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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December 14, 2010, 12:05 AM
The number of Californians seeking to become teachers has plummeted by 45 percent over a seven year period – even as student enrollments are projected to rise by 230,000 over the next decade and as many as 100,000 teachers are expected to retire. Teaching is clearly becoming a less and...
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October 7, 2010, 12:25 AM
The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education approved a landmark agreement Tuesday that could spare up to 45 schools in high-poverty areas from teacher layoffs and possibly fuel efforts elsewhere to protect vulnerable students from budget-related personnel cuts. According to the...
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August 18, 2010, 12:05 AM
The publication of a controversial, and groundbreaking, article by the Los Angeles Times raises complex questions about whether to "out" teachers whose students perform poorly on reading and math tests. That is especially true when using "value-added" techniques that are...
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May 6, 2010, 12:06 AM
Teachers at the Oakland Unified School District are signaling a return to the picket lines, nearly one week after conducting a one-day strike. One quarter of the union's 2,800 members approved a proposal this week that authorizes union leadership to call for a walkout of no longer than 10...
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April 28, 2010, 12:03 AM
After a five-day standoff, teachers in Orange County finally put down their pickets Tuesday and returned to the classroom. Teachers and school officials at the Capistrano Unified School District forged an agreement around 11:30 p.m. Monday that would keep a hotly contested 10 percent pay cut...
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April 23, 2010, 12:06 AM
Fed up with what they called "stall tactics," the teachers union at the Capistrano Unified School District has gone on strike. Courtesy of the excellent coverage by the Orange County Register, below are excerpts from day one of the strike – the first in the state this year....
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