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 | CSBA Vice President Josephine (Jo) Lucey is among those urging visits to legislators' district offices to advocate for public schools on Board Member Action Day June 8. See the video on CSBA's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/csbavideo. |
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29 May 2012 - Louise A. Perez, a veteran school board member with the Sacramento City Unified School District who served as CSBA president in 1995, died May 8.
23 May 2012 - CSBA’s Delegate Assembly voted to endorse both November ballot initiatives for education funding during its biannual meeting in Sacramento May 19-20.
9 May 2012 - The Legislative Analyst’s Office confirms what CSBA has heard anecdotally from school board members and administrators from around the state: Local educational agencies are not counting on additional revenues from any ballot initiatives expected to go before voters in November.
9 May 2012 - With floor sessions now scheduled in both houses of the state Legislature June 1, CSBA has shifted its Board Member Action Day to June 8.
3 May 2012 - The federal E-rate program for discounted Internet access requires school districts and county offices of education to update their Internet safety policy by June 30.
In California School News
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Board Member Action Day June 8 is CSBA’s newest legislative campaign to strengthen critical local leadership connections in support of public schools.
As part of a comprehensive reorganization, CSBA reduced 10 major divisions to just seven, organized around its core mission.
Since there have been no dramatic differences between public governance and private management, what can we really say about charters?
Teri Burns analyzes education policy issues to provide direction and advice to the association, school districts and state policymakers.
Executive Director Vernon M. Billy recently visited five school districts and multiple school sites, including elementary, middle and high school classrooms and after-school programs.
The CSBA Delegate Assembly is CSBA’s primary policy-making body and the key link in CSBA’s governance structure.
CSBA’s new associate general counsel Elaine Yama-Garcia will manage the Education Legal Alliance along with General Counsel Keith Bray.
Former CSBA President Frank C. Pugh of Santa Rosa City Schools was elected a Pacific Region director of the National School Boards Association.
CSBA’s guidebook, “Safe Schools: Strategies for Governing Boards to Ensure Student Success,” can help governing boards develop a comprehensive and coordinated approach to ensuring school safety.
Lottery revenues provide less help for schools than many people assume.
Hundreds of California public schools have been singled out as examples of how to raise academic achievement among economically disadvantaged students.
The James Irvine Foundation has awarded $400,000 to the California School Boards Foundation to support the work of the association’s new Linked Learning Task Force over the next two years.