Archive for August 2011 - Page 2
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August 26, 2011
Teacher evaluation bill set aside, Open Enrollment and diastat move ahead
Legislation rewriting how California teachers and principals are evaluated stalled Thursday before an Assembly fiscal committee and will not be resurrected before next year.
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August 26, 2011
Torlakson asks feds to freeze NCLB sanctions on CA schools
Noting that 80 percent of California schools are expected to be declared failing under federal law in 2011-12, state schools chief Tom Torlakson called Thursday for immediate relief from pending sanctions.
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August 26, 2011
LAO suggests trimming state support for school construction
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst offered Thursday, sweeping proposals for changing how the state supports new school construction and modernization projects - including a rollback in contributions.
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August 25, 2011
Online resource offers easy access to teacher workforce data
Getting reliable data on the state's teacher workforce in the past could be a trying task - but a new web-based service opened by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning can produce drill-down detail with only a few clicks of a mouse.
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August 25, 2011
Bill calls on HMOs to cover therapy for autistic students
Health care providers in California would be required to cover a widely used behavior therapy for autistic students under legislation scheduled for an initial hearing today in Sacramento.
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August 24, 2011
New high school exit exam shows narrowing of achievement gap
Results released Wednesday from the state's high school exit exam show that the achievement gap between white students, Latinos and African American students continues to narrow.
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August 24, 2011
Wal-Mart nonprofit gives state charter association $15 million
The Walton Family Foundation announced a $15 million grant to the California Charter Schools Association Tuesday that will be used for adding 100,000 more charter students statewide over the next three years.
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August 24, 2011
Reforms tied to NCLB waivers has some states holding out for a better deal
After an initial rush, state interest in an offer from U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to waive basic requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act seems to be waning.
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August 24, 2011
Facilities board to consider eliminating disputed project worksheet
The legislative panel that sets school construction policy is scheduled to consider today modifying or eliminating a controversial form that school districts complain is burdensome and unnecessary.
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August 23, 2011
Corrected Tuesday 5 p.m: Obama jobs bill could be good news for school repair budgets
UPDATE: A prior version of this story incorrectly reported that officials at the Office of Public School Construction had speculated that the need for school modernization had grown since a 2009 survey. The 2009 survey is the most recent estimate.
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