Archive for February 2011 - Page 3
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February 13, 2011
Obama’s ed budget likely to shift billions into competitive grants
President Barack Obama is scheduled to unveil his budget plan for the 2012 fiscal year today - with the education component expected to shift billions of dollars now awarded by formula to a system more reliant on competitive grants.
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February 10, 2011
SBE goes back to bimonthly meetings, new committee assignments suggested
The California State Board of Education will return to a bimonthly meeting format after a brief experiment with meetings every month, board president Michael Kirst announced Thursday.
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February 10, 2011
New Brown majority on SBE approves class size waivers
Citing the state's ongoing fiscal crisis, the California State Board of Education voted Thursday to provide waivers to a long list of local educational agencies wanting to increase class sizes without state financial penalties.
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February 10, 2011
January tax collections jump, but not enough
January tax collections provided state fiscal managers a mixed bag of results, although an overall increase of 8.1 percent above estimates suggests a recovery of some sort seems to be underway.
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February 10, 2011
Aspire looks at a rocky path for reapproving statewide benefit schools
With a complex legal conflict looming, the California State Board of Education put off discussion Wednesday on what to do about Aspire Public Schools' campuses approved three years ago under the board's statewide benefit" authority. "
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February 10, 2011
SBE calls Parent Trigger’ law problematic, seeks revision
Adding doubt to an already uncertain process, the California State Board of Education called Wednesday for clean-up legislation to the state's newly-launched Parent Empowerment' program and directed staff in the interim to look at fixes to shaky regulations already in use.
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February 09, 2011
Facility bills seek to make school projects more energy efficient, better planned
Responding to concerns that schools are falling behind California's strides in technology and infrastructure, state Sen. Alan Lowenthal has introduced legislation to provide more energy-efficient school facilities and to have them conform with the state's other plans for public construction.
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February 09, 2011
Passive action by state board gives LEAs waivers from Open Enrollment
In a quiet but significant shift of state education policy, 40 school districts will be granted waivers from a newly-enacted state law giving parents and students new freedom for out-of-district transfers, state officials confirmed Tuesday.
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February 09, 2011
Governor reconsiders EIA funding cut
The Brown administration appears to be backing off a proposal to cut $54 million from the Economic Impact Aid program after an updated analysis shows the reduction would have significant impact on the state's most at-risk students.
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February 08, 2011
Flexibility expansion proposal falls flat, rumors suggest list might be trimmed
Lawmakers appeared indifferent Monday to a proposal from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst to expand categorical flexibility to new programs such as K-3 class size reduction.
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