Education

  Teachers Unions Play Balkanization By Larry Sand, Union Watch,  5/28/13    CTA and NEA embrace Progressivism, indulge in identity politics and celebrate everything but America.  Each teacher shall endeavor to impress upon the minds of the p...

  Inglewood Unified School District at risk of being ‘vaporized,’ administrators say By Rob Kuznia, Daily Breeze,  5/29/13 The hired guns who are trying to keep the Inglewood Unified School District from dissolving in debt are beginni...

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Valedictorian, co-president of the mathletes and vice president of the key club –  a good list of accomplishments for any graduate, but the path for new graduate Lloyd Chen at Laguna High school wasn’t exactly typical.

You’d have to …

While Democratic lawmakers push Gov. Jerry Brown for a more generous budget, clear majorities of Californians affirmed the governor's cautious approach in a new Public Policy Institute of California poll. A solid 61 percent of California residents who...

When Professor Peter Baird took his first-year student seminar class on a Peak Adventures rock climbing expedition in the spring, he was concerned the rainy weather would cause problems.

SACRAMENTO, May 28, 2013 — A new report shows that less than half as many California school districts are in financial jeopardy now as a year ago, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced today. The state's Second...

http://youtu.be/xP-sywpkfts By Sierra Gamblin, age 16 Foothill High School Video Editor Thien Pham, a comic book artist and High School teacher from the Bay Area, ...

A "conference committee" is a parliamentary device to reconcile differing versions of legislation passed by both houses of the Legislature, but in California's Capitol is rarely used except to produce a final legislative version of the state budget....

 I am Brian McKinsey, aka: Papa B.  My 5 grand kids call me Papa B so I just kept on keeping on with that name ...

A few minutes ago, I was lying in bed, wide awake, listening to the rain patter on my roof, while my wife slept soundly beside me.  I lay there wondering to myself why I did not post some sort of Memorial Day tribute on my blog.  I know my bl...