Monthly Archives: April 2009

SUSD Live — 8:59 p.m.

By Roger Phillips | Published: April 29, 2009 | Comments closed
     CSEA’s Dan Morris on Superintendent Tony Amato’s apology and his saying that the district will be collaborative with employees (see 8:40 p.m. post):      “I am in a very difficult place believing we’re going to have collaboration,” Morris said. “We’ve been up here saying we would be collaborative with the district and superintendent. We put [...]
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SUSD Live — 8:48 p.m.

By Roger Phillips | Published: April 29, 2009 | Comments closed
     Another SFA note:      The board approved spending $6 million on the program last summer. For months, there have been accusations that the district spent more than that on the program — perhaps as much as $10 million or even more. Superintendent Tony Amato repeatedly has denied this.      In fact, Amato has said the district [...]
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SUSD barely alive — 7:11 p.m.

By Roger Phillips | Published: April 29, 2009 | Comments closed
     There’s a special meeting of the board taking place tonight at Chavez High in the auditorium. I’d hoped to be blogging live, but there’s been too much going on so far that needs to be dealt with for the paper. I’ll try later if time allows.      However, the meeting started with a bang.      Community [...]
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A little more on ’stereotype threat’ — with an update

By Roger Phillips | Published: April 22, 2009 | Comments closed
     Today’s story on the Stanford CAHSEE report attributed some students’ struggles on the high-school exit exam to “stereotype threat.” The Stanford finding is that some minority and female students have additional stress when taking tests because they fear they will confirm the stereotypes about their groups.      SUSD assistant superintendent Julie Penn cited her personal [...]
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Raising autism awareness

By Roger Phillips | Published: April 20, 2009 | Comments closed
     Back from vacation, I looked at my e-mail for the first time in 10 days and learned of an upcoming concert in Stockton intended to raise autism awareness.      Malo, El Chicano and Manzo are scheduled to perform at the Civic Auditorium on May 15.
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More bleak news on Stockton dropouts

By Roger Phillips | Published: April 10, 2009 | Comments closed
     The California Dropout Research Project at UC, Santa Barbara released a report today with more discouraging news about Stockton dropouts — not just Stockton Unified, but the whole city.       The report quantifies the economic costs to Stockton associated with its schools’ high dropout rates. Additionally, of the 17 cities studied in the report, Stockton [...]
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The latest on IB

By Roger Phillips | Published: April 9, 2009 | Comments closed
     Earlier in the week, it looked as if SUSD board member Gloria Allen was going to put an item on Tuesday’s meeting agenda that would have resulted in a discussion about the expansion of Franklin’s International Baccalaureate program to include sixth- through eighth-grade students. Eventually, this could have led to a re-vote on the [...]
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There’s a new blog in town

By Roger Phillips | Published: April 8, 2009 | Comments closed
     Award-winning Stagg High journalism instructor Don Bott’s students have started blogging, about anything and everything. Studying journalism these days means learning about all the new technology that wasn’t available back in the Stone Ages.      Here’s part of one post by student Erin Lund: “Growing up my parents seldom told me I was cute. It’s [...]
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Grant parents tour school options

By Roger Phillips | Published: April 8, 2009 | Comments closed
     Yesterday and today, a group of parents from soon-to-be-closing Grant Elementary were taken on a bus tour by Stockton Unified of schools that their children will have the chance to attend next school year. Yesterday, they visited Taft, McKinley and the new A.G. Spanos schools. Today, they visited Huerta, Pittman and Hazelton. Trustee Gloria [...]
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SLCs — the choices

By Roger Phillips | Published: April 8, 2009 | Comments closed
     Stockton Unified unveiled its smaller-learning communities at an event yesterday at the Civic Auditorium. Here, according to the district, is what each high school will be offering: CHAVEZPerforming artsInformation technologiesPublic service and lawHealth care assistantEngineering/environmental scienceBusiness financeFreshman academy EDISONCrime-scene investigation and lawMultimedia and the artsEngineering and designHealth, medical and sports careersInformation technologyWeb, game design and business [...]
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