Jan. 15, 2013 By Katy Grimes Gov. Jerry Brown announced last week that he will be pushing online education, and made provisions for this in his 2013-14 budget proposal. The governor has already started lobbying the California State University and University of California regents to e...
Posts Tagged ‘Education’CA online education has serious roadblocksTuesday, January 15th, 2013Lawmakers calling Gov. Brown’s bluff on Prop. 30 revenuesTuesday, January 8th, 2013Jan. 8, 2013 By Katy Grimes On the first day of the new legislative session on Monday, two Republican lawmakers wasted no time introducing legislation to add some necessary spending restrictions to Proposition 30. Passed by California voters in November, Prop. 30 increased the income t... Bill would streamline getting a college degreeFriday, January 4th, 2013 Jan. 4, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- The cost of attending California's public universities and colleges has skyrocketed in the last 25 years. "Whereas nationwide tuition and fees at public universities over the last five years have risen on average by 28 percent, the average incre... Education funding overhaulWednesday, January 2nd, 2013 Legislators make new push to gut Prop. 13Thursday, December 27th, 2012Dec. 27, 2012 By Katy Grimes The final votes from the November election were not even counted before state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, introduced a constitutional amendment to Proposition 13 to forever alter the landmark tax-revolt measure. Let the debate begin. Even after pas... More ‘educators,’ less educationMonday, December 17th, 2012Dec. 17, 2012 By Katy Grimes I attended California public schools, kindergarten through college, starting in the late 1960s through the mid 1980s. While I don’t claim to have received a brilliant education, I did receive a solid liberal arts education. This is especially true when my public ... California high school graduationMonday, December 10th, 2012 Will school finance scams be addressed? One of two at bestSunday, December 9th, 2012Dec. 9, 2012 By Chris Reed The push is on to gut Proposition 13, with the nominal rationale being the urgent need to help public education by making it easier to pass parcel taxes. But will the Democratic lawmakers behind this first do anything about two huge education finance scandals? I expl... EdSource look at superintendent turnover ignores union elephantSaturday, December 8th, 2012Dec. 8, 2012 By Chris Reed There are none so blind as those who will not see. EdSource does a 1,500-word analysis of a new study showing far higher turnover of superintendents in large school districts than smaller ones in California, discusses several theories, but never even mentions the fac... Prop. 30 and Prop. 38 tax-and-spenders dogfightFriday, November 2nd, 2012Nov. 2, 2012 By Dave Roberts When the Assembly Budget Committee held an informational hearing in September on Proposition 30, it featured a classic liberal-conservative debate. Trudy Schafer of the League of Women Voters argued that taxes need to be raised in order to save public schools, whic... |