Monday, September 22, 2008
Stockton USD expands reading program
Six weeks ago, the Stockton Unified School District Board of Trustees approved spending $6 million to bring "Success For All" to every K-8 school in the district. Fillmore Elementary, though, has been using the program since 2001, and administrators and staff at the school say it has made a big difference for the K-8 school's students.Montebello school district suit accuses administrator of moonlighting
Montebello Unified School District is suing one of its administrators, accusing him of fraud for working simultaneously at San Bernardino City Unified, according to court documents.Special ed parents criticize Acalanes
Few can argue with the academic track record at the Acalanes Union High School District. But as the district preaches excellence, one group of Lamorinda parents claims the district denies some of the most vulnerable students a chance to learn alongside the rest, possibly shunning state or federal law in the process.San Juan high school 'waste' of public funds, complaint says
Three longtime critics of the Capistrano Unified School District have accused district officials of wasting up to $10 million of taxpayers' money to build a new high school in violation of state laws.Trustees are in for big lesson in change
The board that cut $6 million from the operating budget of South County's middle and high schools could face grim finances again next year, yet it also will oversee up to a billion dollars in construction spending over the next decade.Legislature approves record-late budget
California lawmakers approved on Friday the last pieces of a months-late budget that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would sign early next week.K-12 schools get state-minimum budget
Public schools get about the same money as last year - slightly more than $58 billion. Though last year's $56 billion is technically lower, schools got other money from sources that are no longer tapped.Pitched battle over ROTC in S.F. schools
Kicking the military out of San Francisco high schools has been neither easy nor cheap. The school district is spending almost $1 million to pay for 10 Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps instructors to oversee nearly empty classrooms as the program phases out this year, and for seven extra physical education teachers to take on the students who used to fill those empty seats.'Incomplete' grade for school seismic safety
Six years after the state completed an inventory that lists nearly 8,000 public school buildings prone to collapse during a major earthquake, it's uncertain how many school districts have addressed these seismic concerns or even know their structures are on the list.California's new 8th-grade algebra rule gets some poor marks
The new state policy of requiring algebra in the eighth grade will set up unprepared students for failure while holding back others with solid math skills, a new report has concluded.Budget problems expected again next summer
Even as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs a spending bill this week to end the state's record-long budget impasse, officials say a crisis of equal magnitude looms next year because of the weakened economy, uncertainties about the use of future lottery revenue and political gridlock among state legislators.
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