Thursday, May 23, 2013        


Check back tomorrow for a story on school funding.
5/23/2013 12:00 AM PST Check back tomorrow for a story on school funding.
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Decision on statewide facilities bond will have to wait until 2014
5/23/2013 12:00 AM PST Legislation needed to place a statewide bond measure before voters to help pay for school construction projects will have to wait at least another year, officials said Wednesday.
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Budget and & Finance
May budget delays adult ed transfer, long-term funding worries persist
Education advocates are applauding Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision to fund...
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Just as K-12 online learning hits tipping point, evaluation program threatened
Driven in part by the coming implementation of common core curriculum ...
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Curriculum & Instruction
New study shows CA last nationally in educating low-income families
Findings from a new study on California’s under-educated would seem to...
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Trial run finds more LEAs prepared than thought for computer-based testing
State officials are hailing the results of a two-week pilot test on K-...
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Politics & Education
LAO takes cautious tone on Brown’s plan to put $1b into common core
UPDATED to provide clarification of Senate Democrat's school funding p...
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CA, feds suspend talks on latest NCLB waiver application
In a cryptic release Monday, state schools chief Tom Torlakson and edu...
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Human Resources
SBE acts to secure waiver of Title I carryover rule
The California State Board of Education accepted an offer from federal...
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Districts collaborate to make one of CA’s best attendance oversight programs
It might seem incongruous that one of the state’s best truancy prevent...
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Facilities
Tracy district wins state waiver for use of capital appreciation bonds
After a month’s reflection, the California State Board of Education ha...
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New money, new regulations for school construction projects
At the same time a recent state bond sale has provided $500 million fo...
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Special Education
New autism definition out this week, feds and Congress not yet onboard
More than two years in the making, the latest update of the national g...
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Feds’ civil rights unit reconsiders focus of disciplinary hearings under IDEA
A case involving an autistic sixth-grade Texas student has led to a le...
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