Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, November 30, 2004:
Summit leaves no good answers By Carol Rock/Los Angeles Daily News
VALENCIA — A meeting billed as a summit on the No Child Left Behind Act featuring U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige and hosted by Congressman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon seemed to leave several of the participants […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, November 29, 2004:
Surging schools PLEA TO GOVERNOR: ‘Keep this system viable’ Opinion by Gayle Cloud/Riverside Press Enterprise Gayle Cloud is president of the Riverside Unified School District Board of Trustees.
Dear Gov. Schwarzenegger, As a board member and parent, I watch education legislation very closely and have become […]
Weekly Recap for November 22-28, 2004:
Reflecting on school funding Opinion by Laurie Olsen/Oakland Tribune (Thursday) Dr. Laurie Olsen is executive director of Oakland-based California Tomorrow. She has been appointed by the Senate Rules Committee of the California State Legislature to the Quality Education Commission.
As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrates his first year in office, its […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, November 25 & Friday, November 26, 2004:
Reflecting on school funding Opinion by Laurie Olsen/Oakland Tribune (Thursday) Dr. Laurie Olsen is executive director of Oakland-based California Tomorrow. She has been appointed by the Senate Rules Committee of the California State Legislature to the Quality Education Commission.
As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, November 24, 2004:
A tale of two states and the board that’s never met Column by Peter Schrag/Sacramento Bee
BOSTON - Sometime in the next three months, the Massachusetts Supreme Court will render a decision in a major lawsuit that asks the state to provide better resources to enable […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, November 23, 2004:
An Education in Expansion L.A. school district says a years-long building program will ‘change the face’ of the city. By Cara Mia DiMassa/Los Angeles Times
Using a combination of aggressive real estate negotiations, political gamesmanship and eminent domain, the Los Angeles Unified School District is scooping up […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, November 22, 2004:
School scores guide home-buying parents By Naush Boghossian/Los Angeles Daily News
LA CRESCENTA — The word of mouth that once guided home buyers to neighborhoods with good schools has given way to more scientific methods as savvy parents go armed with school test scores when they approach real […]
Weekly Recap for November 15-21, 2004:
Students take second shot at exit exam By Louise Cannon/North County Times (Saturday)
OCEANSIDE —- The heat is on for the quarter of Oceanside Unified School District’s class of 2006 that hasn’t passed the California High School Exit Exam. About 450 juniors at the district’s high schools sat down last […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, November 19, 2004:
UC Fee Hikes OKd, Again Regents vote to raise fees for undergrads by 8% and grad students by 10% for 2005-06. Some students say it may make college unaffordable. By Rebecca Trounson/Los Angeles Times
University of California regents voted Thursday to raise undergraduate student fees by 8% and […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, November 18, 2004:
Analyst advises action now to aid budget later Breaking deal on education funds could cut deficit By Lynda Gledhill/San Francisco Chronicle
Sacramento — California might be able to coast through the next fiscal year after tackling a relatively modest budget deficit, but the state is once again […]