Friday, March 7, 2008
Schools want more choices
County educators demanded Thursday that California lawmakers reject Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's call for 10 percent across-the-board cuts and look at alternatives. "The governor's budget does not prioritize education," San Joaquin County Office of Education Superintendent Frederick Wentworth said in a news conference before about 350 school officials, teachers, board members, parents and other educators.Vista USD delays opening of magnet high schools
Vista Unified School District's proposed magnet high schools will now cost between $43 million and $62 million, depending on what options trustees decide to add later this month. After hearing a report Thursday on the increased cost, district trustees voted to delay opening the dual high school campus until the fall of 2009.Clerical jobs to be cut as teachers dodge layoffs
An undetermined number of clerical and support workers will lose their jobs as part of school officials' efforts to cut next year's budget by $14 million. Thirty-one teaching and administration positions also will be abolished through retirements and attrition, said Jane Smith, Fontana Unified School District superintendent.Acalanes OKs layoffs to trim school budget
The Acalanes high school district will lay off the equivalent of nearly nine full-time teachers and 18 full-time support staff members to help close a $2.5 million budget shortfall, its governing board decided Wednesday night.Elementary schools to be fixed
The West Contra Costa Unified School District board, facing tough decisions amid dwindling Measure J bond funds and a construction to-do list a mile long, this week did an about-face by informally agreeing to build Nystrom and Ohlone elementaries but halt construction for the three high schools.John Swett trustees continue to seek ways to trim budget
To reduce costs amid the state fiscal crisis, the John Swett Unified School District board this week approved a second round of cuts to next year's budget.Protests launched over plan to cut agriculture program
The agricultural program at Ramona High School, offered continuously since 1957, and its Future Farmers of America affiliation have been targeted by the school board for eliminationFewer teachers, larger classes envisioned to trim $15.5 million
Classrooms will be more crowded and as many as 180 teachers could lose their jobs under Poway Unified's preliminary plans to cut $15.5 million from the 2008-09 budget.Riverbank school district braces for cuts
In anticipation of bearing some of the state's budget burden, Riverbank Unified School District has started positioning itself to make budget cuts in May.Home-schooling may remain OK in Kern County
Bakersfield parents who home-school their children are trying not to panic after a court said the way they teach their children is illegal. The ruling might not even affect them, though, because Kern County is in different judicial district.Berkeley schools brace for budget burn
Berkeley's school district is planning to cut about 50 positions, including teachers, college advisers and counselors, to close a proj-ected budget shortfall.Meaner bullying is leading schools to find new tactics
Bullying -- once largely restricted to stolen lunch money or hallway shoving that were taken somewhat lightly -- has grown increasingly serious, officials, parents and students say.Homeschoolers' setback sends shock waves through state
A California appeals court ruling clamping down on homeschooling by parents without teaching credentials sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution.CalSTRS cuts state a break
Trustees of the California State Teachers' Retirement System agreed Thursday to allow the state to reduce its contribution to a supplemental pension plan as long as payments from the fund to teachers never dip below a fixed rate.
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