Brown’s efforts to restrict community college financial aid rejected - by...
State Senate and Assembly committees have rejected several controversial elements of Gov. Jerry Brown’s recommendations on financial aid and financing of the state’s community colleges. The Assembly...
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Voters favor extra funds for poor students but not English learners - by...
A majority of Californians support Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to provide additional funding to districts with more low-income and English learner students, according to a newly released poll by the...
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Bill restricting ‘willful defiance’ for suspending students moves ahead - by...
With new data showing that more than half of all suspensions and a quarter of expulsions in California schools are for “willful defiance” of school authorities, the Assembly Education Committee voted...
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ACLU sues state over English-language instruction - by Kathryn Baron
Civil rights groups sued the state Department of Education and the Board of Education on Wednesday, saying they are failing in their obligation to require school districts to provide 20,318 English...
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Democrats split on timing, specifics of Brown’s funding formula - by John...
Joan Buchanan, the Democratic chair of the Assembly Education Committee, grilled administration officials at length Wednesday on Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to reform school funding. She wanted, without...
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Bonds would fund business investment in schools under Steinberg proposal - by...
Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento The leader of the California State Senate says the way to encourage more and stronger bonds between industry and education is through, well,...
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Bill aims to help expelled and truant students get back on track - by Susan Frey
The purpose of a complicated bill aimed at preventing students from languishing in alternative schools became much clearer after the testimony of a former student who got stuck in one. Jessie Camargo,...
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Community colleges get boost under governor’s revised budget - by Kathryn Baron
Source: California Department of Finance. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/EdSource Today. (Click to enlarge) Community colleges will receive millions more to begin to restore cut classes, rebuild flagging...
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Governor tries to fix adult ed plan, but controversy remains - by Susan Frey
Vanessa De Lucca, right, demonstrates how to draw blood to classmate Carolina Roma during an adult education class. Gov. Jerry Brown has backed away from a plan to shift adult ed to community colleges....
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Brown commits $1 billion for Common Core, sticks with funding formula - by...
Gov. Jerry Brown proposed Tuesday to direct all of the extra $2.8 billion in revenue that the state expects to receive this year to K-12 schools and community colleges, mostly for one-time uses,...
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Budget plan makes foster youth a priority, but takes away dedicated funding -...
FosterEd Director Jesse Hahnel This story has been updated. Students in foster care will be moving to the front of the class if the new school accountability rules the governor proposed in his budget...
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As legislators debate adult ed proposal, Oakland reinstates its program - by...
Adult education supporters (from left) Sandro Uribe, Gustavo Sandoval, Angelica Pacheco, Isela Palma Marcelino and Ivon Reyes urge the Oakland school board to keep adult education programs. Credit:...
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Fewer school districts in financial trouble - by Kathryn Baron
The number of California school districts facing financial distress has fallen by more than 50 percent, down to 92 from 188 a year ago, according to figures released Tuesday by the State Department of...
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Bill would require school districts to clarify the role of campus police - by...
Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer Unlike most school safety legislation introduced after the Newtown shootings, which called for increased security measures and beefing up school police forces, a bill...
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Poll showing strong voter support for revised budget - by John Fensterwald
Voter support is giving Gov. Jerry Brown a tailwind as he heads into negotiations over the state budget and school finance reform with the Legislature. A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of...
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Reform of California’s school finance system likely - by Louis Freedberg
Louis Freedberg Less than a year after convincing voters to approve a multi-billion dollar tax increase for the state’s schools, Gov. Jerry Brown is on the verge of accomplishing a task that few...
View ArticleNo year’s delay: Deal likely on school finance reform, Steinberg says - by...
The Senate has dropped its call for a year’s delay in implementing Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan for sweeping K-12 finance reform, making it likely a deal over Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula will be...
View ArticleNo agreement yet on how to hold districts accountable for new state money -...
Gov. Jerry Brown’s new school funding system is based on the idea that school districts, not Sacramento, should be given control over spending and then held accountable for students’ results. But with...
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Funding reform worries potential ‘loser’ schools within ‘winning’ districts -...
Until now, the greatest tension over Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed school finance reform has been largely among districts: a political tussle between unhappy suburban and optimistic urban school factions...
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Adult ed, regional occupational centers, partnership academies get reprieve -...
Once-threatened programs that prepare high school students for careers and adults for jobs or college appear likely to get at least a two-year reprieve under the compromise budget plan negotiated...
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