Monday, August 18, 2008
District to recognize multilingual students
To highlight the importance of language skills in a competitive work force, a new Ventura Unified School District program will recognize high school students who have mastered two or more languages.Mantooth selected as superintendent
After a monthlong search and two days of interviews, the Ventura County Board of Education chose a county schools superintendent Saturday, naming a local administrator to the top spot. Without discussing any other candidate, the board appointed Stan Mantooth, associate superintendent of administrative services in the Ventura County Office of Education and its chief financial and business officer.Amato takes aim at high school reforms
Superintendent Anthony Amato is embarking upon a yearlong planning process that ultimately will reform Stockton Unified's four comprehensive high schools.Parents (and a few kids) are ready to get back to school
Parents are telling, perhaps a bit guiltily, anyone who will listen that they're quite ready for their bored and bickering kids to get out of their hair. And they're looking for any advice on how to spend the last week of summer vacation away from the lure of Nickelodeon and the Wii.New preschool program to start next month
A new preschool program coming to some Vista schools could help prepare students from low-income families for kindergarten, school officials said.Back to school: Shaky economy hits kids
Hard times and higher fuel prices will follow kids back to school this fall. Children will walk farther to the bus stop, pay more for lunch, study from old textbooks and wear last year's clothes. Field trips? Forget about it.Schools look at ways to pay for retirement benefits
For decades, public schools have guaranteed their employees health insurance after they retire, a rich benefit that is rare in the private sector. Now, after an accounting change forced districts to disclose the true costs of such guarantees, school officials are scrambling to come up with millions for future insurance bills.Area schools to begin year with new leadership
Newly enrolled students won't be the only new faces at area campuses this upcoming school year. Many school principals have either retired or moved on from their posts, paving the way for new administrators to make their debuts when classrooms open at the end of the month.Districts tackle enrollment drop
Like other area districts, Long Beach USD expects to see continued declining enrollment in early grades, further worsening its budget situation.School boards are prodded to take a stance in gay marriage debate
When it comes to political views, Jim Gibson of Vista and Mike Katz-Lacabe of San Leandro are at opposite ends of the spectrum. But the two men have a bond: Both are school board members in small California districts who have proposed that their boards wade into the debate on Proposition 8, the initiative that would amend the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage in California.
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