Tuesday, February 12, 2008
New schools chief will take office early to tackle 'crisis'
Saying the city school district is in a "crisis situation," San Diego's new superintendent said Monday he will take office March 24 - about three months early - to prepare for up to $80 million in budget cuts that will likely call for the elimination and reduction of jobs and programs.San Marcos USD updates transfer policies
San Marcos Unified trustees voted Monday to update board transfer policies so that high school students who are denied requests to transfer out of the school district must meet with their principal before filing an appeal.Poway school district adopts hate behavior policy
After several racial incidents and months of discussion about hate behavior in schools, the Poway Unified School District adopted a revised hate behavior policy Monday night.Modesto school board OKs seizing land near Gregori site
Modesto City Schools can seize parts of several properties around Gregori High School in Salida if agreements are not reached with landowners within the next month.Modesto school workers' personal data lifted
A computer hard drive holding the names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers of Modesto City Schools’ 3,500 employees was stolen early Monday from a Southern California data processing firm, district officials said.Long Beach USD calls foul on school batting cage improvements
Some parents of Lakewood High School baseball players are upset that the school district today may remove some improvements to a batting cage because the alterations had not been approved by district officials.LAUSD searching for PCs, software
Up to $400 million has been spent on new computers and software for classrooms, but the Los Angeles Unified School District has not tracked where all of the new technology has gone, officials said Monday.Trustees to place bond measure on June ballot
On the heels of passage of Orland's successful bond election, trustees at Willows Unified School District declared their intention of putting their own bond measure on the June ballot.Willows schools face gloomy budget forecast
As the state budget crisis gathers over Glenn County, officials at Willows Unified School District are preparing for the worst. "The worst-case scenario is that we are going to have to cut $1 million from the budget," said Steve Olmos, WUSD superintendent, at a meeting this week of the board of trustees.Budget squeeze starts to show
A sense of just how tight local schools' budget squeeze might be surfaced this week during a meeting of the Durham Unified School District board of trustees. Under most circumstances, a pair of Durham High School field trip proposals on the board's Thursday consent agenda would be approved without so much as a blink. But this week they were pulled for discussion.Durham's "red shoes" lady excited about the schools
If you run into Barbara Gaskin, ask her about the "red shoes" incident. She will smile. She might blush, but she will probably tell you the story. Gaskin is the newly installed superintendent of the Durham Unified School District.They bend over backward to get into West Campus
More than 40 percent of the students at West Campus High School come from families poor enough that they qualify to get their school lunches for free - or at least for a bargain. One-third of them live in homes where relatives speak languages other than English. Yet it is the most sought-after secondary school in Sacramento City Unified School District.Secure in their studies
All of a sudden, Markham Middle School, a habitually violence-plagued campus that sits amid seven street gangs, can boast of some surprisingly homey touches: a washer and dryer to clean students' clothing; new furniture in the teacher lounges and the police office; board games and foosball for students in the multipurpose room. And the students -- all 1,600 -- are wearing coordinated uniforms with new, matching white sneakers.Payroll system beset from Day 1
In the weeks leading up to the launch of a new payroll system, Los Angeles Unified School District officials had plenty of warning that the $95-million technology project would have serious problems. Still, consultants hired to implement the system urged the district to proceed as scheduled in early January 2007.Lawsuit challenges state special education hearings
A federal class-action lawsuit filed last week on behalf of a Fallbrook family alleges that state officials who decide disputes between parents and school districts over special education services are unqualified, inadequately trained and side with districts too often.School officials 'heartbroken' over budget cuts
The prospect of losing $4.5 billion in education funding next year - as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed - has rattled districts around the state. But even as school leaders scour their budgets for potential cutbacks, they are mobilizing to stop those cuts from happening.Mechanics sue, say school buses were unsafe
San Francisco school buses were used to carry children when they should have been grounded because of mechanical problems and concerns over safety, two mechanics alleged in a lawsuit made public Monday.
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