Monday, August 31, 2009
Valley schools ready swine flu defenses
Schools throughout the Coachella Valley have launched campaigns with tips on staying healthy and keeping the virus at bay.Canine searches for drugs, alcohol coming to Whittier City middle schools
The district has contracted with the San Marino-based Interquest Detection Canines, which will bring specially trained dogs to perform "sniffs" of classrooms and backpacks at Dexter and Edwards middle schools in 2009-10, said Superintendent Ron Carruth.Elementary schools prep for changes in new year
While the district has been tightening its belt overall, elementary schools will be feeling several of the budget’s impact this coming fall.W. Sac. charter school launches first high school class at new campus
West Sacramento Early College Prep launched its school year last week with its first high school class, a new campus and a greater emphasis on student-driven learning.After 36 years in one district, South Bay superintendent retires
Befitting the leader of a 12,600-person Silicon Valley organization, Manny Barbara is described as innovative, charismatic, smart and dedicated 24/7 to his cause. After 10½ years at the helm, Barbara, 60, retired Friday. However, he plans to stay close to schools, taking jobs with two education nonprofits.Oakland's big algebra push
At some Bay Area middle schools, Algebra I is the realm of the mathematically advanced — the kids who grasped percentages and fractions with ease when they were younger or who scored highly on a pre-algebra placement test given in fifth or sixth grade .Not so in Oakland.Santa Rosa schools lose students, and funding
An unexpected enrollment drop in Santa Rosa Schools has officials more urgently considering shortening the academic year by five days and closing campuses.Bigger classes, fewer frills await Coachella Valley students
Students returning to Coachella Valley public schools Monday can expect larger classes, eliminated programs and missing teachers after the three districts cut nearly $21 million from budgets amid the state's budget crunch.Charter schools grow in Valley
Charter schools are gaining momentum in the Valley, despite tiny budgets and some high-profile failures.Schools Choice pushes LAUSD into a new era
Los Angeles Unified may have opened its gates for independent operators to run up to a third of its campuses, but the key players - including the influential teachers union - do not anticipate a bitter power grab to take over public schools.Legislators eye grants for schools
California's top educational and political leaders promised the state will do all it can to qualify for a share of more than $4 billion in competitive federal grants the Obama administration will award to states that establish new frameworks for educational reform.The Battle for Montgomery High
Montgomery High School does not feel like a school in trouble. It is a seemingly ordinary school south of the Otay Valley Park, ringed by modest homes and big box stores. It has Spirit Fridays and butcher paper banners advertising school dances, cheerleaders decked out in red, white and blue. Teachers say their biggest discipline problem is "yakking." And yet Montgomery has become a battleground for Sweetwater Union High School District.
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