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March 2011
 | CSBA Assistant Executive Director Rick Pratt, second from left, joins representatives of the Association of California School Administrators, California State PTA, California Teachers Association and California School Employees Association at a Feb. 1 Education Coalition news conference in Sacramento on the state budget crisis. |
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30 March 2011 - Weeks of budget negotiations between Gov. Jerry Brown and Republicans ended abruptly yesterday. This begs the question as how to close the remaining gap.
29 March 2011 - Presented in collaboration with the California County Boards of Education, CSBA’s Legislative Action Conference brings school governance teams to the state capital for two days of briefings and strategy sessions, capped by meetings with participants’ legislators.
29 March 2011 - Each school met the distinctive needs of its middle grades students by building strong academic and extracurricular programs to support achievement for each student.
29 March 2011 - Only a third of California students are physically fit, according to the “Fitnessgram,” an annual state test that measures students’ abilities in six fitness areas.
25 March 2011 - CSBA urges its members to contact their legislators in support of Brown’s proposal on redevelopment agencies—and, most important, to urge them to let the people vote in June on the revenue extensions.
22 March 2011 - Draft regulations clarifying the process for renewing school charters are available on the California Department of Education’s Charter Renewal and Appeals Web page.
22 March 2011 - CSBA and its Education Legal Alliance plan to seek review of a recent court ruling that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did have the authority to veto funding and suspend a mandate for counties to provide mental health services to students.
15 March 2011 - The Legislature is running out of time to put a measure on the June ballot to extend temporary taxes due to expire this year.
In California School News
If voters agree to extend temporary taxes, K–12 funding will limp along close to existing levels in 2011–12 after losing $18 billion over the past three years.
Representatives from CSBA’s Governmental Relations Department helped the delegation prepare for the Feb. 6–8 conference and scheduled the meetings with members of Congress.
We’re currently looking for members interested in serving on three policy task forces: parent choice, linked learning and teacher/administrator evaluation.
CSBA brings paired programs to three regional sites around the state in the next several weeks.
Your support for CSBA and ELA helps us provide the broadest range of services of any education organization in the state.
All districts, county offices and candidates will be notified of the results by Thursday, March 31.
Cyberbullying, charter schools, teacher effectiveness and teacher placement are just a few of the issues included in the updated document.
The law establishes conditions under which parents at up to 75 academically struggling schools can petition for implementation of one of RTTT’s four inventions: turnaround, restart, closure or transformation.
The association is studying how school board members and administrators can most effectively use data to identify and address the most pressing health problems.
A core objective of the new law is to fight childhood obesity and improve student health.