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October 2007
 | Miller addresses NCLB forum at Vallejo City USD
U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, shown here addressing a Vallejo City USD forum on the No Child Left Behind Act in August, began hearings on NCLB's reauthorization before his House Education and Labor Committee last month. |
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19 October 2007 - The Legislature adjourned for the year on Sept. 12. In the month that followed, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acted on 964 bills that the Legislature had sent to him.
12 October 2007 - The new school year is shaping up as a critical period, with "the wheels [already] coming off" a bare-bones state education budget, CSBA Executive Director Scott P. Plotkin and Assistant Executive Director Rick Pratt warned in the association's recent Back-to-School Conference and Webcast.
In California School News
U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, shown here addressing a Vallejo City USD forum on the No Child Left Behind Act in August, began hearings on NCLB's reauthorization before his House Education and Labor Committee last month.
Charter school facility requests will continue to be governed by existing regulations for the 2008-09 school year following the state Board of Education’s decision to withdraw controversial new rules that it had submitted to the Office of Administrative Law for review.
Following are the candidates put forward by CSBA’s Nominating Committee for 2007 President-elect and Vice President of the California School Boards Association. Election of officers takes place during the Nov. 29 CSBA Delegate Assembly meeting in San Diego. Statements appear exactly as received by CSBA.
During the upcoming Year of Education, much attention will focus on high schools and their graduation rates.
As of Sept. 12, when the state Legislature adjourned the regular session for this year, 48 bills on which CSBA had adopted positions had made it to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s desk.
The ink was barely dry on the state budget for 2007-08 before a legal challenge to the spending plan was filed in Sacramento County Superior Court. As expected, the California Transit Association went to court Sept. 6 seeking an injunction to stop a $1.3 billion shift from the Public Transportation Account to the state general fund for other transportation-related programs—including $99 million for the Home-to-School Transportation Program.
School board members and administrators with the Roseville Joint Union School District were vindicated last month when a federal judge threw out the lawsuit filed by a local parent who claimed the district violated his free speech and other constitutional rights by unfairly limiting his challenges to the district’s high school evolution curriculum because he is a Christian.
Children with asthma miss an average of 2.6 days of school per year due to their illness, according to a recently released survey by the California Department of Health Services on the prevalence and impact of asthma.
In a victory for school districts, an appellate court has issued a decision (San Leandro Teachers Association v. Governing Board of the San Leandro USD) upholding a district policy that prohibited the use of district mailboxes to distribute union newsletters containing political endorsements.
CSBA’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show always offers an abundance of learning opportunities for governance teams. Aside from the conference keynote speakers, presentations and workshops featuring education and governance experts from around the state and across the country, the exhibits and demonstrations on the trade show floor will give conference-goers an up-close look at a wide variety of products, services and innovative approaches to helping students and employees.