Archive for April 2010 - Page 2
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April 27, 2010
Cal’s STEM takes a hard hit from RTTT judges
As the post mortem continues into California's painfully poor showing in the national Race to the Top competition - one sore spot continues to fester: the big goose egg in scoring on STEM.
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April 27, 2010
Lawmakers, charter school interests spar over accountability measures
A charter accountability bill sponsored by the California Charter Schools Association died in committee last week, but supporters and a Democratic lawmaker who helped kill the bill say they are working on a compromise.
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April 26, 2010
Imperial County schools struggling in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday quake
Three weeks after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake rattled Baja California and Imperial County, school officials are dealing with repair costs soon to exceed $15 million and about 9,000 students that still remain out of class with no date certain when schools would reopen.
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April 26, 2010
Promising revenue trend could boost school funding in May Revise
Budget negotiations won't heat up until after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveils his May Revise in a few weeks, but a recent upswing in state revenues could result in a modest increase in the education funding guarantee.
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April 26, 2010
Senator’s bill would filter out Texas’ revisionist” history in Cal textbooks”
Concerns that extremist" curriculum decisions being made in Texas don't one day creep into California textbooks has prompted legislation that would require additional content screening to filter out the changes."
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April 23, 2010
CTC moves to designate disciplinary rulings as precedential
The Commission on Teacher Credentialing moved ahead Thursday with plans to designate some administrative rulings as precedential and circulate them publicly.
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April 23, 2010
House bill would close loopholes” in Title I comparability”
In an effort to put teeth into existing federal laws that encourage funding equity between schools in the same district, House Representative Chaka Fattah, D-PA, has introduced legislation that would mandate districts meet Title I comparability requirements.
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April 22, 2010
Bill overhauling teacher seniority advances
Lawmakers pushed forward a sweeping teacher dismissal bill on Wednesday that would allow local school boards to eliminate teacher seniority as the main factor in layoff decisions.
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April 22, 2010
New state law invites private groups to train STEM teachers
Legislation passed earlier this year calls on the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to develop alternative educator preparation programs in the areas of science and technology that could include programs offered by the private sector.
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April 21, 2010
CDE’s lowest-performing list doesn’t follow state law
Clarity over what district administrators are supposed to do about California's 188 persistently-lowest performing schools grew even murkier Tuesday with disclosure that the target schools were not chosen in conformance with state law.
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