Monday, March 24, 2008
San Marcos USD's PACE Promise to go on without coordinator
San Marcos Unified School District's guaranteed admissions partnership with Cal State San Marcos will continue even though it gave up the program's coordinator position to budget cuts, district officials said last week.Two-year-old Encinitas charter school faces conflict
Two years ago, when several Oceanside teachers proposed starting an Encinitas charter school to serve the needs of intellectually gifted students, dozens of parents eagerly came forward. But that initial joy has recently been overshadowed by conflict among the very people who created the kindergarten through sixth-grade school on Melba Road.Fallbrook school staffers looking into hiring changes
Union officials in the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District said last week they want to form a commission to oversee hiring and other personnel decisions concerning bus drivers, cafeteria workers and custodians that the union represents.Top school administrators get 7.5 percent raise
The Shoreline Unified School District board approved a 7.5 percent raise for Superintendent Stephen Rosenthal and other school administrators at its meeting Thursday.Eureka school district forms idea group to guide cost-cutting
"It is just absurd to think we're already underfunded and people are considering giving even less," said Humboldt County Office of Education Superintendent Garry Eagles. “We're on the bottom of the food chain, when it comes to education -- we can't control our destiny when it comes to raising revenues -- there's only so many bake sales that schools can have."Administrative changes abound at Orland USD
Most Orland schools will have new people running them by next year, as principals and administrators retire, leave or move to new positions.Dual leadership displeases district
After nearly five years under state control, the Oakland school board is on the verge of regaining authority over the majority of the district's departments. When the agreement with state schools chief Jack O'Connell is signed and sealed, the district's elected officials will have the power to choose a leader for the city's public schools.Line for reporting residency violations
The 31,000-student Fremont Unified School District has activated an anonymous tip line for residents to report possible violators of residency requirements.Middle school addresses ethnic achievement gap
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell announced in January that closing the achievement gap has become his top priority, but Smedberg Principal Keven MacDonald might have beaten him to the punch. He started the Achievement Gap Club at Smedberg Middle School two years ago.District's education plan goes extra mile
San Ysidro's superintendent is proposing a shake-up of low-scoring schools that would cause nearly 2,000 students and dozens of teachers to switch campuses in the fall.Silverado Canyon school's bell could ring its last
Tucked away in a fold of Orange County's canyons, Silverado Elementary is an anachronism, a small-town school in a big-city district. With just 93 students and four teachers, the school is small by Wyoming standards, let alone Southern California. It's been this way for generations. Whether it will last, though, is in doubt.Sheriff's deputy becomes solid resource for Beaumont schools
As a school resource officer, Josh Adams wears a multitude of hats. He's part truancy officer, part mediator, part vocational counselor and part patrolman.Study finds record education earmarks
Congress set aside a record $2.3 billion in pet projects for colleges and universities last year for research on subjects like berries and reducing odors from swine and poultry, according to an analysis by The Chronicle of Higher Education to be published on Monday.Push for charter school divides Palos Verdes
Public schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula are among the state's highest achieving, and two of the wealthy enclave's high schools are ranked in the nation's top 100. But to a small band of parents, that's not enough.
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