Important Notes About Education In Your Area
The Redondo Beach school board voted 3-2 Tuesday night to eliminate sixth grade at Jefferson Elementary, the last grammar school in the district that hasn’t converted to a K-5. The move means that come 2012-13, Jefferson parents will no longer have the option of sending their sixth-graders to either the elementary school or Parras Middle [...]
SACRAMENTO – California lawmakers on Tuesday sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum. The bill, passed on a party-line vote, adds lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as well as people with disabilities to the [...]
LENNOX School board official attends reception with president: Lennox School Board member Marisol Cruz recently returned to the South Bay from a trip to Washington, D.C., where she and others in a group of young elected officials met with members of the Obama administration and attended a reception with the president himself. Cruz and several [...]
After months of debating and lamenting the fiscal crisis, Los Angeles Unified officials Thursday finalized the budget for the 2011-12 school year, using employee concessions and about 3,000 layoffs to help close a $408 million deficit. The state budget signed Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown, however, could prompt the district to review its books and [...]