Monday, April 21, 2008
San Joaquin schools scrambling to help seniors pass exit exam
A projected 15 percent of San Joaquin County high school seniors have not passed the California High School Exit Exam for the 2007-08 school year and will not graduate with their class.Bill will ease recruiting of teachers
With the persistent concern of a looming teacher shortage, a new bill aims at clearing away barriers that sometimes deter out-of-state teachers and those seeking to become educators from entering the classroom. SB 1186, authored by state Sen. Jack Scott, D-Pasadena, would reduce some hurdles in credentialing for teachers, particularly in the areas of mathematics, science and special education.Funding struggles put Healthy Start in unhealthy position
Local Healthy Start programs are scrambling to survive the state's budget crisis.The programs, which provide counseling and tutoring to poor children and help their families meet basic needs, often have to scrounge for funds to keep afloat. Now they may be unable to count on help from sources whose own funds are being cut as the state wrestles with an estimated $9 billion deficit.Budget ax may fall on high school's child-development class
A child-development class that has been offered for almost 30 years at San Marcos High School is expected to be eliminated next school year.School district approves layoffs of librarians, cleaning crews
Librarians and cleaning crews at Escondido elementary schools face layoffs in the coming year in the district's newest round of budget-trimming induced by the state's fiscal crisis.Lunchtime computerized for county students
The lunch cafeteria has gone high-tech. The Cajon Valley Union School District has a lunch-payment program called MealpayPlus that offers parents the convenience of online payments, secure access and even a feature to automatically replenish their child's school lunch account.Hundreds protest school budget cuts
Teachers, parents and children marched by the hundreds yesterday in hopes of stopping major budget cuts and teacher layoffs that are threatening schools across the state. The downtown rally began in Balboa Park and ended at the state government building on Front Street.L.A. teachers union targets pact on charters
Launching a pitched battle against Los Angeles Unified over plans to dole out more space for the growing charter-school movement, the teachers union said Wednesday that it will aggressively campaign against traditional schools sharing sites with the popular independent schools.Schools struggle with rising food costs
The rising cost of food is hitting cafeterias across the nation hard, prompting some schools to scale back their offerings and in some cases raise lunch prices.Out-of-state districts recruit California teachers
Precious Jackson was among a wave of teachers hired in recent years as California raised education spending to cut class sizes. Now she is at the mercy of state legislators who are negotiating more than $4 billion in education cuts proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to combat a budget shortfall caused by the housing slump and a stagnant economy.Students join effort to fight school cuts
San Jose's Overfelt High School students handed out postcards urging the governor, "Please don't kidnap my dreams." The Angry Tired Teachers, a rock band from Hayward, are taking a statewide "Cuts Hurt" bus tour. College students plan to march Monday in Sacramento and Los Angeles.LAUSD tries to rally parent support as deep budget cuts loom
Even as Los Angeles Unified faces the deepest budget cuts in years, district officials are doling out more than a quarter of a million dollars for a communications strategy designed to deflect criticism and build public support amid looming cutbacks.Allegations followed educator as he climbed the ladder
An assistant principal charged in the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old student rose through the ranks of the L.A. school district despite accusations of having dated another pupil.Public schools seek private money just to cover the basics
A free public school education is guaranteed by the state Constitution to every California child. But as districts grapple with proposed state funding cuts that could cause the layoffs of thousands of teachers and inflate class sizes, parents are being asked to dig deeper into their pocketbooks to help.Home schooling: Parent-teachers aim to prove skeptics wrong
Home-schoolers cobble together a comprehensive education, one that matches their children's interests and learning styles. They carry the valley's start-up ethos to the kitchen table. So they were insulted when a California appeals court ruled in February that parents who home-school must have a teaching credential. It suggested, home-schoolers fumed, that parents can't teach.Oakland: School works to close achievement gap
That's all Monarch Academy, a small Oakland charter school, needs this year to reach the state's target of 800 on the 1,000-point scale used to judge, reward or punish a school. This is testing season in California, when students in grades 2 through 11 take a barrage of standardized tests. The final scores represent a year's worth of effort.No-driving bills would ground dropouts in California
Targeting what most teenagers lust for, California lawmakers may ban dropouts from driving in a last-ditch attempt to entice them back to school.
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