Friday, August 15, 2008
Schools to miss initial compliance date
Oxnard School District officials have put off complying with a state order involving districts failing to meet No Child Left Behind Act academic standards.20 staff members retiring will save school district money, but it's losing experience
It’s back to school in two weeks for the teachers and students of Paso Robles’ schools, but a group of 20 veteran teachers and staff with nearly 500 years of total service to the district won’t return this fall.VALLEY CENTER: District to play 'kid-friendly' radio on school buses
School buses on the winding, rural roads of Valley Center will be cruising to a new beat next year. That's because trustees of the 4,400-student Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District decided Thursday night to install digital radios that play kid-friendly, age-appropriate music on the district's 35 buses.Chaffey school district to start program for struggling students
A new program will begin Aug. 25 to help freshmen and sophomores in the Chaffey school district deal with problems that might otherwise cause them to fail early in their high school years.Q&A: Standardized Testing and Reporting program
State schools chief Jack O'Connell said Thursday that California public school students continued to make progress on the Standardized Testing and Reporting program. Here are some basic questions and answers about the STAR program.Steady growth shown on California Standards Test
The state's public school students improved yet again in reading, writing and mathematics, marking five years of near-steady growth on the tough California Standards Test, according to results released Thursday by the Department of Education.Test scores are higher, but more schools at risk
Scores on state standardized tests took a step upward in annual results released Thursday, but that rise won't prevent more schools from failing federal targets that have become more difficult this year.
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