Blog Authors
Roger Phillips
Roger Phillips covers education for The Record. He is from New York and has been at The Record since 2006. He lives in Stockton with his wife, Wendy, and son, Sam. Read FullCategories
Archives
Links
Latest Tweets
- I'm at Banner Island Ballpark (404 W. Fremont St., Stockton) w/ 2 others. http://4sq.com/9t9nMY 4 days ago
- School's name change just the first step | Recordnet.com http://t.co/BTbuK3P 4 days ago
- School for S.J. school boards | Recordnet.com http://t.co/Ra41gza 4 days ago
- I'm at Papapavlo's Bistro & Bar (501 Lincoln Center, off Benjamin Holt Dr, Stockton). http://4sq.com/aeOenf 5 days ago
- Rick Reilly: Jane and Clipper go to the ballpark - ESPN http://es.pn/bANvmr 5 days ago
- More updates...
Posting tweet...
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Success of schools vital to downtown growth
With schools closed the last couple of weeks, I was called upon to write a roundup of the about-to-end decade that is scheduled to appear in Thursday’s paper (For those who say the decade doesn’t end for another year, read Alex Breitler’s story scheduled for Friday’s paper).
As happens, some of the interesting stuff I found [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Aspire Port City Academy, Downtown Stockton, SECA, Stockton Collegiate, Weber Institute 0 Comments
Who will teach the career pathways classes?
Tomorrow’s paper will include a story on a recent report by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning that delves into an issue of great relevance to Stockton Unified and other districts that have — or are trying to develop — small-learning communities with career pathways at their high schools. The report states [...]
Stockton no longer America’s least literate big city
While that may not sound like much of a boast, it is the finding of an annual survey that purports to rank cities of 250,000 or more based on how literate they are. Stockton, which has had a knack for finding its way into the unwanted upper reaches of numerous negative rankings through the years, [...]
Resources available for troubled students
After a teenager commits suicide, survivors often are left asking themselves whether they might have missed warning signs or whether there is something they could have done differently to prevent the tragedy.
It’s an awful and unfair weight for any survivor, let alone for teen peers of a student who has taken his or her life.
For [...]
Today’s meeting: Not quite as good a deal as originally hoped for SUSD
As mentioned yesterday, SUSD hurriedly called a special meeting for noon today, with one item on the agenda.
It’s over now and was about as sparsely attended a meeting as possible. Sal Ramirez was away on vacation. Beverly Fitch McCarthy missed it because she is ill. The remaining five members voted unanimously in favor of adopting [...]
SUSD budget-cutting proposal not expected until late January
Keith Reid has a story in today’s paper about Lodi Unified’s early preparations for slashing nearly $30 million from next year’s budget.The district faces a long list of ugly options.
Stockton Unified, meanwhile, is expecting to slash at least $20.1 million from its 2010-11 budget. But no list of recommendations has been publicly released, and probably [...]
Castillo opponent: Unions will vet replacement candidates
Steve Heaslet led the successful effort to collect signatures to force an election to recall SUSD Area 7 Trustee Dan Castillo. Heaslet could not be reached yesterday when the Registrar of Voters announced that there were enough valid signatures to force the recall election. But he did call in today.
The big question now is who [...]
Posted in SUSD, Uncategorized Tagged claudia moreno, Dan Castillo, Steve Heaslet, Tony Amato 0 Comments
SUSD to hold special meeting at noon tomorrow
Don’t really know much more than that, other than it appears to be for bureaucratic purposes regarding selling school bonds To view the agenda, click here.
Castillo recall advances, Morales recall fails
So proclaimed Austin Erdman, the Registrar of Voters, at 11:53 a.m. I tweeted it awhile ago, but just got to a computer now to provide more information.
SUSD has 88 to 125 days from now to hold a special election. Erdman said no one has come forward yet expressing interest in running for Castillo’s seat. In [...]
Looking back on 2009 with photos from the past year