High school district to cut JV sports

Kern High School District trustees gave the go ahead Thursday to cut junior varsity sports as part of $3.7 million in additional budget reductions next year.

Long-delayed proposal would get $20 million

On Tuesday, the five-member San Diego school board will take up a controversial plan to spend $20 million of district money to help build a long-delayed downtown library.

Vista school trustees use federal money to save jobs

About 200 employees in the Vista Unified School District who faced being laid off were given a reprieve Thursday night after administrators were able to cobble together federal stimulus money and other dollars to balance the 2009-10 budget.

Stimulus money spares Vista schools from cuts

Vista school employees were given a reprieve from drastic cuts last night after administrators were able to cobble together federal stimulus money and other funds to balance the 2009-10 budget.

San Jose Unified approves raising class sizes in grades K-2

With an air of distaste over a controversial decision that would affect its youngest students, San Jose Unified School trustees Thursday night reluctantly agreed to boost class sizes from 20 students to 30 in the early grades — a move that would cut 96 full-time teaching positions and save $6 million.

LAUSD working with $1.1 billion (that's with a 'b') deficit

The Los Angeles Unified School District unveiled a financial blueprint for the next three years Thursday that projected a $1.1 billion deficit through 2012, likely causing more class size increases, program cuts and steep reductions to services.

Parents upset over changes to gold rush program

The Lafayette School District has altered its fourth-grade gold rush curriculum, but some parents are panning the changes.

Court: School district can bar political endorsements from teacher mailboxes

School districts can bar election endorsement literature from internal school mailboxes, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a San Leandro case.

Closure of summer school, kids camps leaves parents scouting for alternatives

Now that the Natomas Unified School District has canceled remedial summer classes for elementary and middle school students, Brandy Boyd and her husband are considering whether to spend $190 a month on private math tutoring for their daughter, who will be a third-grader at Heron School in North Natomas.

Cuts cost L.A. Unified its Teach for America instructors for next year

The financially strapped Los Angeles Unified School District says it cannot afford to hire any new teachers next year from Teach for America, a prestigious program that places high-achieving college graduates in low-income, underperforming schools

More high-tech cheating - and rationalizing

Cheating has gone high-tech, with more than a third of the nation's teenagers saying they use cell phones to boost test scores or grades, and at least half admitting using the Internet to cheat, according to a national survey released this week.

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