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May 20th, 2013
California has decided not to try again for a waiver from some key provisions of No Child Left Behind, at least not for the next school year …
May 20th, 2013
Gov. Jerry Brown's call to create regional consortia of school districts and community colleges to administer adult education programs starting in 2015-16 is meeting resistance from education leaders in the Assembly …
May 15th, 2013
Los Angeles Unified is the first district in the state to stop suspending students for "willful defiance" – a subjective category that accounts for 54 percent of suspensions and a quarter of all expulsions across the state …
May 13th, 2013
Kindergarten "redshirting," when parents keep a child eligible to start kindergarten out of school for an extra year, is not as prevalent as previously believed, a new study suggests …
May 7th, 2013
California Attorney General Kamala Harris launched a new focus on truancy as a statewide law enforcement issue with a letter that went to all of the state's county and district superintendents last week …
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