Want a guest speaker at your high school graduation? How about President Obama? The White House is sponsoring a contest to have the president speak at a high school’s graduation ceremony this spring. The contest is linked with the Race to the Top program and the laundry list of criteria [...]
California is in. State schools chief Jack O’Connell and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday morning signed the state’s application for Race to the Top federal funding. “The Race to the Top application outlines how we intend to make systemic changes to our education system in order to accelerate the development [...]
SACRAMENTO -- About 700 California school districts, representing about 80 percent of the state’s students, have signed on in support of the state’s application for the Obama administration’s Race to the Top plan and accompanying dollars, according to Janelle L. Kubinec, associate vice president of School Services of California. While [...]
By the way, the student rep on the Santa Rosa School Board, Montgomery High senior Rena Wang, is scheduled to get feted by the State Board of Education in Sacramento Thursday. Readers will likely remember Wang from a story I wrote on Dec. 30 about her myriad political and academic accomplishments. (Read [...]
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 [...]