Thursday, April 3, 2008
Local schools adjust to budget cuts
With the California education budget cut of $4.8 billion looming in the future, Siskiyou County schools are not exempt from the fear that many school employees and activities will be lost due to cuts in funding.'Scared' parents plead for schools to stay open
The Ojai Unified School District, like districts throughout California, is bracing for a possible 10 percent cut in state funding for the 2008-09 school year. Making matters worse, Ojai's enrollment has dropped for the past eight years, further reducing the funding it gets based on the number of students.Shop classes send out S.O.S.
Dwindling enrollment in high school elective classes such as wood shop and auto shop is bothersome for Michael Self. But, even more bothersome, Self told the Lodi Unified Board of Trustees on Tuesday night, is that high school counselors are advising students not to take elective courses.SAN MARCOS: School board hears retirement plan
About $175 million in unfunded health benefits for retirees from the San Marcos Unified School District could be covered by selling, investing and collecting the interest on bonds, a financial consultant told trustees Wednesday.Novato school board taps reserve fund to save some jobs
The Novato school board agreed to tap $1.2 million from a reserve fund to avoid some program cuts and, in a separate move, saved the jobs of a dozen teachers who had been notified of possible layoffs.Board OKs $7M technology plan
A three-year plan that dramatically increases technology spending at the Claremont Unified School District was approved unanimously this week by the school board.Scotia gets funds to buy its school from Palco
After three and a half years of meetings, plans and applications, the Scotia Union School District, the only public school district in California to be privately owned by a company, will finally be able to purchase its school site from the bankrupt Pacific Lumber Co.In God We Trust posters going up
Some 2,300 once-disputed In God We Trust classroom displays have arrived at the Kern High School District and are in various stages of being pinned up, district spokesman John Teves said Wednesday.T-shirts show school's 'true colors'
The work doesn't stop even though the job does.These words have become all too familiar for educators in Aliso Viejo and nearby cities who received layoff notices following the Capistrano Unified School District's approval to cut 265 K-12 teachers last month. In an act of support for those with pink slips, faculty members at Don Juan Avila Elementary School on Tuesday wore white T-shirts with the slogan "No child left behind" – the word "teacher" was inserted into the phrase with a red arrow.Modesto School board rejects stipend reduction
Modesto City Schools board members will hold onto their $750 monthly stipends, but agreed to halve their travel and conference budget as they grapple with making deep cuts to next year's budget.San Leandro schools consider parcel tax
School officials will study how receptive voters would be to a November parcel tax, the school board decided Tuesday evening. A projected $4.5 million loss in revenue next year due to possible cuts from the state has prompted district staff to consider public support.Defending home-style ABCs
The Browning and Curto families, both of whom live in the South Bay, have embraced very different styles of education. But they now find themselves on the same side of a battle to continue teaching their children at home in the face of an appellate court ruling that home schooling in California must be conducted by credentialed instructors.Long Beach school district is a finalist for Broad Prize
The Long Beach Unified School District was again named a finalist Wednesday for the prestigious Broad Prize, which honors academic excellence and strong performance by minority and poor students in urban districts across the nation.Letter writers hope to kill school cuts
Seventh-grader Madeline Rickard sent a letter to the governor this week and stuffed a petition inside the envelope. She collected 344 students' signatures protesting proposed state budget cuts in one day at Medea Creek Middle School in Oak Park.It was the day she heard that her favorite teachers might lose their jobs — fallout from school districts preparing to cut millions of dollars from their budgets.
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