Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, August 31, 2006
A good deal for schools Settlement isn’t perfect, but it will help Editorial/Sacramento Bee
There’s some grousing over the bill to implement the settlement of a lawsuit filed by the education community against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, but it’s basically a good deal. The settlement would send […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Billions aimed at troubled schools Measure would use funds from lawsuit to shrink class sizes at 500 sites. By Clea Benson/Sacramento Bee
About 500 of California’s lowest-performing schools would share $2.9 billion to reduce class sizes over the next seven years under an agreement being worked […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Good Schools Can Happen By Lyric Wallwork Winik/Parade Magazine
The decline of our public schools is a well-known story. Where once the U.S. led the world in high school graduation rates, we’re now below average among developed nations. Yet it isn’t as hopeless as […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, August 28, 2006
Scores offer questionable results for local schools By Cynthia E. Griffin/Our Weekly
As Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles Unified School District battle in the state legislature for the next two weeks over who will ultimately claim control of the nation’s second largest school system, […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, August 25, 2006:
Los Angeles Teacher’s Transfer Is Protested Supporters say the popular union activist at Crenshaw High is being punished by the district for butting heads with the principal. By Mitchell Landsberg/Los Angeles Times
A year ago, Crenshaw High School had a new principal and a mandate to dig […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, August 24, 2006:
Minority parents support exit exam By Jocelyn Wiener/Sacramento Bee
Most African American, Asian American and Latino parents support the California High School Exit Exam and believe the main function of the public education system should be to prepare their children for college, according to a study […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, August 23, 2006:
Slight gain lauded in senior tests By Laurel Rosenhall/Sacramento Bee
The second batch of high school seniors required to pass the California exit exam in order to graduate is starting the school year with greater success on the test than last year’s seniors, Superintendent Jack O’Connell […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, August 22, 2006:
Exit exam pass rate improves By Luis Zaragoza/San Jose Mercury News
State officials are pointing to a 1 percent improvement in the percentage of incoming seniors who passed separate sections of the California high school exit exam as an encouraging sign of progress. In announcing a […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, August 21, 2006:
Sac City vows to fix lack of data for parents Reports on schools weren’t compiled, translated as suit settlement requires. By Laurel Rosenhall/Sacramento Bee
Officials with the Sacramento City Unified School District are not providing parents all the information the law requires they disclose about each […]
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Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, August 18, 2006:
Hundreds Worldwide Hit by Loss Of AP Tests By Valerie Strauss/Washington Post (Friday)
Sections from hundreds of Advanced Placement exams taken around the world in May have been lost, according to the company that scores the tests, and […]