Friday, July 24, 2009

CALIFORNIA BUDGET DEAL (almost!) CLOSES $26 BILLION GAP – No drilling, No stealing from local gas taxes – but plenty of begging, borrowing and stealing

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By JENNIFER STEINHAUER   | New York Times Published: July 24, 2009 LOS ANGELES — After several days of nearly endless debate, California...

CALIFORNIA BUDGET NEWS UPDATE

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Google News as of 9PM Friday July 24 Assembly approves most of state budget, which now goes to governor Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎...

CALIFORNIA THREATENED WITH LOSS OF FUNDS IF IT DOESN'T USE TEST SCORES IN EVALUATING TEACHERS: U.S. education secretary is expected to withhold millions of dollars in education stimulus money if the state doesn't comply with his demand.

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By Jason Felch and Jason Song From the Los Angeles Times July 24, 2009 -- California could lose out on millions of federal education dolla...

ONLINE SCHOOLS APPROVED IN ROWLAND HEIGHTS: The Rowland Unified School District board Tuesday approved a middle and high school that will exist almost entirely on the Internet.

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Corina Knoll - LA Times/LA Now Blog 1:46 PM | July 22, 2009 Updated 7:51 p.m. [LA Times]: An earlier version of this posting, as wel...

CALIFORNIA SENATE PASSES BUDGET-BALANCING PLAN + BUDGET DEAL HIGH(LOW)LIGHTS

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BY JUDY LIN | ASSOCIATED PRESS FROM THE SANTA ROSA PRESS DEMOCRAT Published: Friday, July 24, 2009 at 7:00 a.m. SACRAMENTO — The Cali...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS BEGIN VOTING ON BUDGET PACKAGE

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By JUDY LIN | ASSOCIATED PRESS 23 JULY | 9:45 PM PDT SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Thursday began voting on a complex budge...

2 MAJOR STICKING POINTS STILL HOLDING UP STATE BUDGET DEAL

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Shane Goldmacher in LA Times LANow Blog 3:56 PM | July 23, 2009 -- Sacramento  -- As they prepare to vote on a budget deal that includes a...

VILLARAIGOSA SAYS ‘CYNICAL’ STATE BUDGET WILL ‘KNEECAP’ OBAMA’S STIMULUS PACKAGE

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LATimes LANow Blog -- Phil Willon at L.A. City Hall 11:34 AM | July 23, 2009 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said this morning th...

DRAFT ‘COLLEGE-AND-CAREER-READINESS’ CONTENT STANDARDS ELICIT MIXED REVIEWS

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By Sean Cavanagh and Catherine Gewertz | EdWeek | Vol. 28, Issue 37 A draft of common academic standards, meant to bring greater coherenc...

‘RACE TO THE TOP’ GUIDELINES STRESS USE OF TEST DATA

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By Michele McNeil \ EdWeek  | Vol. 28, Issue 37 The U.S. Department of Education’s proposed guidelines for awarding $4 billion in Race to...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Steve Lopez: COULD PARENTS SCREAMS JOLT L.A. UNIFIED INTO ACTION? + A letter to Steve

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Parents, fed up by the state of public education, are demanding reforms and threatening to pull out their children, try to shut down schoo...
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smf midweek rant: THE BUDGET

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  Headline in The Times: OPPOSITION TO BUDGET DEAL ERUPTS - LA County threatens to sue, a state workers' union may strike and GOP protes...

LA UNIFIED SCRAMBLING TO DECODE EFFECT OF BUDGET DEAL

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Howard Blume | LA Times LANow Blog 12:24 PM | July 21, 2009 The state budget deal unleashed an epidemic of worry and head scratching amo...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

LONG BEACH UNIFIED TO PUT PARCEL TAX ON NOVEMBER BALLOT

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By Kevin Butler, Staff Writer | Long Beach Press-Telegram 7/21 -- LONG BEACH - Voters in the Long Beach Unified School District will be as...

CALIFORNIA’S EDUCATION SYSTEM TAKES ANOTHER HIT

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By Katy Murphy and Theresa Harrington | MediaNews staff | San Jose Mercury News Posted: 07/21/2009 05:03:38 PM PDT | Updated: 07/21/...

LAWMAKERS STILL WAIT ON DETAILS OF FISCAL PACKAGE

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James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer | RedlandS Daily Facts [LA Newspaper Group] 07/21/2009 09:22:12 PM PDT -- The day after legislative leade...

COURT WON’T HALT NEW LAUSD HIGH SCHOOL IN CARSON …O.K., Long Beach

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The Daily Breeze | from staff reports 07/21/2009 06:16:55 PM PDT -- An appellate court has refused to halt construction of a new Los Angel...

BUDGET AGREEMENT PUTS CALIFORNIA DREAM ON HOLD

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By JENNIFER STEINHAUER | News Analysis |  New York Times uly 22, 2009 -- LOS ANGELES — Even in the 1930s, Woody Guthrie warned America...