February 19, 2013, 10:07 AM
LONG BEACH – Jandella Faulkner crouches beside a table of busy third-graders in Jennifer Larsen’s class at Edison Elementary School. The students have pencils in hand, outlines spread around them, and a story about penguins and otters in progress. Faulkner stands to call across the...
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December 7, 2012, 12:05 AM
Under proposals the state's teacher credentialing agency is set to consider today, school districts would need to show on a case-by-case basis that no fully credentialed teachers are available before they resort to less-qualified educators, and under-prepared teachers could serve a maximum...
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October 24, 2012, 12:05 AM
Amy Youngman’s seventh- and eighth-grade humanities students had left for the day. Other than some shouts from the after-school program in the courtyard, all was quiet in her second-floor classroom here. Youngman’s day of teaching at Oakland’s ERES Academy – part of the...
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September 28, 2012, 12:05 AM
The rate was startling: Nearly six in 10 teachers at California's lowest-performing schools were not properly credentialed for the classes they led. It's a rate California has worked to shrink for the past six years. It's also a rate that was wrong. The percentage of teachers...
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June 27, 2012, 12:05 AM
English and Spanish alternate seamlessly in the classrooms at the Mission Education Center in San Francisco. Decorative signs identify objects that in other schools would seem too basic to name: “clock” and “door.” This public elementary school has for 40 years served...
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June 14, 2012, 12:05 AM
An ambitious plan to move San Francisco special education students into mainstream classrooms is getting mixed reviews from teachers and sparking a debate over class size as the school district and teachers union try to reach an agreement on a new labor contract. The shift is part of an effort...
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April 17, 2012, 12:05 AM
The fee to become a credentialed teacher would increase 27 percent under budget recommendations by Gov. Jerry Brown and the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office. The state Commission on Teacher Credentialing faces a $5 million deficit in the upcoming fiscal year. Credential...
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April 5, 2012, 12:05 AM
The New York City Department of Education’s release earlier this year of teacher performance ratings has become the latest focal point in the debate about how to measure teaching abilities and whether that information should be public. Education reform advocates say teachers need to be...
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March 7, 2012, 12:05 AM
The percentage of California educators reaching retirement age is rising rapidly, while the number of newly credentialed teachers has decreased for the seventh year in a row, new reports show. The findings have important implications for school budgets and staffing, as older educators...
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August 19, 2011, 12:05 AM
California's public teacher pension system is considered "high risk” because it’s expected to run out of money in the next 30 years, according to a new state auditor report. The report by State Auditor Elaine Howle adds the California State Teachers' Retirement System...
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August 4, 2011, 12:05 AM
The California Teachers Association and California State Teachers’ Retirement System are opposing a bill that would limit pension “spiking,” the practice of boosting salaries right before retirement to increase pension payouts. SB 27, authored by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo...
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May 13, 2011, 12:05 AM
Thousands of California teachers will receive final layoff notices by a state-imposed deadline of May 15, even though school districts are still in the dark about their financial status in the coming school year. The May 15 deadline follows a March 15 deadline, when school districts were...
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April 12, 2011, 12:05 AM
No kid will be safe slacking off in the back of the classroom if a new type of video camera invented by Teachscape, a San Francisco-based company, makes its way into California classrooms. It's a camera called Teachscape Reflect that takes 360-degree video images of a classroom, and is...
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March 15, 2011, 12:05 AM
March 15 has become an annual ritual marked by pain and distress for thousands of California teachers who will receive pink slips by the end of the day today, or will be waiting to receive them in the mail. The last time most school districts did not have to issue layoff notices was in 2007-08...
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January 24, 2011, 12:05 AM
Just as more teachers are facing performance rankings of their work, dozens of teacher training schools in California will be judged for the first time in a nationwide survey set for publication in U.S. News and World Report. The planned rankings come against a backdrop of...
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