July 5, 2011, 12:05 AM
The Tehachapi Unified School District violated civil rights law by failing to stop the persistent bullying of Seth Walsh, a 13-year-old gay middle school student who committed suicide, federal investigators have concluded. As a result of a settlement with the U.S. Justice and Education...
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June 22, 2011, 12:05 AM
A bill that recently sailed through the Senate would shift the policymaking powers of the State Board of Education to the superintendent of public instruction and the state's Department of Education. Sponsored by Sen. Carol Liu, D-Pasadena, SB 204 seeks to untangle what has been a complex...
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June 6, 2011, 12:05 AM
A bill that would allow schools to train employees to administer medication to children during a seizure passed out of the state Senate last week, despite strong opposition from nurses and teachers. As drama in the state Capitol goes, this bill has it all. It brings years of budget...
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May 27, 2011, 12:05 AM
A $4.5 billion experiment intended to give schools greater flexibility over state education dollars has resulted in cutbacks in some programs targeting students who need the most academic help. That is among the findings of a report issued this week by the RAND Corporation and Policy...
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May 27, 2011, 12:05 AM
A Northern California high school district is no longer restricting access to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy websites after the American Civil Liberties Union recently intervened on behalf of a student. "I wanted to start a gay-straight alliance at my...
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May 25, 2011, 12:05 AM
Many of today's kids would rather spend hours on a high-octane video game like "Civilization" than poring over "The Odyssey," Plato's "Republic" or some other literary classic. And that may not be as bad as you might think. A growing number of experts and...
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May 24, 2011, 12:05 AM
Three California schools appear in the list of the top 25 schools most successful in preparing students for college, according to the Washington Post's controversial "Challenge Index" published yesterday. They are hardly typical California schools. The highest-ranked...
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May 20, 2011, 12:05 AM
Deep in Gov. Jerry Brown's May revision of his January budget is a possible solution to a major conflict over funding mental health services for special education students. Brown this week proposed that schools, not counties, be responsible for paying for mental health services,...
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May 17, 2011, 12:05 AM
Even as school districts around California are shrinking their school year, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington is trying to push states to move in the opposite direction. Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, and other Democratic and GOP lawmakers, have introduced the Time for...
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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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May 12, 2011, 12:05 AM
Legislators voted yesterday to fast-track an audit of the office that oversees public school construction after a recent California Watch investigation found it had routinely failed to enforce earthquake safety laws. During a morning hearing, members of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee...
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May 6, 2011, 12:05 AM
For more than 40 years, the state regulator of public school construction approved projects without thoroughly assessing liquefaction, landslides and other earthquake hazards because it doubted the scientific justification and didn't want to pay for the extra work, according to agency and...
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April 29, 2011, 12:05 AM
Compared to most states, California is performing abysmally when it comes to schools making "adequate yearly progress" as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind law. According to a new report from the Center on Education Policy, 61 percent of California schools failed...
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April 28, 2011, 12:05 AM
Fear of teacher layoffs and other cuts to public schools is leading a majority of Californians to support some combination of spending cuts and taxes in order to close the state's $26 billion budget gap, according to a Public Policy Institute of California poll released today. A majority...
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April 27, 2011, 12:05 AM
Today, after trying for more than two years to get regulators to listen to his concerns about seismic hazards at Pescadero High School, Bryan Burns will get his chance to speak to a statewide audience. When he got an e-mail confirmation he was one of several tapped to testify in front of a...
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