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December 2009
 | “We need to find long-term solutions to the tangle that is education financing,” CSBA President Paula S. Campbell urged last month during a Sacramento press conference highlighting impacts that state budget cuts have had on public schools. |
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22 December 2009 - CSBA’s Delegate Assembly met in San Diego earlier this month to get legislative, fiscal and policy updates, elect new officers and directors and rally support for CSBA’s “State of Our Schools” letter-writing campaign ahead of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State address.
15 December 2009 - “I urge every school board member to send us an S.O.S. letter before the end of the year. Let your legislators know that they can no longer balance the state’s budget on the backs of our schools,” CSBA Executive Director Scott P. Plotkin said.
15 December 2009 - Frank Pugh, a veteran community college professor and longtime Santa Rosa City Schools board member in Region 3, took office as CSBA’s president during the association’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show in San Diego earlier this month.
15 December 2009 - With a Jan. 19 deadline approaching, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the state Legislature and the Department of Education are scrambling to make California’s “Race to the Top” federal grant application as competitive as possible. If successful, California could receive a grant of from $350 million to $700 million, officials estimate.
In California School News
“Our students simply cannot sustain further cuts. It’s time for our leaders to focus on real priorities—and for voters to hold those accountable who don’t,” said CSBA President Paula S. Campbell.
CSBA’s annual Forecast Webcast, Wednesday, Jan. 14 is an essential part of the association’s continuing work to help its members weather the fiscal storms.
Paula S. Campbell thanks the "heroes" in California schools and reflects on her year as CSBA's president.
Schools are encouraged to set aside one week between Jan. 1 and March 30 as “2010 Census in Schools Week” to help reinforce the importance of participating in the census.
CSBA has prepared an online toolkit to help recognize local school board members.
Thursday, Jan. 7, is the deadline to submit nominations and biographical sketch forms for prospective members and incumbent members of CSBA’s Delegate Assembly.
School board members who participate in the National School Boards Association’s annual Federal Relations Network Conference in the nation’s capital Jan. 31–Feb. 2 will have a unique opportunity not only to see how federal education policy is crafted, but to help influence the result.
“Revisions to the 2008 and 2009 State Budgets” is now available on CSBA’s Web site.
California voters around the state showed themselves willing to dig a bit deeper to raise money for cash-strapped schools, passing seven of 11 parcel tax measures and two of three school bonds on last month’s ballot.
“This research project is both timely and relevant,” said CSBA Deputy Executive Director Martin Gonzalez. “I am optimistic it will help us zero in on solutions to some of our most perplexing barriers to student learning and achievement. If we can improve the health of students, we just may be able to tackle some of the root causes of the achievement gap.”