Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Effort to integrate special-needs students
The new small learning communities that open today at Stockton Unified's four comprehensive high schools will benefit special-needs students as well as general education students, the district's director of special education said this week.Franklin IB chief's reassignment shocks parents
The teacher who was to have supervised Franklin High School's expanded International Baccalaureate program said she was assigned this week to a new job, two days before this morning's start of the 2009-10 school year.University, school district partner up
The Lake Elsinore Unified School District and a private university have agreed to become partners, a step forward in creating a center for higher education that would serve the region.Deputy Superintendent to join Heatley in Georgia
Stephanie Phillips, Deputy Superintendent of the Chino Valley Unified School District, will be joining her former boss in Georgia in a similar role to her service with him in Chino, officials said.Expert: Schools ready to swallow $6 billion cut
California's public schools should be able to weather an anticipated $6 billion budget cut in the coming year as long as they don't rescind any layoffs or restore any slashed programs and services, a leading educational consulting firm said.East Side Superintendent Bob Nuñez placed on paid leave
Trustees from the East Side Union School District placed Superintendent Bob Nuñez on paid administrative leave Tuesday amid growing criticism of his business expenses even as the district struggles to maintain school sports.Menifee board to discuss shift of Paloma Valley High to Menifee district
The Menifee Union School District board will hold a special study session at 3:30 p.m. Aug. 10 to discuss the district's petition to shift control of Perris Union High School District's Paloma Valley High School to the Menifee district.Martinez council gives final OK to $500,000 school loan
Loren Glover is relieved. The second-grade teacher was laid off earlier this year, but she'll be back in her classroom at Morello Park Elementary next month now that the city has approved a $500,000 loan to the school district.Brentwood school that nearly closed begins a new year
Last spring, the Knightsen School District campus was scheduled to be shut down for the 2009-10 school year because of budget cuts unless parents and teachers could raise $50,000 toward an eventual goal of $75,000. The parents and teachers met the initial goal, and now have to raise another $25,000 by January.California schools chief reacts to U.S. criticism on teacher evaluation
California's top education official sought Tuesday to counter federal criticism of the state's reluctance to use student test scores to evaluate teachers, paying a visit to Long Beach to highlight one of the few California school districts to make extensive use of such data.State could be in for an encore unless everything goes right
Sure, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a budget revision Tuesday intended to resolve the state's $24 billion deficit and get the state past June 2010. But the plan has plenty of land mines that could rupture the budget balance and force lawmakers to return to the negotiating table in a matter of months.Schwarzenegger signs budget bills, cuts $489 million more
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a 27-bill budget-balancing package Tuesday, but only after making another $489 million in spending cuts and likening the experience to "the good, the bad and the ugly."California state budget deficit still looms for next year
Even the most cockeyed optimist in the Capitol, if there is such a thing, would not contend that the much-revised state budget that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Tuesday is the final fiscal word.
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