Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Superintendent signs contract extension
The contract of Menifee Union School District Superintendent Linda Callaway has been extended. The school board voted unanimously Tuesday on the extension. Her annual salary is now $173,813, which reflects a 4 percent raise that was provided for in her original contract.School district hires business chief
Robert Wolfe has been named assistant superintendent of business services for the Menifee Union School District.School district to cut deep into reserves
The Menifee school district is looking at using almost $5 million in reserve funds to help balance its budget for the next three years.Schools could see bigger cuts
Schools in the Oceanside Unified School District could end up bringing in $9 million less than they expected this year and next if the state goes forward with cuts the governor proposed recently, school officials said Tuesday.Heatley hired by Georgia school district
Chino Valley Unified Superintendent Edmond Heatley on Tuesday night was hired as the top administrator for the Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia.School bus driver narrowly averts serious crash
A potentially serious accident was averted east of Bridgeville Sunday when the driver of a bus loaded with high school students managed to pull the vehicle over on a steep hill after its brakes failed.Grand jury: Investigate Natomas school site purchase
A Natomas Unified School District purchase of 41 acres of farmland for six times its value in 2007 should be investigated by the local, state and federal authorities, according to a Sacramento County grand jury report released Tuesday.Trustees address widening deficit
The projected deficit in the San Diego school district's budget has soared past $180 million, prompting a fresh look at several cost-cutting measures, including shuttering seven elementary schools and eliminating a popular Balboa Park program.School board OKs Prop. S labor pact
Local union workers would get the bulk of jobs to come from the $2.1 billion Proposition S bond measure that will renovate campuses throughout the San Diego Unified School District, under a labor agreement the Board of Education approved last night.Trustees quiet on budget cut
Bakersfield City School District trustees spoke at length about achievement, assemblies and retirement ceremonies marking the end of the school year at Tuesday's board meeting. Superintendent Michael D. Lingo had less to say about an impending $30 million budget cut -- up $13 million since February -- the district could face in the 2009-10 school year.Trustees to look at school officials
Modesto City Schools trustees will meet in a special, closed-door session this afternoon to discuss Superintendent Arturo Flores' annual evaluation and the contracts of Deputy Superintendents Debbe Bailey and Chris Flesuras.Latest budget proposal eliminates CalWORKs, lets out inmates early
In California's latest doom-and-gloom announcement, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Department of Finance on Tuesday proposed closing the state's main welfare program, releasing nonviolent prisoners one year early and shuttering up to 80 percent of state parks to shrink the state's $24.3 billion budget deficit.Schwarzenegger sends lawmakers $5 billion in proposed cuts
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday sent lawmakers his plan to trim more than $5 billion in spending by dismantling or drastically curtailing state programs that provide Californians with healthcare, higher education, welfare, parks, AIDS treatment and counseling, prisoner rehabilitation and other services.
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