Education Headlines

• EdSource: California finally to move ahead with ‘cradle to career’ data system

  With $10 million in funding, an ambitious timeline and a champion in Gov. Gavin Newsom behind it, the Legislature is poised this week to pass legislation for a statewide education data system that will follow children from infancy through the workplace.

  June 25, 2019

• Oakland: Ex-American Indian Public Charter School director gets probation in grant fraud case

  In a plea deal with prosecutors, an author and former Oakland charter school director was sentenced to one year of federal probation for a charge of falsifying grant applications for his school.

  June 25, 2019

• Oakland schools whistle-blower gets job back, but pursues complaint

  On Wednesday, they told Lili Ortiz she had her job back, acknowledging the district failed to tell her why she was placed on leave in the first place and why she remained there for months, according to her attorney, Judith Wolff.

  June 25, 2019

• LAUSD’s new $7.8 billion budget for next year impacts the district in many ways. Here are some examples

  L.A. Unified board members passed the 2019-20 budget and accountability plan last week — but not before acknowledging that they are “unintelligible” documents that provide little insight into specific program and funding changes as the district looks to the next school year.

  June 25, 2019

• Sausalito Marin City schools name new superintendent

  District trustees voted 4-1 Thursday to approve a three-year contract for Itoco Garcia, 44, a 1992 graduate of Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley. He will earn a base salary of $190,000 for 2019-20.

  June 24, 2019

• Desert Sands to invest more in foster children, launch bilingual ed.

  Desert Sands Unified School District’s board of education will vote on its proposed Local Control Accountability Plan, an exhaustive, state-mandated document that lays out the district’s spending blueprint for the 2019-2020 school year.

  June 24, 2019