News Impacting CA School Districts Through March 19
Federal News
The Obama administration released its blueprint for revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which would ask states to adopt college- and career-ready standards and reward schools for producing dramatic gains in student achievement. The proposal challenges the nation to embrace educational standards that would put America on a path to global leadership.
The blueprint provides incentives for states to adopt academic standards that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and create accountability systems that measure student growth toward meeting the goal that all children graduate and succeed in college.
School District Impacts
State Superintendent OConnell issued a press release indicating 21,905 teacher received March 15 notices, while the California Teachers Association shows a number of 23,518 on their website as Friday, March 19. I complied a list of over 100 individual school districts from news reports.
The next wave of stories in the coming months will be how many school districts are able to successfully negotiate agreement on furlough days with their unions. Brea-Olinda reached agreement this week for four furlough days in 2010/11 and eight days in 2011/12. Lompoc reached agreement in eight days in 2010/11.
A few districts are attacking the personnel costs in a different manner. Ceres did not issue March 15 notices but instead is asking for a 8.5% pay cut that administrators and nonunion employees took effective January.
If school districts and unions can agree during negotiations, than more school districts will find themselves in fact finding like Capistrano.
More and more school districts are looking to revenue side to deal with the ongoing state fiscal crisis. Eight school districts in Santa Clara county will be holding parcel tax elections.
As State withholds payments to school districts, districts like Tecemula are experiencing cash flow problems.
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