Thursday, August 13, 2009
Vallejo trustees give walking papers to Bull
The Vallejo school board fired its superintendent Monday night but will continue to pay her salary and benefits through June 2010 at an estimated cost of $165,000.New home for school spruced up
Parents, teachers and staff at a bilingual charter school spent Saturday scrubbing and scraping to clean up the school's new home at the former Cuyamaca Elementary School.Tracy Unified opens third comprehensive high school
The staff at John C. Kimball High welcomed an estimated 950 freshman and sophomores to campus Wednesday on the school's opening day. Kimball is the district's third comprehensive high school, the first to open since Merrill F. West in 1993.Put Amato on leave, union asks
Union leaders have called on Stockton Unified School District trustees to place Superintendent Anthony Amato on administrative leave over his involvement with an organization that links textbook and curriculum publishers with school administrators.Disputed lot in South L.A. is seized by school district
With no youth center or permanent soccer field having been built, the Los Angeles Unified School District has seized control of the blighted six-acre site, with plans for an elementary school and soccer field.LAUSD steadily reducing year-round schools
For nearly three decades, Camellia Avenue Elementary has buzzed with children 12 months a year, operating on a multi-track schedule to cycle more students through the overcrowded campus. But this summer, the chatter of children has been replaced by an unfamiliar quiet.Wife of Oakland schools chief resigns from nonprofit after conflict-of-interest review
In response to a conflict-of-interest ruling by the Oakland school district's general counsel, the wife of Superintendent Tony Smith will leave her post at a local education nonprofit.Antioch district to decide on interim schools chief
With a new school year beginning in less than two weeks, the Antioch school district board must decide who it will hire as an interim superintendent for the 2009-10 school year. Indications are it will tap the acting superintendent, Donald Gill, for the role.State OKs first digital textbooks
State education officials on Tuesday named the first 10 digital textbooks that meet California academic standards for high school math and science.Expanding the charter option
The U.S. Education Department is engaged in a high-pressure campaign to get states to lift limits on charter schools through a $4 billion education fund, Race to the Top, that encourages more charters as one of the criteria for states to qualify for a piece of the pie. A total of 40 states and the District of Columbia permit charter schools.Board endorses idea of corporate sponsors
Saddled with more than $8 million in cuts and expecting approximately $5.6 million more next year, the Santa Rosa School Board on Wednesday night gave early backing to a plan that would open school buildings, fields and programs to corporate and community sponsorship and naming rights.
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