Solano Community College board members will meet tonight in Vallejo to conduct a variety of business.
One agenda item is a teacher’s union demand to negotiate an “impending reduction in force.” The board meeting starts 6:30 p.m. at the Vallejo Center Lecture Hall, 545 Columbus Parkway.
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via Animals and farm life on agenda in Youth Ag Day at Vallejo fairgrounds.
By Sue Frey
A UC Davis study has found that the rise in childhood obesity rates in California is slowing, which researchers think may be the outcome of improved nutrition and physical fitness programs in the state’s public schools.
via Study finds rise in childhood obesity rates in California is slowing.
ROCKVILLE — Limiting spring 2013 enrollment in the California State University system is a “blow to our students,” but isn’t expected to affect many Solano Community College students, college President/Superintendent Jowel Laguerre said Tuesday.
via Limited enrollment to CSUs will affect SCC students, though not greatly.
VALLEJO — P.J. Morgan, a third-grader from Matthew Turner Elementary School in Benicia, learned that roping farm animals is a lot different from tossing his tae kwon do belt in the air.
P.J. was one of about 3,000 third-graders who participated Tuesday in the 10th annual Youth Ag Day at the Solano Fairgrounds.
By Donna Beth Weilenman, Staff Reporter
NELL DaSILVA REMEMBERS when she was called by an employee at Mary Farmar Elementary School and asked if she could come in and help tutor some of the pupils, particularly those in first through third grades.
That was the beginning of a 34-year career with the school. Before she retired two years ago, DaSilva became the school’s office manager.
via Permanent Marker.
California State University will accept no new admissions for the spring semester of 2013 – with a few exceptions – as part of a drastic cost-cutting strategy to reduce enrollment by about 16,000 students next spring, officials said Monday.
The last straw for 17-year-old Alton Burke was a note left on his door. The high school dropout picked up the phone and re-enrolled at South Hagerstown High.
Burke missed roughly 200 days of class, but Heather Dixon, the student intervention specialist who left the note, never gave up on him.
Facing uncertain budget prospects, California State University officials announced plans to freeze enrollment next spring at most campuses and to wait-list all applicants the following fall pending the outcome of a proposed tax initiative on the November ballot.
via Cal State plans to freeze enrollment next spring at most campuses.
Denise Fracchia, Vacaville
Hats off to the Vacaville Public Educational Foundation! Its support, in the form of a mini-grant, made it possible for the St. Mary’s/Vacaville Unified School District Education Forum to sponsor Family Math Day on March 4. This outreach program connects English learners and their parents with educational resources that support student success.
By Alyson Klein
So can the biggest federal investment—and tightest federal strings ever—actually make a difference for the nation’s lowest-performing schools?
That’s the $3.5 billion question behind the School Improvement Grant program, which got supersized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. And so far, the very, very preliminary answer seems to be that the program holds promise.
VACAVILLE — Two classes at Foxboro Elementary School have entered displays in the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show.
FAIRFIELD — Vanden High School students placed in the 2012 California Academic Decathlon in Sacramento.
The decathlon from Thursday to Sunday included 566 students representing 65 high schools and took place at multiple locations in Sacramento.
PALM SPRINGS—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced the creation of the Education Technology Task Force to recommend how to bring 21st Century tools into California’s classrooms to improve teaching and learning.
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It has taken a mess of lewd acts, criminal charges, and threatened lawsuits in Los Angeles Unified to spur calls for reforming the cumbersome process for dismissing teachers for immoral and unprofessional conduct.
via Demands to change teacher dismissals – by John Fensterwald – Educated Guess.
The public will get its final chance Wednesday to weigh in on millions of dollars in proposed cuts to the Vallejo City Unified School District.
First homeless in 2007 in Dixon, Camille Chester recalled feeling confused.
“Are we ever going to get a home?” the Willis Jepson Middle School student remembered asking herself during that time. “There were five of us (living) in a compact car. I slept sideways.”
via Vacaville Unified School District officials tracking nearly 100 ….
BENICIA — As part of the effort to make walking and biking to school safer for children, volunteers and others will conduct two audits of common routes in Benicia this week.
via ‘Audits’ try to make walking to school safer for Benicia kids.
The author of a study that could result in a change to the definition of autism, one that could exclude many people from being diagnosed as autistic, now says more study is needed before the definition is adjusted.
via Scientists Disagree on Need for Rewrite of Autism Definition.