Archive for January 2013 - Page 3
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January 14, 2013
Budget dustup looms over Prop. 39 energy money as part of school guarantee
The non-partisan Legislative Analyst raised strong objections Monday to the Brown administration's plan to build into the state's constitutional guarantee for schools $450 million in money earmarked for energy efficiency projects.
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January 14, 2013
Governor’s top school aid named to state board
Less than a month after she retired as executive director of the State Board of Education, Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday tapped his former top education advisor Sue Burr to fill a vacant seat on the panel that sets state-wide K-12 education policy.
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January 13, 2013
Uncertain ground complicates accountability remodel
After adoption of common core standards and a proposal to revise assessments, attention now turns to performing a similar makeover for how schools will be evaluated in the future using a system that reduces the influence of test scores.
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January 10, 2013
Brown’s school budget as expected, but sweetens new formula’s base grant
Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a $97.7 billion state budget Thursday, which for K-12 education officials probably held few surprises. As expected there was a boost in the Proposition 98 guarantee of $2.7 billion while setting aside another $1.8 billion to begin repaying prior appropriation deferrals.
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January 10, 2013
Brown contemplates withdrawing from school construction funding
With one hand, Gov. Jerry Brown gave school facility managers the proposed benefit of $450 million generated by the closing of tax loopholes from the passage of Proposition 39 in November.
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January 10, 2013
Brown’s budget provides $2.7B in Prop 98 money over this year
Finding economic recovery coming sooner than most had expected, Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a good news budget for schools that will provide an additional $2.7 billion more in Proposition 98 money than the current year - which was also adjusted upwards.
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January 09, 2013
CA ranks at the bottom nationally on special ed spending and outcomes
Not unlike California's students in the mainstream population, the state's nearly 700,000 children enrolled in special education programs rank near the bottom nationally in reading and math proficiency, according to new findings promulgated this week by the California Department Education.
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January 09, 2013
Focus on Brown’s ed budget will fix on new weighted-formula
While the curtain came down on most of the drama tied to the school budget with the passage of tax increases in the November election, Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to renew his proposal today for completely restructuring how the state funds education - a plan that is likely to dominate the budget negotiations for the coming months.
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January 08, 2013
Torlakson testing plan puts schools, students under the gun
State schools chief Tom Torlakson recommended Tuesday that California move quickly to begin testing students on new common core curriculum standards by the spring of 2015 - a timeline that many districts will struggle to meet and a cause for concern among key lawmakers.
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January 08, 2013
CDE names linked learning program winners
A group of 20 districts, consortiums and offices of education - from Lancaster's Antelope Valley USD to West Contra Costa USD - were named late last week by the California Department of Education to pilot linked learning programs that combine academic coursework, technical training and real-world applications.
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