Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Local school districts mull baccalaureate program
Nevada Joint Union High School District and Grass Valley School District are planning to introduce a new option that would allow students to take classes under an international baccalaureate program.College crunch time
Each year, students sweat out the January deadlines to apply to private schools. Along with the applications, students must submit test scores, essays, transcripts and letters of recommendations from teachers and counselors.Legacy may impede new charter official
You'd be hard-pressed to find a person more qualified to assist charter schools than the new director of the charter division for the Los Angeles Unified School District. In recent years, José J. Cole-Gutièrrez has personally helped dozens of these schools find loans and locations, and aided in myriad other ways, while also lobbying on their behalf before state and local officials. But that has created thorny conflicts of interest that limit -- at least for a year -- what he could be allowed to do.Cutting dropout rates also fights crime, study says
The numbers presented in "School or the Streets: Crime and California's Dropout Crisis" are stark. Simply increasing the graduation rate 10% would prevent 500 homicides and more than 20,000 aggravated assaults each year in California, according to the report.Educators map out studies for VUSD magnets
Now that Principal Rodney Goldenberg has hired five teachers to help him get Vista Unified School District's new magnet high school campus open in August, he said he's excited to start putting together the schools' curricula. The school board hired Goldenberg last month to lead the two magnet schools, which will share a campus on 66 acres near the intersection of Highway 76 and Melrose Drive in eastern Oceanside.Audit: textbook shortage, unqualified teachers at LA-area schools
Auditors found textbook shortages, unqualified teachers and deteriorating campuses plaguing eight campuses in the Los Angeles and Centinela Valley school districts.Jurupa school board's open hostilities dismay public
For more than a year, since allegations surfaced in 2006 that Rodriguez had accosted and threatened a female district employee, Jurupa school board meetings have been a battleground -- racked by arguments, name calling and allegations of religious intolerance.
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