Archive for January 2013
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January 31, 2013
Feds, CDE offer middle school grants to support students with disabilities
California middle schools in high needs districts are eligible to compete for a share of an $11 million federal grant awarded to improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities.
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January 31, 2013
CTC approves enhanced standards for Adaptive PE authorization
The state's Commission on Teacher Credentialing moved Thursday to enhance standards for existing teachers in special education to also become certified in adapted physical education.
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January 31, 2013
Mandate Commission approves BIP reimbursement formula
District administrators should prepare for filing claims related to Behavioral Intervention Plans in late summer or early fall, following action late last week by the state panel that arbitrates reimbursable mandates on local government.
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January 30, 2013
Early learning plan builds on diverse delivery system, calls for more oversight
An advance draft of a much-anticipated plan for guiding early childhood learning in California recommends the state take steps needed to broaden access to quality programs, create pathways for workforce development and better engage families.
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January 29, 2013
Support builds for tougher school safety plan requirements
Bipartisan support appears to have coalesced behind a proposal to better enforce a state requirement that all schools have updated safety plans.
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January 29, 2013
Brown’s budget would give CTC some needed breathing room
After suffering through one of the most difficult budgets in agency history, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing is looking forward to an increase in spending authority in 2013-14 of $653,000 and no reductions in staff positions.
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January 29, 2013
Legislation would put enforcement teeth into school safety plan requirement
To remedy the problem of school districts not developing or updating school safety plans, Sen. Ted Lieu, D- Torrance, has reintroduced legislation putting stronger enforcement components into existing law to promote compliance.
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January 27, 2013
New federal athletic guidance calls for equal opportunity for disabled
Few would deny that athletics are an integral part of school activities in the United States. Yet for many students with disabilities full participation in these programs has often been blocked if not overtly denied.
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January 27, 2013
Teachers get hands-on instructing algebra to at risk middle school students
There was a time when Mike Moser's math classes would have looked like most others in America. Students sitting in straight rows; eyes up front. No talking to neighbors and, certainly, everyone does their own work. Moser, too, would have led the room in a conventional manner, with his back mostly to the kids. Things are a little different today.
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January 25, 2013
Auditors looking at LEAs, CDE and anti-bullying enforcement
Spurred perhaps by disturbing disclosures out of the school shooting incident in Taft earlier this month, the Bureau of State Audits has launched a review of how local educational agencies deal with on-campus bullying as well as state oversight.
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