Thursday, May 14, 2009
Spreckels school board rescinds layoff notices
The Spreckels Union School District board has rescinded layoff notices for five teachers.Ross Valley School District's closed-door meetings probed by district attorney
The Marin County District Attorney's Office is investigating claims that the Ross Valley School District Board of Trustees violated the state's open meetings law in a series of closed-door discussions on administrative transfers within the district.Upland Unified mails out teacher layoff notices
The school board here will mail out final layoff notices today to 28 teachers. The Upland Unified School District board approved the final list of certificated staff to receive the notices on Tuesday.More than 100 teachers to get layoff notices
More than 100 teachers in the Chico Unified School District will receive layoff notices by the end of the week.Mt. Diablo school district hangs a lot on Tuesday parcel tax vote
As the state budget outlook worsens, Mt. Diablo school district leaders and many parents are hoping voters will approve a parcel tax that the Legislature could not raid.Knightsen district finances improving, but still battling deficit
The Knightsen School District has made significant strides in recent months to combat its budget deficit, but its third interim financial report showed it wasn't out of the water yet.District trustees stick with 73 teacher layoffs despite federal infusion
Zein Stearman says losing her teaching job because of budget cuts doesn't make sense – especially after the federal government is giving her school district $5.4 million to preserve teaching jobs. Stearman, along with 72 other teachers in the Oceanside Unified School District, were issued final layoff notices at a board meeting Tuesday.Lake Elsinore school board set to rescind teacher layoff notices
The Lake Elsinore Unified School Board is expected to rescind more than 200 layoff notices for teachers at its meeting tonight.Val Verde school board approves 120 layoffs
Val Verde Unified School District trustees voted Tuesday to lay off 96 teachers and 24 nonteaching employees.Modesto City Schools administrator defends work
In the two weeks since Modesto City Schools' second-in-command was placed on paid administrative leave, it appears she was suspended because of a personality clash with Superintendent Arturo Flores.LAUSD teachers not striking Friday, will protest against budget cuts
Los Angeles teachers will refrain from a one-day strike Friday, union officials announced today, but are planning to picket before school and engage in civil disobedience and a downtown march after school.Official: St. HOPE settlement ‘a farce’
The inspector general of the federal agency that provided grants and awards of more than $800,000 to Mayor Kevin Johnson's nonprofit St. HOPE Academy has lashed out at the terms of his agency's settlement with St. HOPE as "a farce."Column: Schwarzenegger to lay out ugly options for voters
Gov. Schwarzenegger's not-so-subtle message to voters today will be something like this: Don't pack the Capitol steps protesting thousands of teacher layoffs, ballooning class sizes and a shorter school year if the ballot props fail. Schools will be cut again regardless of the election outcome, but they'll be crushed if the props go down and Sacramento needs to find an additional $6 billion. You're on notice. Don't blame us.If state cuts too deep, it loses stimulus funds
California officials who face a staggering new budget deficit that could reach $21.3 billion are up against an unexpected problem - the potential loss of billions of dollars in federal economic stimulus money if education and health care spending is cut too deeply.
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