Archive for October 2010
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October 29, 2010
Mental health advocates seek TRO to restore AB 3632 money
Papers were filed Thursday in federal court seeking an immediate restoration of funding to mental health services for special education students - a program that was eliminated earlier this month by a gubernatorial veto.
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October 29, 2010
State nutrition funding gets $17.5 million boost
The state reimbursement for school meals was raised by $17.5 million in 2010-11 budget agreement, an allocation that food operators are saying is finally enough to cover meals through the end of the school year.
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October 28, 2010
Federal auditors critical of ARRA oversight in Wisconsin, Louisiana
Two final audit reports from the U.S. Department of Education are critical of internal controls of ARRA education money in Wisconsin and Louisiana, according to a report posted Wednesday by the California Department of Education.
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October 28, 2010
Caltrans approves $24m in Safe Routes to School money
Caltrans has announced awarding $24.2 million for this year's Safe Routes to School program that will provide support for 85 projects statewide.
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October 27, 2010
SPI campaign swerves into mudslinging
With less than a week to go before the November election, a shower of negative ads has hit the airways awakening what had been a reasonably quiet campaign for state schools chief.
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October 27, 2010
Feds issue guidance on bullying, discrimination
In the wake of recent highly publicized student suicides, the U.S. Department of Education issued guidance Tuesday to clarify the role school administrator play in responding to and prevention of bullying and discriminatory harassment.
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October 26, 2010
LEAs line up waivers as an out from Open Enrollment
Officials at the California Department of Education said Monday they are being inundated with waiver applications from school districts looking to be excused from the new open enrollment program.
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October 26, 2010
CalPADS cut could hurt DataQuest, too
DataQuest, an online program that provides parents and educators with local and statewide school data, may be diminished as a result of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to cut of $6.8 million from the state's longitudinal student data program.
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October 25, 2010
CDE reverses, calls Open Enrollment list good to go
Officials from the California Department of Education said late last week that they have decided to keep the current Open Enrollment list of the state's 1,000 lowest performing schools.
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October 25, 2010
DIR to suspend labor compliance fee
The state Department of Industrial Relations announced Friday its intent to suspend a labor compliance program of school construction projects over concerns that a related fee might not be legal.
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