Friday, February 1, 2008
Education trustees' travel costs scrutinized
Travel expenses for Ventura County Board of Education members came under scrutiny this week after a planned trip to Washington, D.C., caused some heated debate among trustees.Videotaped brawls put schools in pickle
Grainy footage of a fight at Vallejo's Jesse Bethel High School has been watched more than 4,000 times on the Internet. But as officials look at the video-recorded fisticuffs, they are wondering what else is being posted. In an age when legions of tech-savvy teens are uploading and sharing digital images online and carrying cell phones with built-in video cameras, questions arise about privacy risks.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.Skateboarding in school allowed - and for credit
Fillmore Middle School is one of the first schools in California to offer the skateboarding instruction, said Eric Klassen, 37, a co-owner of Skate Pass.Moving cars part of daily lesson
Parking in San Francisco is rarely easy or cheap, but at Buena Vista in the Inner Mission neighborhood, as well as at a handful of other schools across the city, parking is an obsession - taking up valuable staff time, disrupting learning and killing morale, school officials say.State urges schools ban suspect beef
The California Department of Education on Thursday urged school districts throughout the state to stop serving all but a few beef products after allegations that a Chino-based meat supplier butchered and distributed weak or ill cattle.
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