UPDATE: A few comments from Frank Pugh's discussion on www.capradio.org. "We could reform the timing of the state budget in relation to local school board budets which are totally out of sync," he said. “We hope it works out,” Pugh said of negotiations with the governor's office. "We are moving forward [...]
Santa Rosa School Board member Frank Pugh is also president of the California School Boards Association and as such he spent Wednesday in Sacramento alternately lobbying for greater education funding in the governor’s upcoming budget proposal and trying to figure out what is going on with Race to the Top. [...]
UPDATE: Yes, CSBA offices are in W. Sac... just thought the hometown should get a mention too. ___ Santa Rosa School Board vice president and newly elected president of the California School Boards Association, Frank Pugh, wrote a scathing letter to the editor in the Sacramento Bee Wednesday. The letter [...]
Heading into January when board members will likely make decisions on approximately $5.6 million in cuts beginning in the 2010-11 school year, (with the prospect of $4.7 million more for 2011-12), the Santa Rosa School Board has appointed new officers for the upcoming year. Bill Carle is president, Frank Pugh [...]
UPDATE: Since the CSBA declined to reward any lawmakers this year, I wondered who was honored last year. This just in from Frank Pugh: The Board of Directors ratified the following state lawmakers who have earned CSBA's annual recognition for working actively to improve California's public schools and exercising legislative [...]