2012 Year in Review
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January 2013
 | Speaking on the final day of CSBA's Annual Education Conference and Trade Show, CSBA Executive Director Vernon M. Billy thanks governing team members for their service at the always popular State of the State panel discussion. Beginning from the left, the panelists are School Services President and CEO Ron Bennett; CSBA Assistant Executive Director, Governmental Relations, Dennis Meyers; Billy and Kevin Gordon, president of Capitol Advisors, LLC. |
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30 January 2013 - CSBA is pleased that Assembly Member Rob Bonta, D-Alameda, has introduced Assembly Bill 59 to amend the Government Code to clarify an issue that was recently identified following a court challenge.
16 January 2013 - During January, appreciative thanks go out to all CSBA school board members for their hard work and dedication to the schoolchildren of California.
16 January 2013 - January marks the annual observance of School Board Month, and my special opportunity, as your president, to commend each and every CSBA member for service above self in the governance of our local public school districts.
15 January 2013 - Burr and fellow new board member Nicolasa Sandoval will be sworn in at the board’s Jan. 16 meeting in Sacramento, along with reappointed member Ilene W. Strauss.
14 January 2013 - For K-12, the governor would use $1.6 billion to begin implementing a new “local control funding formula to address the increased costs of educating English learners, economically disadvantaged students, and children in foster care.
In California School News
Easy hyperlinks to information and resources from this month's California School News.
Some 2,000 school board members, administrators, and other members of school governance teams met in San Francisco’s state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly Moscone West conference center to participate in informative clinics, workshops and table talks last month.
CSBA’s Stand Up For Education initiative is the newest tool for strengthening local school governance in California.
In his speech to delegates, Vernon Billy summed up CSBA’s strategy and tactics to address “the need for school board members to be able to understand the contemporary nature of change at any given time and understand what it means for governance.”
Marks outlines some of her key priorities for 2013: grassroots advocacy, career technical education, and closing the achievment gap.
Cindy Marks, a longstanding member of the Modesto City Schools District Board of Education in Region 8, took office as CSBA’s president.
The General Sessions featured a mix of discourses on important issues, including talks by Shawn Achor and Susan Cain.
Several of the workshops in AEC’s Funding, Finance and Facilities strand offered suggestions for local bond campaigns, part of the “three-legged stool” of school finance along with state funding and developer fees and other property tax revenues.
This year, 58 outstanding programs that addressed a huge range of student and community needs won coveted Golden Bell awards.
CSBA's new e-publications include the Education Legal Alliance’s twice-yearly summary of Alliance activity and updated editions of the association’s student wellness policy resource guide and its guide for evaluating and improving student wellness policies.
CSBA has launched Stand Up For Education to change public perception about our schools and students and to ensure public education is prioritized on the public and legislative agendas.
Highlights of the year's accomplishments.