Monthly Archives: January 2008

Administrators: Overhaul No Child Left Behind

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 31, 2008 | Comments closed
You can still vote in the survey on the SUSD bond by scrolling down and clicking “Yes” or “No.” But with a moment to breathe and go through recent e-mails, I stumbled across a press release today from the American Association of School Administrators. It pertains to President Bush’s State of the Union address on Monday [...]
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More on the high-speed deal

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 29, 2008 | Comments closed
    A question was raised regarding the story the other day about Stockton Unified School District’s new $6-million deal with Sunesys, LLC to speed up sluggish Internet connections. Here are some answers:     Yes, I also heard someone say that the funding for the project — federal and state funds — were not 100-percent certain to [...]
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How to read the Measure Q proposals

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 25, 2008 | Comments closed
Before I get into this post, a reminder: You can still scroll down and vote yes or no on Measure Q. Our unscientific poll will remain on this blog through the election. Now down to business, and this will not take long. But I made what I think was a startling discovery this week: Some of those [...]
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Authors and artists — who are they?

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 23, 2008 | Comments closed
Reminder: You can still scroll down and vote yes or no on Measure Q. Our unscientific poll will remain on this blog through the election. Now to something different: Who are the authors and artists the Stockton Unified school board has decided to bring to every school in the district? For the curious, here’s a list [...]
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Register to vote

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 21, 2008 | Comments closed
Regardless of your position on the Stockton Unified School District bond, if you live in the district and would like to vote on Feb. 5, time is running out to register. You have until Jan. 22. Click here to get information. Also, if you haven’t voted in our poll on the bond — and you probably haven’t considering [...]
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Vote in the poll

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 18, 2008 | Comments closed
If you haven’t noticed, you can scroll down a little on this page and take our poll on Measure Q.
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More on Stockton teachers’ non-endorsement

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 17, 2008 | Comments closed
Due to length constraints in today’s paper, a lot went unsaid about the Stockton Teachers Association’s decision to stay neutral on the SUSD bond, rather than endorsing it. An article that appeared late last month foreshadowed the decision. When SUSD business chief Paul Disario was asked last month by a group of teachers to give [...]
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An alternate idea for Edison High

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 10, 2008 | Comments closed
On Tuesday, The Record ran a story that I wrote on a visit to Edison High with new SUSD board member Dillon Delvo. The Record’s ace videographer, Tara Cuslidge, also chronicled the visit. If you haven’t seen her video, it’s worth watching. The point of the visit to Edison, by the way, was to take a [...]
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SUSD biz chief jumps on Hillary bandwagon

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 9, 2008 | Comments closed
Well, the headline might be an exaggeration. In fact, I have absolutely no idea where Stockton Unified School District business chief Paul Disario stands politically. But I will say this: Tuesday night, we sat in his office and he logged on to the Internet, and when he saw the Democratic primary returns from New Hampshire and discovered that Hillary [...]
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Video of Julian Ortega and his parents

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 2, 2008 | Comments closed
Joe Ortega just told me his 9-year-old son, Julian, continues to do well at home. For those who missed the story on Julian, he’s a Stockton resident who was diagnosed with leukemia on Thanksgiving, and spent almost all of the following five weeks at Children’s Hospital in Oakland. He finally came home late last week. [...]
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