Wednesday, April 2, 2008
West County district set to vote on cutbacks
If proposed budget cuts take place, the West Contra Costa Unified School District will be a different organization next year -- operating with fewer typist clerks, instructional assistants and accounting technicians, among others, and getting by with about 60 fewer teachers in the classrooms.San Jose 'honored' for low dropout rate
While some bigwigs in the nation's capital on Tuesday lauded San Jose for having the eighth-lowest dropout rate among 50 American big cities, the reaction locally was . . . huh?City students less likely to graduate than suburban kids
Students in urban public school districts are less likely to graduate from high school than those enrolled in suburban districts in the same metropolitan area, according to research presented Tuesday.Disabled students required to pass exit exam
High school seniors in special-education classes will be required for the first time this year to pass California's exit exam to qualify for a diploma after lawyers for the disabled failed to get them an exemption.Column: Statistics refute rhetoric on school spending
California's perennial debate over how much it is and should be spending on its largest-in-the-nation public school system has escalated sharply this year. But the Census Bureau on Tuesday issued an extremely detailed accounting of what states (and the District of Columbia) are spending on their schools. It undercuts the mantras being chanted by both of the Capitol's warring political factions.
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