Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Stockton USD trustee avoids censure
Beneath the words "United For Student Success" painted on the wall of the Stockton Unified School District boardroom, trustees battled Tuesday night during a 150-minute special meeting over a borrowed refrigerator and whether a closed-session discussion was improperly disclosed to the media by Trustee Bill Ross.Educators to press on with plans for algebra
Despite a lawsuit that seeks to nullify the state's decision to require all eighth-graders to take Algebra I, educators say they will continue preparing students for that goal.Board delays MATTIE vote
The five-member Long Beach Board of Education on Tuesday postponed for a week its vote on whether to close a controversial charter school, MATTIE Academy, that district officials allege has been mismanaged.Dublin High School lockers stuffed with dead animals
Dublin High School officials say someone has been hiding dead animals in school lockers. A dead cat was found in an empty locker at the school Tuesday, the third incident involving a dead animal in a locker since the semester began.District mistaken in barring banners
A federal judge has ruled that school officials shouldn't have made a Rancho Peñasquitos math teacher take down classroom banners proclaiming “In God We Trust,” “God Bless America” and other sayings.High school exit exam numbers hurt by special ed inclusion
The passing rates for the state's high school exit exam slipped for this year's graduating class mainly because special education scores were counted for the first time, according to state results released today.High school has new prescription for teaching Spanish
Roxanna Rodriguez knows firsthand that it's important when a doctor can say "¿Dónde tiene usted dolor?" (Where does it hurt?) to a patient who only speaks Spanish. The 17-year-old Washington Union High School senior, one of 14 students taking a medical Spanish class at the campus south of Fresno, has had to translate on occasion for her parents during their visits to doctors -- even when she was a child.Half of S.F. kindergartners not ready for school
Researchers who evaluated 447 of last year's kindergartners across the district found that while half lack at least some needed skills, 11 percent were deficient both academically and socially. They were the most at-risk for failure now and in the future, according to results released Tuesday.90.2% in class of '08 pass exit tests
Nine out of 10 high school seniors passed the California High School Exit Exam by the time their class graduated this past spring, according to data released Tuesday by the stateMore seniors failing high school Exit Exam
Far more California high school students failed the state Exit Exam and did not graduate this year than last year, a decline that state educators blamed largely on the fact that test results of disabled students were counted for the first time.
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