Education Headlines

• At disputed Kentfield school, students acquire skills for life

  The students, who come from around Marin County, have cerebral palsy, autism or developmental delays. A staff of three teachers and a slew of volunteers teach fundamental skills the students will need to get by on their own.

  July 22, 2014

• Long Beach teachers develop new science curriculum to meet nation’s new content standards

  Two Long Beach teachers have developed a curriculum for secondary science classrooms that joins together the new national content standards for language arts and science.

  July 22, 2014

• Norwalk-La Mirada school board votes to place $375 million bond issue on ballot

  The Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District Board of Education Monday on a 6-0 vote agreed to place a $375 million bond issue on the Nov. 4 election.

  July 22, 2014

• Rialto Unified: District pays $33k for disparaging former superintendent

  When former Rialto Unified Superintendent Harold Cebrun agreed he would leave his job at the end of March, he and the school board agreed: Neither would say a disparaging word about the other. Three months later, the district has paid out more than $30,000 for violating that non-disparagement clause.

  July 22, 2014

• Fensterwald: Initiatives you won’t see on November ballot

  Earlier this year, the secretary of state’s office gave sponsors of six proposed education-related ballot measures the go-ahead to collect the 505,000 signatures each needed to appear on the November ballot. None qualified.

  July 22, 2014

• EdSource: Six California districts join Obama’s initiative

  Six California school districts are among 60 in the nation that are joining President Barack Obama’s initiative, “My Brother’s Keeper,” which supports African-American and Latino boys, beginning in preschool.

  July 22, 2014