Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Measure H a big concern for businesses
Some Alameda business owners, already feeling the pinch of the economic downturn, said they will vote against the Measure H parcel tax on the June 3 ballot, which is intended to raise millions for the cash-strapped Alameda Unified School District.Desert Sands Unified School District says task force's application tainted
It's up to the U.S. Department of Education to investigate allegations about Indio Youth Task Force's application for a grant program worth more than $17 million, a state official said Friday. Desert Sands Unified School District asked the state's department last month to look into the nonprofit agency's application for the federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program Grant. The district alleges the application contains "false information" and "forged signatures" of school officials.Housing market fallout hits schools, too
Southwest Bakersfield’s new high school wasn’t supposed to go up in the middle of nowhere. But dead and delayed development means Independence High School towers over a knee-high skyline of mostly row crops and empty lots instead of suburban tracts that surround it on paper.Arts inequity divides rich, poor
When parents have the desire, and the cash, they can dramatically boost arts programs in schools. California lags the nation in arts instruction given to children, and such parent donations mean that children at wealthy schools get more of it than do children elsewhere, according to a study of California arts education released in 2007.Schools hope to raise, lengthen tax in June election
Four years ago the San Ramon Valley school district fought hard to pass a parcel tax, losing once before reaching success months later in a second attempt. In less than two weeks, district officials will know if voters approve of their proposal to continue that property levy for several more years — at a cost nearly double the current $90 tax, to continue some services and add others.Brentwood principal creates culture of inclusion
Break the Barriers is a traveling performance group that includes members who have Down syndrome and cerebral palsy. Some are deaf or in wheelchairs. Their winter performance motivated students, parents and teachers to look beyond disabilities, and was the highlight of Ability Awareness Week at the Brentwood campus.Column: Novice English teacher learns his lessons quickly
On Tuesday I drove across the railroad tracks that separate Watts from South Gate and rolled up to a collection of bright, yellow, box-shaped buildings that resemble a giant poundcake baking in the sun. At Southeast, which opened four years ago, all but nine of the 1,367 students are Latino, and more than one-third are still learning English.Most schools dodge layoffs
Most area school districts will manage to avoid layoffs, but officials say the impact of the state's budget crisis on educational programs remains unclear.California's new teachers are ready but have no place to go
New teachers hoping to find positions near their homes are being forced to seek work in other parts of California, across the United States, even overseas, and some are applying to private and charter schools.Schools still come up short in Schwarzenegger's latest budget
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's May budget proposal gives more money to schools than he suggested in January, and meets the minimum guarantee schools are owed under state law. And his latest proposal increases school spending next year by $200 million over this year – but it's an amount education advocates say is paltry compared with their needs.'Neglect' cited as part of problem at Locke High
The impending transition from a traditional school to a charter school has left Locke High in a difficult purgatory, said students, parents, teachers and administrators, and may have contributed to tensions that boiled over into a campuswide melee involving about 600 students earlier this month.Lagging middle schools targeted
Alarmed by slumping student achievement at Los Angeles Unified middle schools, district officials are moving this summer to roll out several programs designed to improve performance amid criticism that middle-schoolers have been overlooked for too long.
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