News Impacting CA Schools for the Week Ending June 4
Sacramento
For nearly three decades, California’s largest teachers union has all but handpicked the candidate who went on to win the race for state superintendent of public instruction. In a packed field of 12 candidates, three have emerged as the top contenders for the nonpartisan job. All three are Democrats, two of whom are splitting the support of the education establishment, and a third who has attracted support of non-establishment education reformers.
Proposed legislation that would require all incoming kindergartners be 5 years old by Sept. 1 cleared the state Senate on Wednesday and is now headed to the Assembly for consideration. The Kindergarten Readiness Bill, authored by state Sen. Pete Simitian, D-Palo Alto, would move the state’s kindergarten-age cutoff date from the current Dec. 2 to Sept. 1.
School Districts Impacts
In a legal case challenging a school district ability to charge different rates for parcels, Alameda Unified School District received a favorable ruling from Alameda Superior Court. The plaintiffs plan to appeal.
Elk Grove Unified School District teachers gave overwhelming approval Tuesday night to a two-year contract that included a pay cut, nine furlough days, an increase in their medical co-pay and the suspension of an annual bonus from lottery funds.
San Diego city schools on a traditional calendar will end the academic year a week early next year to accommodate five mandatory furlough days for its 15,000 employees, the school board has decided.
The union that represents San Francisco teachers has approved a labor contract that reduces the number of layoffs and shortens the school year by four days.
Teachers in the Long Beach Unified School District will take unpaid furlough days next school year, resulting in five fewer days of student instruction, – the maximum reduction allowed by state officials next school year as part of an effort to help districts balance their budgets.
With their school district facing a $5 million budget shortfall in the next fiscal year, Lucia Mar school district trustees decided Tuesday to show their support for district staff by taking a pay cut. The $456 monthly stipend received by the seven board members will be reduced by 5 percent.
At Natomas Unified School District, the school library has become a luxury that can’t be afforded.
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