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Exercise in, junk food out at nation’s schools, CDC study finds - by Jane Meredith Adams 27 Aug 2013 | 12:15 pm
More school districts require physical education in elementary school, according to a new national report. File photo by Lillian Mongeau, EdSource Today Increasing numbers of school districts nationw...
Teachers deserve a shot at running their schools - by Charles Taylor Kerchner / commentary 27 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
Ted Kolderie, the Minnesotan who had a large hand in drafting the nation’s first charter school law, is selling ideas again. This time he’s promoting teacher-run schools, or at least greatly enhanced ...
School bullying prevention efforts falling short, state audit says - by Jane Meredith Adams 26 Aug 2013 | 12:37 pm
Photo from Flickr under Creative Commons license Responding to concerns that schools should do more to stop bullying, a new state audit found that most schools do not track whether their anti-bullyin...
Restored funding creates 8,300 new state preschool slots - by Lillian Mongeau 24 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
Days after the news that federal Head Start programs in California will be serving thousands fewer children this year, the California Department of Education announced that state preschool programs wi...
Key education bills await action as session deadline looms - by EdSource staff 23 Aug 2013 | 12:24 pm
Whatever education bills the Legislature passes in the next four weeks will pale in importance compared to its monumental achievement of 2013, the Local Control Funding Formula, Gov. Jerry Brown’s swe...
San Francisco city attorney sues over City College accreditation fight - by Michelle Maitre 23 Aug 2013 | 06:04 am
San Francisco’s city attorney has sued the state accrediting commission to block attempts to revoke City College of San Francisco’s accreditation. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, represents yet another ...
Schools rising from budget depths, EdSource report finds - by John Fensterwald 22 Aug 2013 | 12:55 pm
With the passage of Proposition 30 and implementation of a new funding system channeling more money to most districts this fall, the 2012-13 school year will be the base for measuring how well schools...
Creative leadership lies between top-down and bottom-up - by Merrill Vargo / commentary 22 Aug 2013 | 12:32 pm
Merrill Vargo Whenever I say that “neither top-down nor bottom-up approaches to change work in public education,” educators nod in agreement. But when it comes to acting on this insight, agreement is...
Former head of alternative schools in Los Angeles challenging Tom Torlakson - by John Fensterwald 22 Aug 2013 | 08:25 am
Marshall Tuck The former chief executive of the nonprofit that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa created to run alternative schools within Los Angeles Unified is challenging Tom Torlakson’s run for a second...
Survey: Americans in the dark about Common Core, not keen on standardized tests - by Lillian Mongeau 21 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
The public’s opinion of public education is a mixed bag of approval and trust on the one hand and misunderstanding and concern on the other, according to an annual poll released Wednesday. More than ...
