Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Lodi Unified trims teaching spots, budgets
The Lodi Unified School District Board of Trustees approved the elimination of 18 unfilled teaching positions and a 2.5 percent decrease in administrators' budgets on Tuesday night.Drug-sniffing dog plan for SLO Coastal snuffed
Rather than institute searches by drug-sniffing dogs or random drug testing of athletes and others, San Luis Coastal school board members decided to set a special study session on drug use in the community and local schools.VISTA: Trade Tech opens with fewer students than expected
Despite disappointing enrollment numbers, officials with North County Trade Tech High School say the charter school's first year has gotten off to a great start.FALLBROOK: Elementary school district facing sanctions
The largest school district in the greater Fallbrook area faces government sanctions after several of its nine schools failed to meet a benchmark on standardized tests earlier this year, officials said Tuesday. Among other problems, the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District failed to get at least 95 percent of its disabled students to take the standardized exams for two years in a row.Long Beach USD closes MATTIE Academy
The Long Beach Board of Education on Tuesday voted to close MATTIE Academy, a year-old charter school that district officials allege was mismanaged.Rocketship petitions Santa Clara County for second charter school
Navigating public school bureaucracy with blazing speed, Rocketship Mateo Sheedy charter school in San Jose blasted off last year and now is cruising in an educational stratosphere.K-8 trumps middle school for West Sacramento district
The middle school years have long puzzled educators. Do sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders need classrooms warm and cozy? Or are they beyond that, in need of independence and more grown-up quarters? The Washington Unified School District in Yolo County has taken a close look at its middle school students and decided they need both.Column: Budget veto will send a strong message
When he vetoes the new state budget approved by the Legislature in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will reclaim the high ground on the issue that propelled him into the Governor's Office five years ago but has bedeviled him ever since: the state's badly broken finances.Column: Schwarzenegger finally finds some backbone
Arnold Schwarzenegger has talked a good game about ending "crazy deficit spending" for five years, but he's been curiously unwilling to confront the Legislature over the state's hopelessly tangled budget.Governor to veto state budget
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised Tuesday he will veto a state budget that state lawmakers had approved hours earlier, saying the plan is flawed and would create an even worse fiscal crisis for California next year.
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