News Impacting CA School Districts Through November 27
Thanksgiving week means it was a quiet week.
Sacramento News
A number of news agencies picked the story reported last week about school districts increasing class size. KGO TV story included a Google map of all the school districts across the state who have increased class size..
Reforming State and Local Governance
One reform thought to help reduce partisan politics would be an open primary. A deal stuck during February 09 will give voters a chance to approve the concept again. The Top Two Primaries Act would require that all candidates compete in a single primary open to all registered voters — similar to the way special elections are run. The top two vote-getters would advance to a runoff.
School District Impacts
About 20,000 Los Angeles school district workers have agreed to four unpaid furlough days to help close a large budget gap. In a concession to unions, Los Angeles Unified Schools chief Ramon Cortines said he will eliminate half the number of local district offices he helped create a few years ago in a bid to reduce next year’s deficit of nearly $500 million.
Bigger classes, fewer teachers, higher pay? That seemed to be the thinking of the Oakland school district’s administration, at least during a special budget meeting in which the board and staff discussed how to reconcile the district’s priorities with a $27 million budget cut (more than 10 percent of the district’s general purpose funds).
For about a year now, Capistrano’s school board – comprised entirely of trustees who ran on the politically popular “reform” platform – has advocated across-the-board, 10 percent salary cuts to balance the district’s budget. So far, only Capistrano’s non-unionized school and district administrators have taken 10 to 11 percent pay cuts.
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