Archive for July 2011 - Page 3
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July 18, 2011
Teacher Corps ramps up alternative-route instructors
Amid fears that the ongoing budget crisis is already detracting the next generation of teachers, one of the state's leading alternative certification programs reports that it placed approximately 1,300 math and science teachers into California schools between 2008 and 2010.
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July 15, 2011
QEIA funding question remains unresolved before SBE
After a lengthy discussion before the California State Board of Education, officials from Los Angeles Unified withdrew Thursday a request that would have allowed funding from the Quality Education Investment Act to follow a student transferred to a new school.
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July 15, 2011
Eyeing summer vacation, Legislature passes pertussis bill among others
On a busy final day before lawmakers go on a month-long summer break, the Legislature passed Thursday bills that would extend the deadline for schools to verify that students have received pertussis vaccinations, would impose conflict on interest rules on charters and that would define disruptive school demonstrations as a misdemeanor crime.
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July 14, 2011
SBE takes steps to enforce SIG measures
The California State Board of Education moved Wednesday to shore-up oversight of school districts awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in federal school improvement grants last year but have so far failed to follow through with implementing required changes.
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July 14, 2011
State Board approves Parent Trigger regs
To the wide applause of an overflow crowd of parents and school reform activists, the California State Board of Education approved Wednesday final rules governing the Parent Empower Act.
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July 13, 2011
CTC faces audit monitor, but no major legislative shakeup
Representatives of the beleaguered Commission on Teacher Credentialing are scheduled to return today before the Joint Legislative Audit Committee to provide an update on reforms taken since release of a highly critical audit in April.
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July 13, 2011
Showdown looming for ed bills sent to the suspense’ file
Several key education bills that might impose additional state costs have been moved into the legislative holding cell known as the suspense file' and lawmakers must now decide whether to keep lobbying their colleagues or give up and reintroduce them next year.
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July 13, 2011
Multiple factors appear to play a role in autism surge
The jury may still be out when it comes to the mystery of etiology for autism but we know enough that we can clear one suspect and target others for further investigation.
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July 12, 2011
Pertussis immunization extension zips through legislative committee
Legislation that would give school districts and parents an additional 30 days after the start of the school year to ensure students have received immunizations for whooping cough, passed a key committee Monday and is expected to be taken up in both legislative houses later this week.
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July 12, 2011
June tax collections fall well short of estimates
The new fiscal year has barely begun and already state revenues are $351 million below expectations and the benchmark needed to protect schools from mid-year cuts.
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