Friday, April 11, 2008
Outlook for Rio schools' fiscal health is not good
At a community forum Wednesday night, the superintendent of Rio School District broke the news of a budget crisis, as dozens of angry teachers picketed outside over union disputes and parents in the audience impatiently shouted out grievances.Safe routes to school
Simi Valley children will walk on new sidewalks, kids in Santa Paula will cross a street under flashing lights and students throughout California will get similar upgrades under a program designed to make it safer for them to walk or bike to school.Tiny district mulls charter school switch
The New Jerusalem Elementary School District will consider converting all but one of its grades into a site-based charter school following a public hearing on the proposal on April 22.Lucia Mar selects district leader
The Lucia Mar school board on Tuesday likely will hire its top candidate - an assistant superintendent in Corvallis, Ore.- to lead the South County school district. Jim Hogeboom signed a three-year contract late Wednesday night that will pay him $164,560 a year.ESCONDIDO: Elementary district still short of reducing $14 million deficit
After another night of lengthy, emotional budget discussions, Escondido Union School District trustees found themselves no closer Thursday to eliminating their multimillion-dollar deficit than they were before the meeting.Contract negotiations reach impasse at Hamilton Elementary
Negotiations between teachers and Hamilton Union Elementary School District for a pay increase reached an impasse recently that led to picketing early this week at the campus.San Ramon Valley school board looks at cuts
San Ramon Valley school trustees took a first look at possible budget cuts for the next school year this week, asking staff members to come up with additional options for cuts that district officials say would be devastating if implemented.Walnut Creek City Council to vote on school secession resolutio
A petition that could take six schools out of the Mt. Diablo Unified School District may soon get new life.School district has decided not to lay off 113 teachers
Colleen McCann, like 112 other teachers in the Vista Unified School District, had wondered since mid-March what she might do after losing her job to budget cuts. This week, she and her colleagues learned they'll have their jobs in the coming school year.2% raise agreed on for school workers
The Escondido Union School District and its two labor groups have agreed on contracts providing teachers and virtually all other district employees with a 2 percent raise.Stand-in 'student' has folks talking
Central Unified was looking to highlight the importance of school attendance when Superintendent Marilou Ryder sat in for an absent student Wednesday -- and invited the news media to follow along.O.C. protesters admonish Schwarzenegger for education cuts
Chanting "Save our schools" and "Shame on you," about 200 teachers, students and parents from across South County lined the narrow sidewalks in front of a Mexican restaurant Thursday afternoon, protesting Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed education cuts as the governor rolled up for a fundraiser.It's crunch time for Sac City's 'e21' school program
Five years after the Sacramento City Unified School District dismissed the old notion of what a high school should look like – abandoning tradition for career education and emphasizing intimacy over size – students are showing signs of success. But the longevity of that success could be in peril if more students don't buy in to the small school philosophy, and the district doesn't find more money to sustain the revolutionary but expensive effort.District will still have two bosses
If the power structure of most organizations resembles a triangle, with one person on top, the Oakland school district's will soon look more like a trapezoid. On July 1, the partially state-run school district will have two people in charge: Roberta Mayor, an interim superintendent chosen by the Oakland school board, and Vincent Matthews, an administrator chosen by the state superintendent.New interim superintendent for Oakland schools
The Oakland school board wasted no time flexing its renewed political muscle, secretly and perhaps improperly naming an interim superintendent Wednesday one day after the state restored the board's authority over district personnel.
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