News Impacting CA Schools for the Week Ending May 28
Federal
California’s application for improving its longitudinal data system to track students from pre-kindergarten through high school, college and into the workplace has also been given the cold shoulder. The system would have allowed the state to assess the effectiveness of its education programs, as well as monitor the progress of students through the entire education system.
They haven’t heard yet why the state placed 26th out of 50th in a grant competition that funded only the top 20 states. But they shouldn’t be surprised if the feds’ answer is, “Are you kidding? Why would you expect taxpayers to enlarge a data system when you have yet to get it to work right?”
Sacramento
For school board members who have aspirations for higher office, having to make decisions about keeping your school districts fiscally sound can come back to haunt you. Larry Miles is finding out the hard way, as his opponents uses attack ads that highlights his actions on belt tightening in his school district.
School Districts Impacts
Teachers in the Oceanside Unified School District have reached a tentative agreement with administrators to shorten teachers’ work year by six days next year and five fewer in the 2011-12 school year. The work year would then return to 185 days in 2012-13.
Ninety-three percent of the 2,150 union members who cast ballots last week supported the tentative three-year contract with the Long Beach Unified School District that ratified a labor deal that would have them take five unpaid furlough days next school year.
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