Monday, February 4, 2008
Educators get ready to face 'catastrophic' budget cuts
Local educators are searching for budget savings this school year and bracing for what some called "a day of reckoning" under the governor's spending plan for the next fiscal year.Little school touts big successes
Bear Valley's high school and elementary school are different from most schools. For one, they share a building. For another, they're buried in about 10 feet of snow. Most unusual, they have 19 students combined. But the differences seem to be working for the little school that could - almost every high school student that has graduated from Bear Valley went on to college.Trinidad school bucks local trend, gains students
In the heydays of the 1960s, Trinidad Union Elementary School has so many students the administration had to set up temporary buildings in the playground to accommodate all the young learners. While those days are a very distant memory, the small school is taking a divergent path from many North Coast schools with a recent boost in enrollment.Online classes in Kern High School District?
What if high school history didn't mean a classroom with 30 other kids? Instead, a student could settle into a comfy chair at home and log on to a history chat-room. That's the vision of a Kern High School District trustee who has been tossing around an idea for Web-based classes in the 37,000-student district.A healthy approach to education
In recent years, many school districts have focused more on training students to ace that English or math test than whipping them into shape for the mile run in gym class. But the West Contra Costa Unified School District wants to change that.Pittsburg schools scramble to find savings
Figuring out how to slice as much as $5.2 million from its approximately $72 million annual budget will be the focus of a special meeting Tuesday of the Pittsburg Unified School District board.Enrollment drop hits school district in wallet
Fewer students in Escondido schools has translated to a loss of $9 million in state funding over the past four years, and enrollment isn't expected to increase anytime soon.Bond measure's backers back it with bucks
Poway Unified School District's bond measure campaign took in nearly $140,000 in contributions last month, with most of the money coming from companies that do business with the district and from a contractors' political action committee.South Bay considers November bond vote
South Bay Union School District officials are doing the advance work for a possible November bond measure of about $45 million.S.B. schools chief's office to be headhunter, mentor
In his nine years at the helm of the San Bernardino County schools office, Superintendent Herbert Fischer says he has worked with 87 district superintendents. That number is way too high, Fischer said. In an effort to slow superintendent turnover countywide, Fischer's office is offering its services as a headhunter of sorts for districts looking to fill their top spot.Home sales hit Visalia schools
The construction slump that has seen building permits for new homes tumble by 40% over two years also is taking a toll on the money used to build new schools in Visalia.Lots of South Valley school money up for vote Tuesday
South Valley voters will decide the fate of school projects in four Tulare County communities Tuesday, including a $20.7 million bond measure for a new elementary and high school in Lindsay.State students doing better in math, science
More California students are doing well on higher-level math and science tests now than in 2003, according to education researchers who say the state's fastest-growing job markets - from software engineers to gaming dealers - demand knowledge of math and technology.Schools scramble to find questionable meat
Leave no patty unturned, no meatball overlooked. That was the mandate late last week as school district officials across the Southland tried to identify all meat that had come from a Chino-based slaughterhouse accused of distributing ground beef from at-risk cattle.Dream deferred for schools
Likely coming soon to a public school near you: ballooning class sizes, a wave of teacher layoffs and more outdated textbooks - courtesy of the spiraling state deficit. What a difference a few months - and a projected $14.5 billion budget deficit - make.
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