Monthly Archives: March 2009

Classified positions affected by layoff proposal

By Roger Phillips | Published: March 28, 2009 | Comments closed
     Here are the positions affected by SUSD’s proposed classified cuts, according to a district draft:      Accounting Asst. I- (Categorical CPM), 10.88 FTE; Accounting Asst. II, 1.0;  Accounting Asst. II (ROP), 1.0; Administrative Asst., 1.0; Administrative Asst. (First 5), 0.05; Attendance Tech (Secondary), 1.875.      Behavior Specialist, 4.0; Bilingual Asst/Spanish (First 5), 0.88; Bus Drivers (Transportation), [...]
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Wednesday’s SUSD agenda

By Roger Phillips | Published: March 27, 2009 | Comments closed
     SUSD is proposing to eliminate 162 classified positions at next week’s special meeting at Franklin. Sixty-six of the positions are currently vacant, Superintendent Tony Amato said this afternoon. The largest group of employees hit by the proposal is custodians (37 positions). Twelve bus drivers, three police officers and two police sergeants also are affected [...]
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SUSD special meeting upcoming

By Roger Phillips | Published: March 27, 2009 | Comments closed
     Stockton Unified is expected to hold a special board meeting Wednesday at Franklin High. No agenda has been released at this time. Closed session at 5:30 p.m., open session at 6 p.m.      Hopefully, there will be more details later today, but the topic of the meeting apparently will be layoffs to classified staff.
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Tracy invades Sacramento

By Roger Phillips | Published: March 27, 2009 | Comments closed
     About 400 students, parents and administrators from Tracy Unified paid a visit to the state Capitol today.      The purpose of the trip — beyond the educational aspect of the journey — was to get in the ears of politicians about the funding of education. The visitors got their chance in the offices of Lt. [...]
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SUSD unveiling SLC plans

By Roger Phillips | Published: March 26, 2009 | Comments closed
     It’s a bit more than four months until Stockton Unified opens for the 2009-10 school year. SUSD is planning to implement major reforms to its four comprehensive high schools between now and then — mainly by establishing “smaller-learning communities” at Chavez, Edison, Franklin and Stagg.      This afternoon, the district sent out a news release [...]
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Just a thought

By Roger Phillips | Published: March 25, 2009 | Comments closed
     Two items in the news this morning got me thinking (which could be a dangerous thing).      First of all, there’s the story about Lincoln Trustee Ted Bestolarides and his incendiary Cesar Chavez e-mail.      Then there’s the story about the L.A. school board voting to make Cesar Chavez Day on March 31 a school holiday. [...]
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SFA debate continues in KC

By Roger Phillips | Published: March 24, 2009 | Comments closed
     Success For All, the K-8 reading intervention approved after the hiring last year of SUSD Superintendent Tony Amato, is still being used in Kansas City, Mo., at the last district he ran. It was first implemented in KC in 2006. According to a recent article in the Kansas City Star, “the district’s woeful scores [...]
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Tracy caravan is a go

By Roger Phillips | Published: March 24, 2009 | Comments closed
     The organizer of a Tracy Unified caravan to Sacramento to speak to politicians said today he expects eight buses carrying close to 400 students, parents, teachers and administrators to make the trip Thursday morning. Officially, it’s an educational trek; the students will get to see how state governments works (or doesn’t) while attending scheduled [...]
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Erasing the ‘R’ word

By Roger Phillips | Published: March 23, 2009 | Comments closed
     When President Obama made his ill-advised joke on the Tonight Show last week comparing his bowling abilities to those of Special Olympians, it opened the door for a bigger discussion about something that seems to have seeped with greater frequency in recent years into polite everyday conversation.      That would be calling someone a retard [...]
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Reforming schools — in D.C.

By Roger Phillips | Published: March 23, 2009 | Comments closed
     Reading this N.Y. Times column on the Washington, D.C., schools and their superintendent inevitably makes one think about things closer to home.
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