Archive for April 2012
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April 30, 2012
LAO says state’s fiscal safety net for schools still intact
After relaxing some of the fiscal oversight of schools during the state's fiscal crisis, lawmakers were warned Monday to avoid making any further changes that could hamper identification of school districts headed for trouble.
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April 30, 2012
Common core deadlines loom, Brown may reduce state role in teacher training
The first of four professional development programs intended to help teachers bring the common core standards into California classrooms is set for release in July, state officials said Monday.
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April 30, 2012
Feds announce $63m in new round of SIG funding
A new cohort of California's lowest performing schools will benefit from $63 million in School Improvement Grants, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced Monday.
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April 27, 2012
Stakes are high for May Revise; budget workshops provide answers
A statewide sense of uncertainty surrounds the coming revised May budget Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to release in the middle of next month. And the pressure on school administrators to get this one right could not be greater.
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April 27, 2012
Anti-distracted driving campaigns targets students
A nine-year-old boy fidgets on the front seat as dad drives them to baseball practice. He absentmindedly messes with his cap and slaps a baseball in his mitt.
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April 27, 2012
Noted biliteracy expert takes over CDE’s new English learner division
Despite decades struggling to educate the nation's largest population of non-native speaking students, the California Department of Education has only within the last few months benefitted from a new division dedicated to the needs of English learners.
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April 26, 2012
CA home to nation’s most run-down public schools serving military families
Seven of the nation's 24 most dilapidated public schools serving military families are located in California, according to disclosures made this week by state officials.
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April 26, 2012
British inspectors go beyond spreadsheets” to score school success ”
In the United Kingdom, inspectors have been visiting and evaluating schools for about 150 years, and the British government has required standardized inspections of all schools since 1992.
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April 25, 2012
Poll finds support for Brown’s tax plan and his ed spending revisions
A majority of likely voters say they support the governor's tax measure headed for the fall ballot, but most also said they favor two major proposals in his budget - giving local school officials more say over spending and restructuring state school funding to favor disadvantaged students.
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April 25, 2012
New funding source opens up for career technical education facility construction
Schools looking to update or build new career technical education facilities now have access to new sources of funding, opened this week by state officials.
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