Monday, November 3, 2008
High schoolers see election up close
Many Americans will be glued to their television or computer screen Tuesday, waiting for election results to roll in. But some Monterey County teens will experience Election Day first-hand while working at the polls.Alta Loma teachers union blasts superintendent's pay, wants raise
Alta Loma School District's teachers union has branded guaranteed pay increases for the new superintendent in her first two years as a "misappropriation of funds."Measure M asks whether to unify Hamilton City school districts
The question of whether Hamilton City's two school districts will reorganize into one will be decided Tuesday with ballot Measure M.San Ramon Valley schools to place parcel tax on mail ballot
The San Ramon Valley school district plans to put a property parcel tax measure on a special mail-in-only ballot election in May.Character education empowers students
A four-year grant has allowed the Vista Unified School District to implement a yearlong character education class at Vista and Rancho Buena Vista high schools.District will crunch data to spot at-risk students
The San Diego Unified School District will put together its most detailed account of student progress this year with help from new data analysis using the so-called “value-added” method.Districts rely on combination classrooms
Most Inland-area school districts rely on combination classes when they have an excess number of students in a grade, but not enough for a full class.Critics of Measure Q cite its high cost
While the Los Angeles Unified School District has built hundreds of new schools in the past decade, it is now seeking an additional $7 billion for older schools that remain in need of repair and remodeling.Bay Area teachers to take classroom temperature fight to state
A Williams Uniform Complaint that teachers filed in September regarding what they described as scorching temperatures in classrooms has been rejected by the school district, officials said.L.A. Unified seeks to build apartments on campuses' surplus land
The Los Angeles Unified School District is looking to develop low-cost apartments on as many as 12 campuses in an effort to help teachers find less expensive housing and live closer to their jobs.Report cites mistakes in L.A. Unified's handling of suspected child molester
A confidential investigation into how a suspected child molester was assigned to a Los Angeles Unified School District middle school has concluded that no current employee was directly to blame, even though several made mistakes.'Miracles' unlikely in session on budget
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week began using words such as “emergency” and “miracle” to describe the state's economic mess and what it might take to get out of it.
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