MORE ON: school construction

Daily Report: K–12

Report: California school facilities need funding, roadmap

July 31, 2012, 12:05 AM
More than 6.2 million students attend K-12 public schools in California, but the conditions of the classrooms they sit in, playgrounds they run on and cafeterias they eat in are largely unknown. Unlike 22 other states in the country, California does not have a statewide inventory of its public... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

School bond measures receive donations from contractors

June 4, 2012, 12:05 AM
As voters around the state decide on more than two dozen local school bond measures tomorrow, the campaigns promoting many of them are funded largely by businesses that stand to benefit financially. On local ballots from San Diego to Sonoma County, 28 school bond measures would ... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Critics struggle to end 'pay to play' in school bonds

May 14, 2012, 12:05 AM
Critics of the practice in which financial firms help pass school bonds that they profit from are continuing to push for reforms, but so far have faced resistance and failure. In California, underwriting companies hired by school districts to sell bonds often make campaign contributions to... + read more
Spotlight: Money and Politics

With campaign donations, bond underwriters also secure contracts

May 3, 2012, 12:05 AM
Leading financial firms over the past five years have donated $1.8 million to successful school bond measures in California. In almost every instance, school district officials hired those same underwriters to sell the bonds for a profit. + read more
Daily Report: K–12

School construction safety bill advances

March 29, 2012, 12:05 AM
Legislation aimed at overhauling the state's school construction law sailed through the Senate Education Committee yesterday.  Senate Majority Leader Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, introduced the bill, SB 1271, following a California Watch investigation and... + read more
Daily Report: K–12

Ex-construction execs plead no contest in school funds fraud case

March 22, 2012, 12:05 AM
Three former executives of TurnKey Schools of America, a construction firm that manufactured and installed prefabricated school buildings across the state, have pleaded no contest to charges of siphoning millions in construction funds from a Santa Barbara County school district. Four years ago... + read more
Daily Report: K–12

San Jose school district misled state to get $8M in funds, officials say

October 5, 2011, 12:05 AM
A San Jose-area school district provided false information to obtain more than $8 million in state funds for school construction projects, state officials have determined. Last week, the State Allocation Board sanctioned the Oak Grove School District after concluding that district officials... + read more
Daily Report: K–12

Report calls for new leader of state's school construction system

September 29, 2011, 12:05 AM
A study released this week calls for a total revamping of how California schools are built and asks the state superintendent of public instruction to take over the school construction system. Tucked inside the 90-page report, called "Schools of the Future," is a proposal that... + read more
Daily Report: K–12

Senators want audit of school construction oversight failures

May 10, 2011, 12:05 AM
Key members of the state Senate have asked for an audit of the office that oversees public school construction in response to a recent California Watch investigation that found systemic failures in the way earthquake safety laws are enforced.  Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg;... + read more
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