Monday, April 27, 2009
High school exit test faces more criticism
New questions are being raised about California's high school exit exam after a recent study -- which examined test results for Fresno Unified and three other large school districts -- found the test disproportionately hurts minority and female students.School gives merit pay an 'A'
Students at Heritage Peak Charter School in North Highlands go to class when they want, leave when they want and chew gum if they want. There is no dress code, no designated lunch period and no physical education class on campus.Yet student test scores and graduation rates have continued to improve at the 4-year-old school, even more so since merit pay for teachers was instituted during the past school year.Closed school is opened up to new uses
Nearly a year after Spring Valley Elementary School closed, the site has plenty of life left.Schools struggle with method to reduce teaching staffs
Mario Gonzalez started his 90-mile commute to Borrego Springs High School an hour early last semester to teach an extra section of honors history on his own time. He stays late to coach girls soccer, and led a squad that was winless last year to the league championship this season. None of it saved his job.Make or break time for the East Side Union High School District
When the East Side Union High School District announced in February that the sports program needed to be "self-funded" — or get axed altogether — plans were quickly put in motion to raise the needed $2 million. But now, with only six weeks left of school, many of the fundraising efforts have sputtered, and the future of sports in northern California's largest high school district is in serious jeopardy.Teachers on trial?
For 20 minutes Friday, Sheri Hamblin was on trial for a job she could possibly lose. Far away from her secocnd- and third-grade students, she felt compelled to raise her right hand and explain to an administrative law judge why she shouldn't lose her job in June. The Chino Valley Unified School District teacher joined thousands of others in California this month in these peculiar hearings to determine who should be laid off due to budget cuts.Board to vote on application for federal stimulus money
The Mt. Diablo school district is applying for its share of federal stimulus funds, but officials have no idea how much they could receive or how they could use it.Today's 'home ec' students are cookin' up careers
Don't call them future homemakers of America anymore. These days, students who join the 60-year-old Future Homemakers of America organization are crafting towering wedding cakes, catering state functions, creating intricate fashion designs and learning to run businesses.State schools chief calls for more local control
School districts should have more say in how they raise and use funds for their particular needs, the state's education chief said Friday.
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