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December 2010
 | CSBA and School Services of California Inc. experts team up for analysis of last month's elections during a SSC webcast that's available for viewing through Dec. 8 at www.sscal.com. Pictured, from left, are CSBA Assistant Executive Director for Governmental Relations Rick Pratt; SSC Vice President Maureen Evans; SSC President Ron Bennett; CSBA Assistant Executive Director for Policy Analysis and Leadership Development Holly Jacobson; and SSC Vice President Robert Miyashiro. |
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14 December 2010 - Over three days, attendees filled the meeting rooms and exhibit halls at Moscone Center to listen to almost 200 presentations in the areas of budget and finance; community, communication and collaboration; emerging trends in education; leadership through governance; student achievement; and technology.
14 December 2010 - “We need to come together as the largest group of elected officials and insist that our students become the number one priority in our state,” new President Martha Fluor, referring to all school board members in the state, told the Delegate Assembly.
10 December 2010 - CSBA and other plaintiffs in the historic California school finance lawsuit, present oral arguments to Alameda County Superior Court
In California School News
Education Legal Alliance lawsuit argues that only the state Legislature, not the governor, has that authority.
New Gov. Jerry Brown must address a $19 billion chasm between general fund revenues and expenditures—and that’s on top of the $6 billion current-year gap.
Applications are being accepted through Jan. 12 to present breakout sessions on model programs.
Friday, Jan. 7, is the deadline to submit nominations and candidate biographical sketch forms for prospective members and incumbent members of CSBA’s Delegate Assembly.
The National School Boards Association’s 38th annual Federal Relations Network Conference will take place in Washington, D.C., Feb. 6-8.
Voters throughout California approved nearly 73 percent of the bond measures for K-12 education in last month’s balloting but only 11 percent of the parcel taxes.
The Division of the State Architect is considering new ways to cope with a huge backlog of school construction projects that were closed without being certified and now stand in the way of sorely needed renovation and modernization projects.
Initiated by the National School Boards Association in 1995, School Board Recognition Month is a time for school districts, county offices of education and others to recognize the contributions of local school board members.
CSBA is once again offering a midyear program to help cash-strapped school districts and county offices of education deal with shortfalls caused by the state’s continuing delays in paying schools what they’re owed.
Frank Pugh is president of the California School Boards Association.
CSBA’s popular workshops on the Brown Act and Board Presidents Workshops and our Institutes for New and First-term Board Members will begin traveling the state soon afterward.