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January 2008
 | “The Pursuit of Happyness” author Christopher Gardner, whose autobiography chronicles his commitment to the responsibilities of fatherhood despite great obstacles, addresses CSBA’s recent Annual Education Conference and Trade Show in San Diego. |
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5 February 2008 - USDA warning on bad meat prompts reminder of CSBA food safety fact sheet
5 February 2008 - Analysis from CSBA’s Governmental Relations Department
23 January 2008 - State Superintendent Jack O’Connell outlined an ambitious agenda to overcome the gap in achievement between racial and ethnic students in his annual State of Education address.
10 January 2008 - A federal appellate court panel issued a major ruling this week in a legal challenge to the No Child Left Behind Act.
10 January 2008 - Analysis from CSBA's Governmental Relations Department
In California School News
Let's work to put the puzzle together: Words alone cannot explain how honored I am to serve as your 2008 president. I look forward to working with CSBA’s talented Executive Committee—President-elect Paula Campbell, Immediate Past President Kathy Kinley and newly elected Vice President Frank Pugh—and our wonderful Board of Directors and Delegate Assembly on CSBA’s agenda to ensure that the association’s vision becomes a reality for all of the 6.3 million public schoolchildren in California.
Below are some outreach tips to help you better engage your legislators and their staff in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., on behalf of CSBA. School governance leaders are encouraged to work with their local CSBA Governmental Relations Chairs and Federal Governmental Relations Chairs to advance the education agenda and to maintain support for our public schools.
A compilation of testimonials from the 2007 CSBA Annual Education Conference and Trade Show
Paul H. Chatman, board president of Ocean View School District in Oxnard, became president of the California School Boards Association at the close of CSBA’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show in San Diego last month.
CSBA’s Delegate Assembly has voted to oppose a voter initiative sponsored by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association that would limit public agencies’ ability to use their powers of eminent domain to acquire private property; the delegates also voted to take no position on a competing measure sponsored by the League of California Cities.
This year’s CSBA Forecast Webcast will feature a panel of experts discussing the latest news on the increasingly troubled state budget outlook—and offering advice on how to adjust local budgets accordingly.
Maxine Frost, CSBA president in 1981 and a 40-year member of Riverside Unified School District, died Nov. 27 in Riverside. She was 76.
There’s no doubt that California public schools can engage underachieving black, Asian and Pacific Islander, Latino, American Indian and juvenile court school students—but they can’t do it alone. That was the message delivered by CSBA’s Student Issues Conference Groups in a set of well-attended workshops at the association’s Annual Conference.
An impromptu summit meeting between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and leaders of CSBA and other education groups during CSBA’s recent Annual Education Conference and Trade Show gave participants reason for long-term optimism despite short-term budget worries.
A pair of full-day symposiums, one on student achievement and special education and the other on legal issues for experienced board members, along with an orientation for new trustees and the first day of CSBA’s Delegate Assembly, preceded the CSBA’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show in San Diego.
More than 4,000 school board members, administrators, students and others involved in public education gathered at CSBA’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show in San Diego Nov. 29–Dec. 1 for courageous conversations about the complex challenges facing California students and their schools.