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Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, February 29, 2008
Study finds disparity in civics classes
By Martha Irvine/San Francisco Chronicle
Her neighborhood, with its police cameras and abandoned buildings, isn’t known for inspiring hope. Yet, 18-year-old Ariel Williams feels empowered. She’s lobbied her state lawmakers to increase education […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, February 28, 2008
School districts to get help
Coachella Valley Unified faces the most severe sanction of the 97 not meeting targets. By Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
Offering ambitious rhetoric, but relatively few dollars, the governor and education officials Wednesday unveiled their plan to improve 97 school districts […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Worry for schoolchilden who happen to be poor
Editorial/Monterey County Herald
Poor people and schools. Those four simple words are meant to nudge anyone who can help. There is a special need this year for Californians of all stripes to go to the defense of […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, February 26, 2008
EdTrust’s new data tool
Blog by John Fensterwald/San Jose Mercury News
Thanks, EdTrust-West, for making it pain-free to find out how every school is doing — and other vital stats parents and teachers need to know. Raising the Roof is a terrific new data-mining tool that […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, February 25, 2008
Data deficit
Editorial/Riverside Press-Enterprise
California’s best strategy for reducing the number of students who drop out of high school: compile better data about pupil performance. Until the state has a system in place to track individual students’ achievement, recommendations for stemming the flow of dropouts depend […]
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Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, February 22, 2008
Peligra el año de la educación
Year of Education in danger
Amenaza de recortes en la enseñanza empieza a empañar el futuro inmediato de escuelas Threat of education cuts starts to blur schools’ immediate future By Rubén Moreno/La […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, February 21, 2008
California’s schools gird for steep cuts
By Jason Song/Los Angeles Times
The Long Beach school board voted to close an elementary school this week. The Rialto Unified School District, in what is believed to be the first such action in the state this year, sent notices to […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Schools struggle to live up to federal mandates
By Beth Hoffman/Oakland Tribune
IT IS 8:45 a.m. and Roberta Martinez stands quietly in line outside Melrose Bridges Academy with her fourth grade class, smiling shyly at the other kids. She listens intently to the conversations around her, […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Turn public values into public policy - fully fund our schools
Opinion by Sheila Jordan/San Francisco Chronicle Sheila Jordan is the Alameda County schools superintendent.
Twelve months after declaring 2008 the Year of Education, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now proposes $4.8 billion in cuts to education […]
By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego
Principal Thomas Liberto is already pinching pennies wherever he can. At Jerabek Elementary, a top-scoring school in affluent Scripps Ranch, Liberto asks teachers to skimp on specially-lined paper and to skip off-site workshops. If books wear out, I can’t replace them. Certain colors of construction paper are too expensive — […]