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September 2008
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5 September 2008 - CSBA, its Education Legal Alliance and the Association of California School Administrators filed a lawsuit Sept. 4 against the State Board of Education regarding its recent decision to mandate Algebra 1 for all eighth-graders in California.
5 September 2008 - A state appellate court has upheld a school board’s authority to censure a board member who breached the board’s rules prohibiting discussion of personnel matters in open session unless the affected employee requests it. The 4th District Court of Appeal agreed with CSBA’s Education Legal Alliance amicus brief position that the board’s censure motion was simply the board’s “speech” protected by the board’s First Amendment rights, according to Alliance Director Richard Hamilton. The censure did not violate the board member’s free speech rights, did not punish the board member and placed no restrictions on his future conduct.
5 September 2008 - The academic performance of California’s public schools continues to grow, and the state has gained traction in its efforts to close the gap between student subgroups, but much remains to be done—and sanctions for falling short of federal targets are ramping up, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell said Thursday.
1 September 2008 - CSBA’s Single District Governance Services unit is now known as Governance Consulting Services, a name that more accurately reflects an evolving emphasis on board-superintendent collaboration to transform governance team leadership for student achievement.
29 August 2008 - Senate narrowly rejects devastating budget proposal but could reconsider it - Earlier today the Senate debated and initially voted down a budget plan that CSBA advocates say would be devastating to public schools because it jeopardizes current and future funding for education and essentially freezes school spending at current—and extremely inadequate—levels. The spending plan, which needed 27 votes, failed, 24 to 15 on a party-line vote. But the vote is on call, and the Senate could reconsider the proposal.