Friday, August 8, 2008
Shared data: A new system could provide advance warning on school dropouts
When fully implemented, the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System can do much more than tell us the bad news after students drop out. It can help educators identify strategies likely to help children before they fail.Hamilton superintendent resigns from elementary school post
Hamilton Union Elementary School Superintendent and Principal Hector Gonzalez resigned Wednesday night after obtaining approval from three members of the school board at a special meeting. The resignation was effective immediately.Lack of school nurses puts kids at risk
Federal guidelines require one nurse for every 750 students. But California ranks 44th in the nation, with a ratio of 1:2,300. Of the nearly 1,000 school districts statewide, half have no school nurses at all, Spradling said.Neighborhoods focus of supervisors' school plan
A committee of San Francisco supervisors has jumped into the long-running fray over how students are assigned to public schools, pushing a resolution that urges the school district to emphasize neighborhood preference in the assignment process.As families tighten belts, school attire gets cut too
A tumbling housing market and soaring gas and food prices have all forced families to trim their budgets. That means less money for the all-important back-to-school shopping spree.College Board to debut an 8th-grade PSAT exam
The College Board, which owns the SAT, PSAT and other tests, plans to introduce an eighth-grade college assessment exam in 2010, a top College Board official said this week.
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