Monday, July 13, 2009
Fight on to retain High School Exit Exam
While some state legislators want to suspend a state law requiring high school students to pass an exit exam before graduating, education officials and others are fighting to keep the test.Eureka teachers try to disprove necessity of district layoffs
The Eureka Teachers Association is trying to prove that the district's application of a rarely used education code to justify the summer layoffs is unnecessary. Of the 36 employees being laid off, six are considered permanent employees.FUSD aims for more yums on school menus
Forget the bland turkey bits with gravy over mashed potatoes and peas. School cafeterias today are trending more toward ethnic variety and foods with spice -- chipotle patty melts, egg-and-chorizo breakfast burritos and Asian noodles.Grand jury blasts San Jose's Luther Burbank school board
With seven years of climbing test scores, wild success in teaching reading and a record of lifting the most struggling students, Luther Burbank School District has been hailed as a model for educating poor and immigrant children. Now the tiny San Jose district is getting noticed for something that could threaten that progress: a grand jury report that blasts Luther Burbank for a crisis of leadership and an intimidating board that may have run afoul of the law.Trustees zero in on resolution of conflict
After releasing details of the friction between Modesto City Schools' top two administrators, trustees soon will consider how to end the conflict.Opinion: L.A. Unified and the price of school money
Before Los Angeles Unified School District officials put a parcel tax on the ballot, they must show they'll change their ways.School districts get IOUs from the state
Local school districts have been given their own IOUs from the state as a result of the ongoing fiscal crisis and cash shortageColumn: Struggling school gets a boost
Through Chaka Khan's education foundation, low-achievers at Drew Middle School in Compton receive help from people who care about their future.Column: This may be apocalyptic fiscal duel
There's something faintly biblical about the Capitol's ever-tenser political confrontation over how to close a whopping budget deficit.Schwarzenegger's call to suspend Prop. 98 jolts Capitol
Not once in the two decades since California's Proposition 98 school-funding formula became law have lawmakers bucked education groups to suspend it – so Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's push to do so has rocked the Capitol.GOP has tough row to hoe in California
California Republicans, known to engage in intraparty warfare, got an unexpected boost from the state's fiscal crunch as party leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger united against Democratic appeals for less-traumatic budget cuts.Calif. lawmakers: Deal elusive despite progress
California's legislative leaders are reporting progress with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on a deal to close the state's $26.3 billion budget shortfall, expressing hope for agreement by the end of the week.Sacramento lawmakers optimistic they're closing in on a budget deal
California's top lawmakers focused Sunday on cost-saving reforms to social welfare programs and how deeply to cut an array of state services as they dove into the complex task of closing the state's $26 billion deficit.
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