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Friday, April 5, 2013

Natomas district bus driver takes autistic boy to wrong school

A Sacramento mother said she felt panic Tuesday after learning that a substitute bus driver for the Natomas Unified School District dropped her 6-year-old autistic son at the wrong elementary school.

Claremont school district could send layoff notices to five classified employees; denies charter school request

Claremont Unified School District board members voted to send notices telling five classified employees that they could be laid off.

San Ysidro accepts superintendent's resignation

The San Ysidro School District board voted 3 to 2 to accept the resignation of Superintendent Manuel Paul after a nearly three-hour closed meeting Thursday night at the district’s education center in San Ysidro.

Mt. Diablo school district's top attorney failed to disclose potential conflict

Just as the Mt. Diablo school board appears poised to either fire or discipline its top lawyer, an investigation by this newspaper has found that he recommended approving nearly $100,000 in school district contracts for his girlfriend's translation services firm without publicly disclosing their relationship.

Fensterwald: Brown’s funding plan faces vigorous review – and speed bump

The chair of the Assembly Education Committee turned Gov. Jerry Brown’s comprehensive plan for education finance reform into bill form Thursday, ensuring that all aspects will get an extensive review, while raising the possibility that the plan may not pass in time to take effect July 1, as the governor wants.

Parents with power over L.A. school weigh their options

About 50 parents on Thursday attended a presentation to help them decide who should run 24th Street Elementary School, a campus whose fate is in the hands of families who are trying to change the management of the school under the controversial parent trigger law.
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Trial begins in case of autistic girl allegedly assaulted at school

One of the few undisputed assertions in a Bakersfield family's lawsuit against the Kern High School District is that four years ago, an autistic girl was found naked from the waist down in an Independence High School bathroom with a fellow special education student, also partly undressed.

Coachella Valley teachers use website to stock classrooms with needed supplies

In the midst of a statewide cash crunch and shrinking school supply budgets, 60 Coachella Valley teachers have turned to DonorsChoose.org, a crowdfunding website that works to bridge the gap between where school funding ends and creative teaching begins.

Injured Temecula cheerleader to sue district

A Temecula Valley High School cheerleader is preparing to sue the school district because of an accident during a homecoming stunt that left the 17-year-old girl with a traumatic brain injury that she may never recover from, her attorney said.