Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, June 30, 2006
Money to help students pass exit exam OK’d By Laurel Rosenhall/Sacramento Bee
A small sliver — less than 1 percent — of the $131 billion budget the Legislature approved Tuesday is supposed to help struggling students pass the California High School Exit Exam. […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, June 29, 2006
A Path From a ‘Dropout Factory’ to UC Berkeley By Sandy Banks/Los Angeles Times
At Fremont High, the school motto is also a message: Find a path or make one. For senior Luz Elena Gutierrez, that path wound through hallways crowded with dispirited peers, around inexperienced […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Exigen padres cambios disciplinarios en las escuelas Parents demand discipline changes in schools Por Rubén Moreno/La Opinión
Decenas de padres de estudiantes se presentaron ayer por la tarde frente a las puertas del Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los Ángeles (LAUSD) para pedir a su junta directiva y […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, June 27, 2006
States Inflate School Graduation Rates, Report Says By Claudio Sanchez/NPR
All Things Considered · There are serious gaps between the high school graduation rates that states report and the actual number of students who receive a diploma, according to a new report. The study, from […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, June 23, 2006
Villaraigosa’s Plan For L.A. Unified Faces Opposition in Classrooms Some teachers back the proposal, but many say more local autonomy could undo recent gains. By Duke Helfand & Joel Rubin/Los Angeles Times
The teachers of Cahuenga Elementary near downtown Los Angeles had a message Thursday for Mayor […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, June 22, 2006
Deal gives L.A. mayor more power over schools By Aurelio Rojas and Laura Mecoy/Sacramento Bee
Capping a year of negotiations, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa reached a compromise Wednesday with legislative leaders and teachers unions, gaining some authority over his city’s 727,000-student school district, but not total […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, June 21, 2006
State Urgency Over Exit Tests Fades With Time By David J. Hoff/Ed Week
California state officials are gearing up for a busy summer of helping high school seniors who have been unable to earn a diploma because they failed the state’s graduation test. There will be state-financed […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Improving California’s exit exam for English learners Opinion by Laura Wentworth McCloskey and Maria Lizet Ocampo/San Francisco Chronicle
There is something wrong with our educational system when Liliana Valenzuela, a high-school senior with a 3.84 grade-point average and ranked 12th in her high-school class, cannot pass the […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday June 19, 2006
California Exit Exam Disrupts Diploma Ceremonies By Elaine Korry/NPR
All Things Considered · It’s graduation time in California high schools, and "certificate" time for the 47,000 students who did NOT pass the state’s new high school exit exam. That’s creating some awkwardness at commencement ceremonies.
How […]
Top Stories for Saturday, June 17 and Sunday, June 18, 2006:
Reasons for challenging the exit exam By Arturo J. González/Sacramento Bee
Most people who are critical of the lawsuit challenging the exit exam are uninformed both about what the suit seeks and about the basis for filing it. The lawsuit does not argue that California […]