Thursday, July 10, 2008
Board urges Congress to provide rural schools funding
Emotions ran high and tempers were on the verge of flaring as Dave Muerer, field representative for Congressman Wally Herger, reported to the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors about the failure of Congress to fund county schools.Students nationwide feel lunchtime pinch
Around the country, school districts have been raising school lunch prices due to increased food, fuel, labor and other costs.Shades of Caddyshack: Chico Unified School District blasting gophers
The Chico Unified School District purchased a "gopher blasting" machine last winter, and has been exterminating the pesky rodents by igniting a propane and oxygen mixture in gopher holes, said maintenance employee Kip Hansen.Eureka district may pick magnet school for enrollment problem
Granite Bay's Eureka Union School District may opt for a magnet school instead of a district-led charter campus, which was proposed by community members to stop declining enrollment.Placer grand jury rips district on new schools
A Placer County grand jury report slams Lincoln's Western Placer Unified School District for numerous errors and misjudgments in the design, funding and construction of new schools.District trustees won't extend tech school's charter
The School of Business & Technology, which made its debut in 2003 as an independent charter school, will not have its charter renewed, Oceanside school district trustees decided Tuesday.Schools measure moving forward
Residents living in the San Diego Unified School District's boundaries are a step closer to voting on a school construction bond on the November ballot.Schools measure moving forward
Residents living in the San Diego Unified School District's boundaries are a step closer to voting on a school construction bond on the November ballot.High school district mulls bond measure
Grossmont Union High School District's governing board will discuss tonight whether to place a $417 million bond measure on the November ballot that would raise property taxes for 25 years to help pay for construction projects.Colton school district begins plans for 4th high school
A comprehensive high school hasn't been built in the Colton Joint Unified School District in 46 years. Now the Board of Education is considering building two schools at once.Hawthorne's Hip Hop High loses its charter
Many students at Hip Hop High were academic failures, most of them, kicked out of school after school, allowed to fail their way from one grade to the next. At their charter school in Hawthorne, they say, they found a home. Now, they fear, a bureaucratic breakdown will cause the school, formally known as the Media Arts Academy Charter School, to close.Algebra 1 to be required for all 8th-graders
All California eighth-graders in public school will have to take Algebra 1 beginning in 2011 under a policy approved Wednesday by the state Board of Education in an 8-1 vote.
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