Friday, May 16, 2008
San Leandro, San Lorenzo teachers approve new contracts
Educators in San Lorenzo and San Leandro have approved new contracts that call for salary increases, meaning the two cash-strapped school districts will soon have to make difficult decisions to fund those raises.Budget help not enough for K-12s
Local school districts are breathing easier following an increase in education funding in the governor's proposed budget, but say staffing and program cuts are still planned.Pleasanton school trustee's residency questioned
Questions about whether Pleasanton school board member Pat Kernan lives in the district have led to inquiries by both the school district and county prosecutors.Schools take deep cuts, but mass layoffs averted
Despite earlier predictions of massive layoffs, most Santa Clara County teachers will keep their jobs this year.Schools finalizing teacher layoffs and terminations – 1,166 confirmed
Thirteen Orange County school districts have confirmed layoff and contract terminations for 1,166 educators -- not counting the 573 Santa Ana educators whose status won't be finalized until June.For Inland teachers, final layoff notices not set in stone
Hundreds of Inland teachers who received layoff notices in March learned that they will keep their jobs this week, and hundreds of others received final layoff notices. But even those who received final notice may not end up unemployed. With school districts still preparing their budgets for next year -- and the possibility of more state funding than districts now project -- many of them could be rehired by September.Protesters surround Capitol over education, health cuts
Students protested Thursday on one side of the Capitol against $3 billion in public school funding cuts, while demonstrators on the other side attacked broader, deeper slashes in health and human services programs.State grants to allow new sidewalks near two schools
Children walking to and from a pair of Visalia schools won't have to choose between dodging traffic or walking through dirt or mud after new sidewalks and crosswalks are installed over the coming year.Districts deciding how to cope with state budget cuts
Like many school systems throughout the state, Los Angeles Unified School District officials spent Thursday reviewing financial projections that will include cutting programs and services because Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's revised budget does not provide enough funding.Column: Once again, Schwarzenegger wimps out
There is – or at least should be – only one standard by which to judge Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest budget proposal: Does it stop the "crazy deficit spending" that he pledged to end when he was elected five years ago, or at least make significant progress toward fiscal responsibility?
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