Friday, August 28, 2009
Oxnard school district discusses priority for projects
The Oxnard Union High School District board met this week to discuss future projects, including campus improvements and plans for a new high school in Oxnard.Cayucos Elementary School shows off expansion
Administrators at Cayucos Elementary School on Wednesday unveiled the latest phase of the school’s multiyear expansion. The third phase includes the completion of a kindergarten building, a multipurpose building, library and one additional classroom building.Testing improvements attributed to teachers, increase of data
As standardized test scores continue to rise locally and across the state, educators are crediting the improvements to hard work and an increased focus on using student achievement data to determine how best to teach.Education roundup: Race to the top hearing, SAT scores, new BC faculty and more
More than $4.3 billion in education funding is being offered by the Obama administration for states to improve low performing schools and overhaul performance accountability systems for teachers and students.More applying for free, reduced-price school meals
Over the past three years Fruitvale School District has experienced a 50 percent rise in applications for free and-reduced price meals. This year a third of its 3,217 students meet the income-eligibility requirements that let them receive low-cost breakfast and lunch.Visalia schools report 14 swine flu cases
Visalia Unified has had 14 cases of swine flu since school resumed Aug. 14, including three cases at La Joya Middle School as well as cases at elementary and high schools, a school district official reported Thursday.Retiring Natomas superintendent had faced teacher no-confidence vote
The Natomas Teachers Association had been planning to take a no-confidence vote next Thursday to express displeasure with district Superintendent Steve Farrar. Teachers won't get the chance. Farrar, 60, announced his retirement after a closed session Wednesday night.Are big pay cuts for school administrators a smart move?
Of all the Orange County educators who still have jobs in this year of deep spending cuts, Capistrano Unified's administrators have been hit the hardest financially.Schwarzenegger gives case for reform at charter school
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visited a charter school in Chula Vista yesterday to call for lifting a prohibition against using student test scores to evaluate teachers, a ban he says disqualifies the state from claiming its share of a special $4.35 billion federal education fund.Ex-LAUSD administrator pleads out in molestation case
A former Los Angeles school administrator pleaded no contest today to felony unlawful sex and lewd act counts involving four teenage girls from two schools where he worked.Legislature discusses removing 'firewall' between student data and teacher evaluations
To make California schools eligible for more federal stimulus funds, the state Legislature took up bills Thursday to change the state law governing the use of student data.Californians lose $1 billion from unconstitutional bond sales
Throughout California, the largest and most fiscally troubled state in the U.S., about 200 school districts have done financing deals that have been condemned by Attorney General and former Governor Jerry Brown as unconstitutional.
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