Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Covina teachers stage protest over contract dispute
A crowd of about 600 people, including teachers and students, marched to a Covina-Valley Unified School Board meeting Monday to protest working without a contract for more than a year.Livermore charter school drops plans for new facility
Citing the slumping economy, the Livermore Valley Charter School has dropped plans to build a new kindergarten through 12th-grade campus near Robertson Park.Parents outraged employee bonuses funded with special ed dollar
Parents of special education children in Scotts Valley say they are outraged that the school district would use special education savings to help fund a bonus for employees.O.C. teacher to do “CT-scan” of active volcano
John Wood is in for some thrills and chills, but hopefully no spills. Wood, who teaches sixth grade at Talbert Middle School in Huntington Beach, leaves Nov. 21st for the Antarctic, where he’ll help do a “cat-scan” of a massive active volcano at the bottom of the world.Give to schools with just a click
A handful of teacher supply registries are trying to link would-be donors with classes in need of supplies.Student leaders have advice for California officials
A worsening state financial crisis. Public education bracing for further budget cuts. A historic presidential election coming to a conclusion. What better time for a statewide contingent of high school students, committed to change, to gather in Sacramento.Economy behind surge in substitute teachers, some say
Sacramento area school districts are reporting an increase in the number of people applying to substitute teach. Substitutes can take home between $100 and $200 a day – nice work if you can get it during tough economic times.LAUSD OKs Armenian liaison
Los Angeles Unified School District officials voted to appoint the district's first-ever official liaison to the Armenian community after 16 community representatives, including an Armenian speaker, were laid off over the summer.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. Teachers will now appeal the district's decision to the state Department of Education in hopes of finding a resolution to what they say are unhealthy and unsafe working conditions.Autism shown higher in children living in rainy areas
Children in California, Oregon and Washington are more likely to develop autism if they lived in counties with higher levels of annual rainfall when they were 3 or younger, suggesting that something about wet weather may trigger the disorder, according to a study released Monday.
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