Monday, February 25, 2008
John Swett trustees postpone parcel tax
The John Swett school district will not seek voter approval of a parcel tax to help offset cuts to next year's budget.Group aims to alter district election
Since its inception, the West Contra Costa Unified School District has held at-large elections for board members, meaning that candidates can live anywhere in the district and stand before all voters who reside within its boundaries. A community group is interested in changing that.School board may propose new parcel tax
The San Ramon Valley school district may soon ask voters to approve a parcel tax in June which, if passed, would extend the existing schools property tax at a higher rate.Pay rates create division in teachers union
Westwood Elementary School teacher Bryan McShane still can't understand. His teachers union, typically a champion of higher salaries, voted down a raise in summer school pay. By his calculation, he will lose $800 this year because the union took a stand against the district.School board's letter rails against prison
Antioch School Board President Walter Ruehlig will read a letter at Tuesday's County Board of Supervisors meeting, asking officials to drop an area near Deer Valley High School from a list of possible sites being considered for a transitional state prison facility.1,400 students skip school due to 'Love Gram'
A threatening message printed in the Savanna High School newspaper prompted more than half of the school's students to skip classes today and an increased police presence to ensure the safety of students who did come to school, officials said.School board gives Shores-site fundraisers a 30-day extension
The campaign to buy the old Del Mar Shores school property by Thursday is nearly $4 million short, and organizers say they need another year to raise money.Charter school is approved by board
An eventual kindergarten-through-12th-grade charter school may open in East County as early as this fall. The Grossmont Union High School District's Governing Board voted 5-0 Thursday to conditionally approve a petition to create Liberty Charter School within district boundaries.School district superintendent might be leaving
Tom Bishop, superintendent of the Del Mar School District since 1998, is poised to resign. Bishop has had a rocky relationship with the school board since late 2006, when trustees Katherine White and Steven McDowell joined Annette Easton to form a board majority.School district to issue 133 layoff notices
The Vista Unified School District is handing out layoff notices to 133 employees, mostly teachers, as the district – like many others around California – grapples with potentially deep state funding cuts.School district looks to cut $80 million from budget
Campus nurses, librarians and police officers could become scarce. The smallest elementary schools could close, be forced to share – or lose – their principals. Classroom enrollments could climb. The looming funding cuts facing the San Diego Unified School District lost their anonymity yesterday.State chief of schools condemns cut plans
In a Friday afternoon news conference in West Oakland, the state superintendent of public instruction called Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts to education "a hostile act" and predicted that California teachers would receive a record number of pink slips under the plan.Wrestlers grappling with infections
Young wrestlers, health officials, coaches and parents are scrambling to stay ahead of contagious skin diseases -- including a new and life-threatening strain of staph infection.River City High tries to reduce failure rate
Students are failing core subjects, such as math, sciences and English, the records show. River City Principal Stuart MacKay says the failure rate is unacceptable, but it's an improvement from past years.Column: School cuts put our future at risk
School districts across the state are reeling, with Long Beach closing an elementary school, L.A. Unified wondering how to manage an estimated $560-million deficit, and Rialto authorizing layoff notices for 305 employees, as my colleague Jason Song reported. In other words, the state's most valuable resource, more than 6 million public school students, is also its most imperiled.A different kind of home schooling
Teachers work with immigrant parents to help them help their young students catch up. One goal is to prevent future dropouts.Inland school districts brace for cuts to funding -
State budget woes prompting pink slips for teachers and other school employees have Inland educators feeling anything but rosy.
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