Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Money flows for Stockton USD's bond
Those ubiquitous purple-and-gold signs supporting Measure Q didn't spontaneously rise from the ground. The campaign fliers filling mailboxes in the Stockton Unified School District didn't print themselves, either.New Bonsall Elementary opening pushed back
Bonsall Elementary students won't move into their new $23 million school until they return to classes in August, nearly five months later than the March opening administrators announced last month.Carlsbad district gears up for budget fight
School officials in Carlsbad say they are formulating a three-pronged response to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed education cuts that includes lobbying state legislators to resist the governor, sweet-talking local sources for donations, and sharpening the budget scythe for drastic classroom cuts.School closures likely inevitable
Nobody wants their child's school to be the one to close, but one or more campuses in Ontario-Montclair School District will likely have to shut down due to declining enrollment.Chico USD freezes nonessential expenditures, hirings
Chico Unified School District froze all unnecessary spending and hiring Tuesday, said Jan Combes, assistant superintendent of financial services. The freeze will affect out-of-district travel, districtwide meetings and conferences, and adoption of new textbooks, among other things.Teachers pressing for more pay in Panama-Buena Vista
More than 100 teachers clapped and roared Tuesday night at a Panama-Buena Vista Union School District board meeting whenever an employee spoke for increased pay. Dozens shared the same applause outside the building.Two L.A. Unified schools take back control
A venerable, ailing school got the official word this week on a long-awaited cure to its high dropout rate and low test scores: Crenshaw High will fix itself. That is the reform concept approved by parents and teachers at Crenshaw and also at Westchester High when they voted their schools into the new Innovation Division of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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