Another Fresno charter school faces closure

A second Fresno charter school may have to close its doors, leaving more than 100 students without a school next month.

Disabled student's family alleges discrimination

An Eastlake High School teacher discriminated against a student by excluding her from a dance performance because of her neurological disorder, the student's family alleges in a lawsuit.

Martinez school bailout stalls

t was supposed to be a done deal.At the last minute Wednesday night, however, three City Council members balked and decided the repayment plan before them did not contain enough specifics about how the school district would make good on a $500,000 loan from the city.

The dad who holds schools to the rules

If parents at the poorer schools in San Diego Unified did have a union, David Page might be their leader, with all the fans and foes that entails. Seventeen years after the father of six first walked into a parents' meeting at Ross Elementary in Kearny Mesa, unsure of his rights and unfamiliar with the jargon, Page has become a human encyclopedia on the rules that govern funds for disadvantaged kids and a dogged fighter for parents in communities sometimes left out of decisions.

High school district extends superintendent's contract

The Perris High school district voted Wednesday to extend the contract of Superintendent Jonathan Greenberg for one more year. His contract will now expire June 30, 2013.

Proposition 98, which guards funding for state's schools, is tested again

For years it has been this government town's equivalent of a stone fortress, a bastion of public policy under the watchful eye of a potent political army .But this summer, Proposition 98, the law that guarantees public schools roughly 40% of general fund revenue, is being tested as it has been only a few times before.

California school funding spat has no easy compromise

The last-minute hurdle that has stymied negotiations over the state budget involves such a narrow matter — when and how to repay schools for billions of dollars in cuts — that it would seem simple enough for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders to craft a way around it.

School funding stalls Calif. budget negotiations

State Treasurer Bill Lockyer warned that California's budget impasse is threatening the state's ability to build schools, highways and levees.

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