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San Francisco Chronicle, 12.09.08 03:02 UTC

Budget impasse = more crowded classrooms

(09-11) 19:21 PDT -- Teacher Melissa Roman is supposed to have just 20 kids in her Algebra 1 class under a program meant to keep math classes small so students learning Engish can get enough ...
SACRAMENTO  Union City  Union City  California  Logan High  long-term solution  +14 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 10.09.08 03:31 UTC

More students failing to pass exit exam

(09-09) 19:48 PDT -- Far more California high school students failed the Exit Exam and did not graduate this year than last year, a decline that state educators blamed largely on the fact that test ...
Los Angeles  learning disabilities  California  Students receiving special-education services  Gloria Romero  Jack O'Connell  +5 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 04.09.08 17:01 UTC

Emeryville school superintendent resigns

(09-03) 21:51 PDT Emeryville -- Embattled Emeryville school chief Stephen Wesley resigned on Wednesday, the same day The Chronicle revealed that he had apparently misrepresented his credentials on ...
Emeryville  SAN FRANCISCO  The Chronicle  search  Stephen Wesley  Joshua Simon  +4 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 03.09.08 16:03 UTC

EMERYVILLE / School head's resume riddled with falsehoods / Hopeful district hired experienced administrator who claimed positions he never held, degrees he never earned

The choice of veteran educator Stephen J. Wesley to run Emeryville schools last spring was meant to signal a new beginning for the tiny East Bay district still in recovery from bankruptcy and scandal ...
Washington, D.C.  Albuquerque  SAN FRANCISCO  Gulfport  Emeryville  developmental disabilities  +35 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 16.08.08 01:02 UTC

State's schools improve, achievement gap widens

The state's public school students improved in reading, writing and mathematics this year, marking five years of near-steady growth on the tough California Standards Test, results released Thursday ...
SAN FRANCISCO  Contra Costa County  Sonoma County  Alameda County  San Mateo County  Californians Together  +13 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 14.08.08 17:02 UTC

Steady growth shown on California Standards Test

(08-14) 09:17 PDT -- The state's public school students improved yet again in reading, writing and mathematics, marking five years of near-steady growth on the tough California Standards Test, ...
Jack O'Connell  Nanette Asimov  Department of Education 

San Francisco Chronicle, 17.07.08 01:31 UTC

California high school dropout rate far higher than expected

(07-16) 16:23 PDT SACRAMENTO -- California's first true count of high school dropouts shows that one in four kids quit school last year - 127,292 - which is far more than state educators estimated ...
California  Jack O'Connell  Nanette Asimov  Department of Education 

San Francisco Chronicle, 13.07.08 16:03 UTC

State's schools lack cohesive plan for autism

State's schools lack cohesive plan Along autism spectrum, personalities contrast Podcast: Students cope Search for services Left to himself, 11-year-old Jonah Kasoff slips easily into what his family ...
Pleasanton  SAN FRANCISCO  Santa Clara  Palo Alto  Hayward  Vallejo City  +60 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 10.07.08 14:32 UTC

Algebra 1 to be required for all 8th-graders

(07-09) 20:50 PDT -- All California eighth-graders in public school will have to take Algebra 1 beginning in 2011 under a policy approved Wednesday by the state Board of Education in an 8-1 vote. The ...
California  Samantha Sonda  James Aschwanden  Johnathan Williams  Ruth Bloom  David Lopez  +19 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 10.07.08 04:34 UTC

California eighth-graders required to take Algebra, starting in 2011

(07-09) 20:50 PDT -- All California eighth-graders in public school will have to take Algebra 1, beginning in 2011, under a policy approved today by the state Board of Education in an 8-1 vote. The ...
California  Samantha Sonda  James Aschwanden  Johnathan Williams  Ruth Bloom  David Lopez  +19 more
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