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San Jose school funding

ELL funds often get misused

  • ELL Funding
  • April 6, 2011
In a department meeting last Wednesday, a teacher proposed we use ELL funds to buy toner for all the English teachers. Her argument was that all...
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Mike Honda praises new appointment to help school funding equity

Congressman Mike Honda (D-San Jose) is one of the leading advocates in Congress for non-profit school funding equity. Honda announced today that he...
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The SFUSD board grapples with the painful $113 million budget gap

Sad accounts of an SFUSD board meeting detailing cuts to handle the state funding crisis are circulating, including today’s Chronicle report...
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Great new idea: Let's have the school district take over the state

Our school district is facing a $113 million budget shortfall due to the statewide fiscal crisis. The ever-looming threat if the district doesn'...
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Join a Town Hall Meeting to support funding schools and our future

Parents, students, educators and all community members are invited to a citywide Town Hall Meeting titled “Public Education: Funding our...
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Special election school funding propositions aren't easy to like

Californians faced with six eye-glazing budget-related propositions in the May 19 special election are desperate for some clarity. San Francisco...
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Newsom drops effort to short schools with Rainy Day Fund

Thank you to Mayor Newsom for allocating a fairly determined amount from the city's Rainy Day Fund to SFUSD. Here's the city press release.03/10/09...
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Protest school funding cuts -- and call for transparency

Before I got to compiling a list of protests and events calling for adequate funding for our schools, parent activist Lisa Schiff beat me to it...
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Mayor Newsom and supervisors, give our schools their due!

Calls for Mayor Newsom to provide the schools with all possible assistance from the city's Rainy Day fund are growing louder and louder. Here's one...
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An easy, effective way to protest state cuts to education

The California state PTA has created a website to enable easy advocacy and outreach to protect education funding:PTA's Economic Recovery Plan:...
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