April 26, 2011, 12:05 AM
The likelihood is growing that many school districts will have to cut the number of days students spend in class in response to the state's deepening budget crisis, according to state education leaders and experts. But despite fears that the coming school year could shrink...
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April 22, 2011, 12:06 AM
A Berkeley High School student says she endured months of sexual harassment from her guidance counselor and the school wouldn’t do anything about it. In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in San Francisco, the student, a senior identified as Lilah R., contended that the Berkeley...
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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 22, 2011, 12:06 AM
The first time John Sinnott Elementary School sent the note home for the kindergartner's parents to sign, it was not returned. The second time, the note – printed on an 8.5-by-11-inch sheet of pink paper – was pinned to the student's shirt. Requiring parents to sign off on...
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March 21, 2011, 12:05 AM
Forcing a child to repeat a grade level when they fail to master academic material is one of the most contentious and controversial decisions a school can make. But it can be the best decision for a struggling student's future, according to a recent study by the Public Policy Institute of...
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March 10, 2011, 12:05 AM
The biggest teachers union in Los Angeles will likely ask the state Supreme Court to overturn a recent court decision blocking teacher layoffs at 45 struggling schools. A.J. Duffy, president of the United Teachers of Los Angeles, told California Watch this week that his group is seriously...
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February 25, 2011, 12:06 AM
The majority of California's K-12 school districts are failing to comply with the state Public Records Act, according to a report released yesterday by the nonprofit group Californians Aware. The organization requested documents from more than 250 public agencies last fall, including half...
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January 26, 2011, 12:06 AM
School districts that violate the state's guarantee to a free education by illegally charging fees for classroom and extracurricular activities would have a portion of their annual budget withheld under newly proposed legislation. The bill, authored by Assemblyman Ricardo Lara, D-Bell...
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January 25, 2011, 12:06 AM
As schools in California brace for another difficult year, new forces have emerged that are poised to reshape the education landscape in California. In recent months, most attention has focused on traditional power centers of educational politics in California, including the governor,...
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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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January 24, 2011, 12:05 AM
Policies that strengthen data tracking and improve pre-kindergarten programs are needed now to ensure the state's children are successful in the 21st century, according to a study released last week by the Public Policy Institute of California. The report, "California 2025: Preparing...
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January 18, 2011, 12:07 AM
School districts are grappling with an excruciating dilemma: whether to plan for the coming school year based on the assumption that taxpayers will approve tax increases in a special election in June, or on an equally uncertain assumption that they will reject it. For school districts,...
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January 12, 2011, 12:06 AM
California received a C grade and ranked 30th in the nation in an annual education survey released yesterday. Published by the nonprofit group Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, the 15th annual Quality Counts report is based on surveys sent to the chief state school officers in...
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January 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union settled a lawsuit accusing the Schwarzenegger administration of allowing school districts to charge students illegal fees for classes and extracurricular activities. The agreement with the state was touted as a victory for parents and the poor. ...
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December 21, 2010, 12:05 AM
Michael Kirst, a Stanford emeritus professor and a confidant of Jerry Brown for more than thirty years, is the leading candidate to become president of the State Board of Education, according to education sources. It would be the same position Kirst occupied 35 years ago during the first Brown...
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