the class.Race issues dominate Poway USD board meeting
A group of black parents and students asked trustees in the Poway Unified School District on Monday night to crack down on racial discrimination and hate with stronger discipline, accountability and a zero-tolerance policy for students and staff.'In God We Trust' poster revised
It was out with the old and in with the new Monday as the Kern High School District attempted to address actions that one couple said violated law. The board retracted its Nov. 5 vote, which ushered in a newly designed "In God We Trust" poster that citizens had neither seen nor had the ability on which to comment.Junior high reacts to gunshots
The frightening sound of gunfire striking Emerson Junior High School on Friday afternoon still echoed in the hearts and minds of parents and students Monday.District gets break on IBM payments
The bad news: The West Contra Costa Unified School District likely will have to pay for hundreds of outdated IBM computers it ordered in the 1980s and '90s. The good news: IBM officials have agreed to let the district pay the $5 million it owes over eight years instead of four, without charging interest.Los Gatos district on track, chief says
The Los Gatos Union School District has corrected flaws - including lax oversight and sloppy accounting and inventory practices - that led to a scathing state audit, outgoing Superintendent Suzanne Boxer-Gassman will report to the school board tonight.Poway district strengthening harassment policy
The Poway Unified School District is toughening its policy on harassment and hate behavior after a series of incidents on campuses, including nooses being found at two high schools.Jury awards teacher $1 million in discrimination lawsui
A former third-grade teacher has won a $1 million judgment in a lawsuit against the Chula Vista Elementary School District because she was released shortly after becoming pregnant.Moreno Valley students attend 'one-room schoolhouse'
If North Ridge Elementary School in Moreno Valley made visitors feel like they'd stumbled upon some long-lost corner of "Little House on the Prairie," then the fourth-graders did their job. For the past month, the three fourth-grade classes combined to create a one-room schoolhouse, the fictitious "Apple Valley School" set in 1854 as part of a social studies unit.Column: To many parents, homework's a home wrecker
My column Saturday on the campaign by a San Marino mom to persuade school officials to cut back on "useless and ineffective" homework assignments uncorked a storm of bottled-up angst among readers, from Santa Monica to Pasadena to Orange County.Charter schools safer, quieter, report finds
Charters are "quieter and less disruptive than traditional public schools" that serve students of similar background and have the same population size, according to the report by the National Charter School Research Project based at University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education.Districts required to provide driver education, yet few do so
The California Education Code requires all school districts to offer driver education classes for free, but it's not enforced, said Robert Lee, a consultant with the state Department of Education.LAUSD pays for fliers backing mayor's plan
Los Angeles Unified officials have sent thousands of fliers urging parents and teachers to let Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa manage some district schools in what critics decried Monday as a biased campaign that misuses taxpayer funds.
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