Education Headlines

• Moorpark’s Flory School still plans to start STEM lab despite stolen funds

  Administrators, teachers and parents have been planning a new lab space full of LEGOs at the Flory Academy of Sciences and Technology, and officials said it’s still on track despite an alleged theft of more than $100,000 in booster funds.

  April 22, 2019

• Sonora Union High School District: people tell board concerns about Wildcat Ranch

  More than 30 people came to a short-notice special meeting Thursday evening of the Sonora Union High School District Board of Trustees to sound off on their views of the board’s struggle with its litigation-embroiled attempted sale of 112 acres of the district’s Wildcat Ranch to the Park Foundation.

  April 22, 2019

• El Rancho Unified to fire 1 school administrator, reassign 5 others

  El Rancho Unified officials this week moved to fire one school-level administrator and reassign five others effective next school year — drawing ire from the community, according to school board member Carolyn Castillo.

  April 22, 2019

• Three San Diego schools will move to later start times for students’ sleep health

  La Jolla High School, Muirlands Middle School and the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts will switch to later start times to improve sleep health for students.

  April 22, 2019

• Teachers contract to cost cash-strapped Oakland Unified $36 million

  The contract agreement that ended Oakland’s seven-day teacher strike earlier this year will cost the cash-strapped district about $36 million through 2021. If it’s given the go-ahead by state and county oversight, that is.

  April 22, 2019

• EdSource: Teach for America targeted as legislation seeks to limit inexperienced teachers in California

  A California legislator wants to ban inexperienced teachers in programs such as Teach for America from working in predominantly low-income schools, saying they lack the preparation to work effectively with the neediest students.

  April 22, 2019