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February 2011
 | CSBA's 2011 Forecast Webcast speakers, from left: Christopher Thornberg, founding principal of Beacon Economics; CSBA Principal Legislative Advocate Erika Hoffman; CSBA Assistant Executive Director Rick Pratt; and CSBA Interim Executive Director Jeff Vaca. The two-hour presentation is archived on CSBA's website. |
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22 February 2011 - California school board members got a detailed overview of federal education issues and visited their local elected representatives on Capitol Hill to discuss the impacts of three straight years of state budget cuts and the end of federal economic stimulus funding.
15 February 2011 - Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor last week listed possible spending cuts that would be needed to balance the 2011-12 budget if the state Legislature rejects Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to allow voters to consider extending some temporary taxes, or if voters reject the extensions.
15 February 2011 - The Parent Empowerment Act and statewide benefit charters will return to the California State Board of Education’s agenda next month after dominating much of the panel’s meeting last week.
1 February 2011 - Representatives of the Education Coalition briefed the news media today about the effects of $18 billion in budget cuts to K-12 education over the past three years.
In California School News
At best, school funding will stay level—but only if voters approve an extension of temporary taxes.
In 2000, the commission had deemed California statutes and regulations on BIPs a reimbursable mandate requiring services beyond those required by federal law. Nothing has occurred since then to change that.
Martha Fluor is president of the California School Boards Association.
SunPower now works with CSBA to provide the Solar Schools Program.
The annual event showcases effective education programs for raising academic achievement among underrepresented student groups.
Delegates serve two-year terms that begin April 1. All new and re-elected delegates are eligible to take part in the May 14-15 Delegate Assembly in Sacramento.
Submissions are due April 1. Information on making proposals will be mailed to CSBA-member school districts and county offices of education.
CSBA’s Board of Directors voted Jan. 22 to support the concept that Californians ought to have an opportunity to vote on extensions. In doing so, the board cited the Policy Platform adopted by the association’s Delegate Assembly.
The proposed budget would maintain programmatic funding for schools at roughly the same level in 2011-12 as it is in 2010-11.
President Obama last month signed a new federal law that allows states to count interns working in the classroom toward their teaching credentials as “highly qualified” under terms of the No Child Left Behind Act.
The board elected Michael Kirst, a nationally recognized education expert and a professor emeritus at Stanford University, as its president as the first order of business Jan. 12.
“2010 Policies in Review” draws on policy briefs and fact sheets the department prepared for the Policy Updates it issued last March, July and November.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Steven Brick on Jan. 14 sustained the state’s demurrer challenging Robles-Wong v. California.