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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 11-9-12

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:


PROP 30: Fielding questions about about retroactive income tax

By Tami Abdollah | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC | http://bit.ly/ZckgND November 8th, 2012, 4:14pm  ::  A "Concerned Citizen" wants to know more details on how Prop. 30's retroactive change to income tax affects him. Will he be penalized for inaccurate withholdings? << Royalty-Free/Corbis/Flickr I've received email from a few people concerned about what Prop. 30 means for them. Here's one that

PROP 30 TAX BILLS TO COME SOON: Income tax increases passed by voters on Tuesday will be retroactive to the beginning of 2012. Schools are already making plans.

By Sharon Bernstein., KNBC=TV |  | NBC Southern California http://bit.ly/TPpiyh Jodi Hernandez | Protesters at UC Berkeley make a sign in the wake of the Prop. 30 passage in the hopes of getting rollback tuition rates. Thursday, Nov 8, 2012  |  Updated 4:10 PM PST  ::  The tax-raising ballot initiative that voters approved on Election Day has just been passed, but some Californians will feel

VAST INEQUALITY LURKS BEHIND MIND-NUMBING DATA ON SCHOOL SPENDING

By Arun Ramanathan in EdSource Today | http://bit.ly/SH4aqZ November 4th, 2012  ::  School finance has the power to bring tears to my eyes. Sometimes, when I am reading the latest School Services of California bulletin, I start squinting. Then I start yawning. Then, before I know it, I’m squinting and yawning simultaneously, causing my eyes to water.  When I see the words “revenue limit,” I

WHERE DID THE LOTTERY MONEY GO?

      …..in which Boardmember Galatzan attempts to answer the question asked her – and everyone engaged in California School Finance – most. It’s a question of urban legendary proportion.  I Googled it today and found it asked in a blog about the Chicago Public Schools; Joyce on waveland concerned about neighborhood What happened to the lottery money, it was set up to help the schools.

FOUR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDUCATORS NAMED ‘2013 CALIFORNIA TEACHERS OF THE YEAR’

by City News Service with contributions by KCET Staff,  from KCET | http://bit.ly/UcMyCr 2013 Awardees: Martin Reisert, I'Asha Warfield, Sebastien Paul De Clerck, Veronica Marquez, and David Goldenberg. November 8, 2012 6:00 PM  ::  A South Los Angeles elementary school teacher and Tustin high school teacher were among five educators named today as 2013 California Teachers of the Year.