Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Pensis retiring after 30 years with school district
The superintendent of the Coachella Valley Unified School District on Tuesday announced his retirement after weathering five years of poor test scores and failing to meet federal standards.How to survive $2.9 million deficit?
More than 10 teacher positions may have to be cut in Lodi Unified School District due to lagging student enrollment.School board rejects resolution on same-sex marriage
In a split vote, the school board rejected the resolution. The first part of the resolution states: "the People of California affirm that it is in a child’s best interest to be raised by a father and mother in the bond of marriage."School administrators police clothing on campuses
Red shoelaces. A Nike swoosh. A knit beanie.While in most settings they're innocuous accessories, on some school campuses they're fashions that administrators battle to help keep gangs at bay.Year-round schools history for many kids
Nearly 700,000 students head back to Los Angeles Unified classrooms today, and tens of thousands of them will no longer suffer through chaotic, year-round schedules thanks to the district's massive ongoing construction program.First lesson is to try hard, quadriplegic teacher tells kindergartners
Darin Peets, 47, is a new kindergarten teacher at Del Dayo Elementary school. He's also a quadriplegic. He uses lessons learned during his three decades of limited physical mobility to teach his young charges to try hard. And then ask for help.Mayor Villaraigosa has high hopes for his schools
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vowed to double the rate of academic improvement at schools under his stewardship in benchmarks announced Tuesday.Column: All 3 budgets would create future deficits
Arnold Schwarzenegger has been hammering at legislators not only for their record-long stalemate on a state budget, but for entertaining quick fixes that would merely, as he puts it, "kick the can down the road" without solving the state's chronic fiscal ills. It's a noble sentiment, certainly, but none of the budget versions floating around the Capitol, including Schwarzenegger's, would do it.
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