Monday, April 13, 2009
Schools look for new ways to raise funds during economic downturn
Parent groups supporting local schools have faced a growing challenge this year as they try to provide resources for campuses stretched thin by state funding cuts.After hot debate, Sacramento board set to decide school closures
The Sacramento City Unified School District board is scheduled to decide this week on whether to close four elementary schools and a high school to help close a budget gap. The fate of Genesis High School, and Thomas Jefferson, Alice Birney, Mark Hopkins and Lisbon elementary schools hangs in the balance.Charter school may face hurdles with Lodi Unified petition
In the next few weeks, the charter petition will undergo full review, Lodi Superintendent Cathy Nichols-Washer said, but some board members are already wary of endorsing a school that could take students and daily attendance dollars away from Lodi Unified.Stockton Unified's first full-service schools set to open
Vastly scaled down both from the original proposal and from what they someday might develop into, Stockton Unified's first full-service community schools are scheduled to open this week at Edison High and King Elementary.San Jose's Oak Grove School District names superintendent
The Oak Grove School District has named a homegrown administrator, Tony Garcia, to become its next superintendent.Cupertino Union, Moreland school districts seek taxes to boost budgets
Hoping local voters will come to their rescue, two South Bay school districts are seeking to pass parcel taxes to relieve their stricken budgets.Layoffs raise concerns at Sherman Indian High School
Students who come to Sherman Indian High School get a mix of academic classes and instruction in native languages and traditions that many couldn't get in their schools at home on reservations or in cities. But the strength of that education could be in jeopardy, with the layoffs of 34 teachers, dorm staffers and other employees this school year because of a funding shortfall.Layoffs would trim Manteca schools budget
Nearly one in four teachers, counselors and psychologists could be laid off for the 2009-10 school year as Manteca Unified School District officials try to close a growing budget gap.LAUSD head Cortines marks first 100 days
Today Ramon Cortines marks his 100th day on the job as permanent superintendent - saddled with a $718 million budget deficit and mired in tense union talks over plans to lay off some 8,500 workers.Local stuntman wants to film kid's action flick to benefit Mt. Diablo schools
Movie stuntman Jeff Mosley may pull off his biggest feat ever if he can persuade enough people to follow his dream. A father with two children in the Mt. Diablo school district, Mosley wants to combine a children's action film with generating money to help save music, sports and other programs recently cut because of the state budget deficit.Giving lessons in traffic safety at middle schools
The number of serious traffic incidents involving schoolchildren across the 900 Los Angeles public schools has significantly increased, particularly around middle schools, which are not staffed by crossing guards, school administrators and law enforcement officials say. The traffic dangers have become so widespread that the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office will soon begin training parents for volunteer traffic control and safety dutyGovernor seeking $5 billion for schools
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked the federal government for $5 billion to keep California schools from laying off teachers, preserve programs and help students enter college.Dropouts could cost Fresno $555 million
School dropouts two years ago could cost Fresno nearly $555 million in economic losses over their lifetimes -- from higher unemployment to crime, according to a report released Thursday.More than a quarter of 7th graders drop out
More than a quarter of California youngsters attending seventh grade classes in 2001-02 failed to graduate from high school in 2007, and in one major community dropouts outnumbered graduates, according to a new statistical study by the California Dropout Research Project, based at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Eli Broad dangles a carrot in front of L.A. Unified
Los Angeles philanthropist Eli Broad will help pay for a New York-based arts program that benefits poor and minority students -- and he said Friday that he and other donors would provide similar funding here if the Los Angeles school district can better manage its own arts programs, especially the new downtown arts high school.Sacramento-area schools to soon see stimulus aid
Sacramento-area schools could see the first wave of federal stimulus money from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act within the month.
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