News Impacting CA Schools for the Week Ending August 30
Federal
First came the announcement that California was not going to receive Round 2 Race to the Top funding. Then came the finger-pointing about the lack of cooperation with the teachers unions. In the end, California’s poor reform track record proved its to be it undoing.
Sacramento
After getting a waiver from the Federal government, the California Board of Education awarded monies for the federal School Improvement Grants. While addressing some of the shortcomings of the first proposal, there is still plenty of room for improvement.
With the governor’s signature of SB 1422, students have won the right to express views of their teachers. It will take another bill, however, to win the right to actually be listened to.
School Districts Impacts
The closer Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gets to leaving office and the longer the budget stalemate drags out, the more frank he seems to become. As a result, the State begins withholding/deferring payments to school districts.
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