Friday, May 23, 2008
Layoffs approved at Durham schools
Durham Unified School District has seen the end of budget cuts for this year, said business manager Connie Cavanaugh. After a series of emotional and sometimes cantankerous meetings over the last couple of months, the board of trustees unanimously approved a list of layoffs for non-teaching personnel Thursday.Orland schools lay off, hire, wipe out deficit
The last pieces of the budget puzzle fell into place for Orland Unified School District Thursday, when the board of trustees approved reducing staffing among instructional aides by 12 positions. The board also approved hiring two administrators and agreed to extend Superintendent Chris von Kleist's contract another five years. But his new contract includes no raise in compensation.SUSD exec steps down, pre-empting forced leave
Controversy-plagued Chief Financial Officer Paul Disario was placed on voluntary paid administrative leave Thursday afternoon by Stockton Unified School District Superintendent Jack McLaughlin, pre-empting by one day the possibility that he would be placed on paid leave by the Board of Education.School buses receive A's during inspection
The push rod that projects from the air-brake chamber of a 1988 Crown Coach school bus can travel 2 inches before an orange ring is exposed. Showing even the slightest bit of orange means the brakes are out of adjustment, which could mean the bus won't stop as quickly. It's one of the checks that turned out just fine, however, in this year's inspection of Escondido Union High School District buses by the California Highway Patrol. And so did everything else.Declining enrollment could lead to school closures
Student enrollment has declined so dramatically in the last eight years — by some 15,000 students, or 27 percent — that the Oakland Unified School District might need to close 10 to 17 of its more than 100 schools, the district's CFO told the school board during a special meeting Thursday night.More schools get good marks on academic index
California's annual ritual of ranking public schools by performance on standardized tests provided some pleasing news Wednesday: More schools are reaching the desirable mark of 800 points on the state's Academic Performance Index.
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