OCDE Education in the News

Sunday, November 18, 2007

OCDE NEWSROOM

Tustin softball files information request

Tustin Girls Softball on Friday formally requested information from Tustin and Tustin Unified School District on how athletic fields have been assigned to sports programs in an effort to see if girls softball has been slighted.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/tustin-girls-softball-1924910-district-boys

Teens in Mission Viejo find a reason to be dramatic

About 450 high school students participate in a theater festival in Mission Viejo.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/students-festival-drama-1924917-high-mission

Learning diversity -- from the Inca and Maya cultures

Fourth-graders at Golden Elementary get a "faces-on" lesson about indigenous cultures.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/johnson-students-bradley-1922526-lesson-people

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

State summit targets ethnic gap in student achievement

Institutional racism and a lack of resources are among the possible causes cited in frank discussions at a Sacramento gathering.

http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-me-gap18nov18,1,7714914.story?coll=la-news-learning

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Kids' health funding at risk

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared 2007 the "year of health care reform" in California, but thousands of children could actually lose insurance coverage in the coming months. Locally financed children's programs are running out of money, a hoped-for increase in federal funding has not materialized, and the state is facing a $10 billion budget deficit. At least 55,000 in 25 counties may lose their coverage from local aid programs, advocates say.

http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/500409.html

EDITORIAL

Wilson did it; Schwarzenegger should do it, too

With facing a $10 billion deficit ahead, all options, including taxes, should be open.

http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/498633.html

COLUMN

It's time for the governor to fix budget for good

California's perpetual budget mess made the news again last week. Elizabeth Hill, the state's nonpartisan legislative analyst, offered another gloomy projection: a $10 billion shortfall next year between the tax revenue coming in and the spending required by current law. If nothing is done to close that gap, Hill said, a similar chasm will open a year after that.

http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/498474.html

WASHINGTON POST

'No Child' Data on Violence Skewed

A little-publicized provision of the No Child Left Behind Act requiring states to identify "persistently dangerous schools" is hampered by widespread underreporting of violent incidents and by major differences among the states in defining unsafe campuses, several audits say. Out of about 94,000 schools in the United States, only 46 were designated as persistently dangerous in the past school year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/17/AR2007111701479.html

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