August 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
This year's payout of a three-year $416 million federal grant to struggling schools has been delayed for several California schools after monitoring teams found the state Department of Education and local districts not implementing required reforms. At a tense meeting last month, unhappy...
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February 14, 2011, 12:05 AM
The state Board of Education ordered new rules last week to clarify how charter schools are granted statewide operating privileges. The action comes in the wake of a July 2010 Court of Appeals ruling that found the board improperly awarded statewide status to Aspire Public Schools, a charter school...
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February 9, 2011, 12:05 AM
The State Board of Education will hold a public hearing today to discuss what has become a thorny question: Under what circumstances should a charter school company be allowed to bypass local district control and operate statewide? The board has granted statewide status to three charter school...
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September 1, 2010, 12:05 AM
Meg Whitman has finally given a specific example of jobs she would go after should she become governor: 150 jobs in the California Department of Education. "The Legislative Analyst's Office found that the Department of Education has 150 staffers working on programs it no longer...
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