August 11, 2011, 12:05 AM
The parents of a 6-year-old Oakland Unified School District student are claiming that poor supervision in a preschool class resulted in their daughter being molested by a classmate. In a lawsuit filed on behalf of the girl in Alameda County Superior Court late last month, a lawyer for the...
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April 8, 2011, 12:05 AM
Reversing a decades-long trend, the percentage of Latino children attending preschool across the U.S. declined between 2005 and 2009, with possible far-reaching consequences for California. That's the conclusion of a report by UC Berkeley researchers, to be released at the...
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September 7, 2010, 12:05 AM
The American Civil Liberties Union is questioning Contra Costa officials over their implementation of a microchip tracking program in their preschool centers. Nicole Ozer, the ACLU's technology and civil liberties director, told California Watch that she asked the county to provide more...
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August 31, 2010, 12:03 AM
On the first day of preschool in Richmond, students received crayons, writing paper and tracking microchips embedded into jersey tops. As reported by KTVU, preschoolers in Contra Costa county have been outfitted with these monitoring devices, which transmits a signal to sensors installed...
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April 13, 2010, 12:03 AM
A statewide database that ranks preschool programs from best to worst is in the works and could be up and running by summer 2011. A 13-member advisory committee has been studying how to build and implement such a system since October. The work was triggered by a 2008 law that ordered state...
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