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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Stockton USD debuts learning communities

At Edison and the school district's three other comprehensive high schools, the curtain was raised on the district's long-discussed small learning communities - career-based programs intended to make the classroom more relevant to students and to better prepare them for college and the working world.

To guide a budget through, a little improvisation is key

This is the story of how the teachers’ unions overpowered Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Murrieta, and how that led to the eventual decision to spare more than $1 billion in local government cuts.

School's debut a boost for Gleason Park area

The Spanos campus has been part of years of plans to rehabilitate the neighborhood, where a national television crew once came to document the cocaine epidemic. So battered by drug dealing and prostitution did the park become that the city abandoned it in 1994.

Growing criticism led to East Side schools chief being put on leave

With the school year scheduled to start in a month, East Side Union High School District trustees are now searching for an acting superintendent after Bob Nuñez was abruptly placed on leave late Tuesday night after a critical county report and threats of more financial scrutiny to come.

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