Monday, April 14, 2008
Some home-schoolers balk at tests
April may be the cruelest month for charter schools that serve home-schooled students. That's because April is when California public school students take the STAR test. STAR stands for Standardized Testing and Reporting. And standardized is exactly what charter schools - and home-schooling families - are not.Charter schools' rise weighs on districts
Financial problems that threaten to close at least one charter school in Pasadena highlight the role school districts play in approving and ultimately overseeing these independent schools.Popular 20-to-1 classes at risk
Many school districts in California face pressures this year to drop the popular state class-size reduction program, but district officials in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties say they intend to continue it.School waging all-out battle against bad behavior
Behavior cards are just one of the tactics that Antioch Middle School began using this academic year to reduce discipline problems while giving these students the coaching they need to succeed in life.El Dorado schools seek to patch things up in tough times
While it may not be the proper time to ask the public for money, supporters of a school bond in El Dorado County say funds are critically needed to renovate and modernize aging high school campuses.School bus drivers could face layoffs
Those big yellow school buses might become less of a familiar sight when students return to San Marcos Unified School District after a summer off.School may be shuttered
San Lorenzo Middle School in King City may shut down if administrators are unable to find other ways to overcome a deficit of about $1.3 million, officials said Friday. "Up until a year ago, San Lorenzo Middle School was a junior high, and then we opened Chalone Peaks," said Rory Livingston, interim chief business officer for both the King City Union School District, to which San Lorenzo belongs, and King City Joint Union High School District. The two districts share administrators.Some school workers face schedule reduction
Principals, librarians, cafeteria workers and other support employees in the Escondido Union School District may see their work schedules reduced by seven to 12 days next year in a effort to trim an unbalanced budget.District assessing amount for bond issue
The Lakeside Union School District wants to place a bond measure on the Nov. 4 ballot to help pay for modernization projects. The school board voted 5-0 Thursday to authorize the district to do the advance work.Parcel tax to bolster schools is proposed
The San Diego Unified School District has yet to decide whether to put a bond measure on the November ballot that would raise money to repair and possibly build schools.School district's nurses must wear many caps
The stereotype of school nurses doing little but applying Band-Aids is wrong, said Meg esavento, who has worked for the San Marcos Unified School District for 20 years. The jobs of school nurses have become increasingly complex ever since all children got the right to a free public education in 1975.LAUSD payroll fiasco may bring W-2 woes
For thousands of Los Angeles Unified School District employees, tax time this year has been even more stressful than usual.Column: Schools begging, and we're all the poorer for it
My column Wednesday about the growing cost of public education seems to have touched a nerve in a state where we've moved way, way beyond candy sales and pancake fundraisers.Column: Arnold vs. Arnold
Education cuts and reform campaigns can be the drinking and driving of California politics. Each carries certain risks when pursued separately. Combined, they can be deadly. This is a truth that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has found hard to accept.Per-pupil spending rankings all relative
Does the amount of money spent on each public school student in California, with the world's eighth-biggest economy, rank near the bottom among states or near the middle?
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