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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Autistic boy voted out of class (update at bottom)
This is a family photo of 5-year-old Alex Barton:
If you haven’t heard this disturbing story, Alex has been at the center of a huge controversy in Port St. Lucie, Fla., which is about 115 miles north of Miami. Recently, Alex’s kindergarten teacher, Wendy Portillo, reportedly allowed her students to decide whether they wanted [...]
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Committee to recommend SJCOE as DAIT provider
SUSD’s curriculum committee — or at least two-thirds of it — met Tuesday evening to decide whether to recommend the San Joaquin County Office of Education or a private company, Action Learning Systems, as the district’s DAIT provider.
It was pretty dry stuff, but the topic itself is a crucial one. DAIT stands for [...]
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Disario placed on paid leave
The full story will be in tomorrow’s paper. Here’s the press release sent out late this afternoon by Stockton Unified.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
STOCKTON – Paul Disario,
Chief Financial Officer for Stockton
Unified School
District, has voluntarily asked to be placed on
immediate administrative leave five weeks before he was set to retire from the
district. The request [...]
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Sticking her neck out
After more than six months of reporting on school-related issues, I have found that while many people who work in education are willing to gripe, almost none are willing to be quoted by name about anything remotely controversial (though several Stockton Unified school board members and former SUSD athletics administrator Joe Martin have been [...]
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Good morning, Stockton
If anyone is keeping score, the SUSD board meeting ended at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. The first closed session ended after 90 minutes at 7:30. The public session ended at 10:45. Then they went into closed session again to discuss a possible interim deputy superintendent.
They announced that the second closed session would probably take about five [...]
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Quiet before the storm?
First of all, I should have done this at the beginning of the week, but better late than never … On Sunday I wrote a story on Measure Q, and online, there’s an interactive map with school-by-school info on the planned projects. Just click on a school name, and you can find out everything [...]
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A sad world
I can’t stop thinking about Mayra Lopez.
I can’t stop thinking about Aaron Kelly.
When do we hit bottom? When do things start to get better?
Last week, I wrote about a $3.4-million grant for small learning communities at Stockton Unified School District’s high schools. The grant is held up in a political battle [...]
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Budget talk hits the tube
The California budget mess isn’t going away anytime soon. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed $4.8 billion slash of public K-12 spending continues to be the hottest topic in California education, understandably. For Stockton Unified, the situation has forced it to grapple for ways to cut $10 million from its 2008-09 general fund budget. Every [...]
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And in a related matter …