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June 2010
 | Nigel Robinson, a student from Folsom Cordova Unified School District and one of the plaintiffs in CSBA's education funding lawsuit, is surrounded by his family and other supporters of public schools at a Sacramento press conference last month. |
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29 June 2010 - The state’s continuing budget crisis and the cumulative effects of more than $17 billion in cuts to education over the past two years have caused the number of local educational agencies threatened with insolvency to spike by 38 percent – and that’s just since January.
22 June 2010 - After a recent independent evaluation concluded that the problem-plagued California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System is significantly “more stable” and “better performing” than it was two months ago.
22 June 2010 - The Supreme Court’s decision in the case, City of Ontario v. Quon, overturns a controversial 2008 decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
22 June 2010 - In a rare move, the Legislature is poised to approve a measure—Assembly Bill 191—that would provide an $800 million "early" payment to school districts and county offices by actually making an on-time payment.
15 June 2010 - O’Connell acknowledged that school leaders throughout the state “are making heart-rending decisions to balance their dwindling budgets while trying valiantly to keep students’ best interests in mind."
14 June 2010 - Appeals court upholds a lower court decision that only licensed nurses can administer insulin injections.
8 June 2010 - The new standards outline a progressive pattern of specific knowledge and skills that aim to prepare students to succeed on the job and in college.
In California School News
Historic lawsuit challenges the very fundamentals of the way California pays for public education.
Some 200 governance leaders from around the state met in Sacramento for two days of training and lobbying at the association’s annual advocacy event.
Frank Pugh is president of the California School Boards Association.
The nearly 300-member body also received detailed briefings on the historic lawsuit filed by the association’s Education Legal Alliance over California’s school finance system and other developments affecting the state’s public schools.
California’s 3rd District Court of Appeal on April 28 upheld a preliminary injunction granted to the Alliance, joined by the Association of California School Administrators, that prevented the State Board from implementing its June 2008 move to require Algebra I tests of all eighth-graders.
CSBA’s Legislative Awards Program honors two to four current members of the state Legislature for their work on behalf of public education.
CSBA’s 2010 Annual Education Conference and Trade Show is coming to San Francisco Dec. 2-4.
Speakers will include. Francisco Rodriguez, president of Mira Costa Community College, and Sylvia Mendez, whose family helped advance equal education opportunities through the landmark desegregation case of Mendez v. Westminster.