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January 2011
 | Moderator John Fensterwald, left, settles in to discuss the State of the State at the final General Session of CSBA's Annual Education Conference and Trade Show in San Francisco Dec. 4. Panelists are CSBA's Rick Pratt and fellow education policy experts Kevin Gordon and Jannelle Kubinec. |
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25 January 2011 - The coalition that brought the lawsuit will assess further legal options and decide how best to move forward.
25 January 2011 - CSBA’s Board of Directors voted Jan. 22 to support the concept that Californians ought to have an opportunity to vote on extensions.
20 January 2011 - The economy seems poised to turn around, economist Christopher Thornberg predicted during CSBA’s Forecast Webcast Jan. 13, although most Californians probably won’t feel like a recovery is under way for a while yet.
18 January 2011 - A new federal law 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.
18 January 2011 - Michael Kirst, president of the State Board of Education during Gov. Jerry Brown’s first two terms in office decades ago—wielded the gavel again when the 11-member panel met in Sacramento last week.
11 January 2011 - To help close the budget gap, the governor proposes $12.5 billion in spending cuts, $12 billion in revenues, and $1.9 billion in other measures.
11 January 2011 - CSBA’s Education Legal Alliance last week filed what Director Richard Hamilton called a “broad constitutional challenge” against California’s mandate reimbursement process.
11 January 2011 - Gov. Jerry Brown moved swiftly to put his stamp on California’s State Board of Education, nominating seven people to the 11-member panel in his first week of office.
10 January 2011 - On Monday, January 10 Governor Jerry Brown released his proposal for “a tough budget for tough times.” Noting that “short-term measures and gimmicks adopted in recent years did not solve our problem and in fact made it worse,” the governor proposes to close the $25.4 billion budget gap with a nearly even mix of spending cuts and revenues. The budget also would phase out redevelopment agencies and proposes “a far-reaching realignment of government functions by restoring to local government authority to make decisions that are best made closer to the people, not in Sacramento.”
In California School News
The final General Session of CSBA’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show in San Francisco last month set the stage for the association’s next Forecast Webcast, coming over the Internet Jan. 13.
Attorneys for CSBA and other plaintiffs in the historic California school finance lawsuit, Robles-Wong v. California, presented oral arguments and responded to questions from Alameda County Superior Court Steven Brick during a Dec. 10 hearing.
Fluor: 'It is time that we unleash the clout' of California's 5,000 school board members and other elected officials.
CSBA’s Delegate Assembly added to the association’s strides toward greater openness and shared decision making during two days of discussions, deliberations and action in San Francisco last month.
Martha Fluor encouraged all local school board members to advocate for California’s public schools with a statewide voice as she prepared for her term as president of CSBA.
School board members, administrators and others involved in public education flocked to CSBA’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show in San Francisco Dec. 2–4 for insights to help them cope with mounting fiscal challenges and exacting demands for student performance.
Keynote speakers Pedro Noguera and Ian Jukes acknowledge that the enormous challenges facing public education in an era of change that Jukes called “amazing, astounding and remarkably disruptive.”
Each was named CSBA’s Outstanding Legislator of the Year for 2010 in recognition of their work to promote the interests of public schools in the face of devastating budget cuts and purported education reforms.