February 21, 2013
More than 32,000 California school employees are teaching classes without specialized training. The problem is greater at low-performing schools, where students are overwhelmingly low-income and Latino.
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January 31, 2013
Hundreds of California school districts have turned to a controversial form of borrowing called capital appreciation bonds, with payments not due for decades and interest costs as high as 23 times the amount borrowed.
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January 23, 2013
Two dozen of the largest school districts on the state’s financial watch list have raised their superintendents’ salaries since 2009.
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June 4, 2012
St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church, where some former students have accused a teacher of physical abuse, has inflated its enrollment and gained thousands in extra federal dollars.
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August 16, 2012
An 11-year-old boy’s ejection from his school highlights how the facilities often aren’t trained to deal with inner-city trauma when it spills into the classroom.
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July 17, 2012
California has funded less than half of the $800 million required, eight years after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit against the state.
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July 5, 2012
State reviews of school lunches found that hundreds of districts have fed children fattening, salty and nutritionally deficient meals and face infrequent oversight.
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June 4, 2012
St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church, where some former students have accused a teacher of physical abuse, has inflated its enrollment and gained thousands in extra federal dollars.
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December 22, 2011
Despite California’s strict seismic safety regulations, the construction process at two school districts illustrates how mismanagement, disregard for safety requirements and allegations of fraud led to structural defects that could endanger students during an earthquake.
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October 24, 2011
More than a decade after voters approved an initiative to limit bilingual education in public schools, the state is using a hodgepodge of programs. Meanwhile, critics contend, young students pay the price.
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June 2, 2011
State lawmakers have struggled for decades to bring equality to how school districts are funded, yet some districts receive thousands more per student than others, a California Watch analysis has found. And the data shows spending more provides no assurance of academic success.
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April 10, 2011
Restrictive rules keep schools from California's seismic repair fund.
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April 7, 2011
A state agency abandons responsibility to fully enforce California’s landmark seismic safety law for schools.
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April 9, 2011
Regulators ignore school construction inspectors accused of corruption and poor work performance.
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January 15, 2011
Two of the state’s largest districts are undergoing a major expansion of health centers on school campuses after promised help from Sacramento never came.
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