Education
Analyst pegs revenue $3.2B higher than Gov. Brown
The state's independent budget analyst said Friday that California will take in $3.2 billion more in tax revenue than Gov. Jerry Brown estimated, providing Democratic lawmakers an argument to funnel more money into state programs and setting up a spending showdown with the administration. The Legislative Analyst's Office released its ...
ECSU head resigns amid probes of campus crimes
Elizabeth City State University's top administrator resigned Friday as investigators looked into the school's failure to report campus crimes as federal law requires and into alleged witness intimidation by the university's police department. Chancellor Willie Gilchrist said his resignation after seven years as head of the public university precedes his ...
Lawyer: Assault on Brown athlete was self-defense
A Connecticut Marine accused in an assault that left a Brown University basketball player with severe head injuries acted in self-defense, his attorney said Friday. Tory Lussier, 24, of Vernon, Conn., made his initial appearance in Providence District Court on Friday on a felony assault charge. He was released on ...
School locked down while fire crews fight flames
Firefighters worked swiftly to steer a 40-acre brushfire away from an elementary school moments before school was set to let out for the day. Los Angeles County firefighters say the blaze is burning in light brush off Interstate 5 north of Lake Hughes Road in Castaic. It was reported just ...
Calif. Gov. Brown defends education spending in LA
Gov. Jerry Brown traveled to a lower-income Hispanic neighborhood Friday to defend his proposal to shift some education spending to the state's neediest children. Brown told reporters gathered at an elementary school in an unincorporated area east of Los Angeles that his plan would give California the "biggest bang for ...
Mass. US Senate hopefuls spar over gun control ad
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Gabriel Gomez defended his stance on gun control Friday and lashed out at Democratic nominee and veteran Congressman Edward Markey for alluding to the Connecticut school massacre in a TV campaign ad that criticized Gomez on the gun issue. The Markey ad uses excerpts of Gomez ...
Proposed school would advance language study
Students in language immersion programs at public charter elementary schools may have a chance to continue their studies if a proposed middle and high school becomes reality. Currently students at five schools can take part in language immersion programs in French, Spanish or Chinese. The proposed District of Columbia International ...
Patrick restores some funds cut from Mass. budget
Citing improved tax collections, Gov. Deval Patrick's administration on Friday restored nearly $21 million in budget cuts, the bulk of which will go to local school districts. The funds that were restored amount to less than 10 percent of the $225 million in spending reductions that the governor ordered in ...
Money panels close major K-12 budgets
Legislative money committees Friday endorsed major components of Gov. Brian Sandoval's funding plan for public schools, setting a benchmark of $2.8 billion in general fund support for the upcoming two years. The actions by the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means committees largely follow what the first-term Republican recommended ...
Michelle Obama speaks of 'hunger' for education
First lady Michelle Obama spoke passionately about the importance of education to the African-American community in a commencement address Friday, urging more than 600 graduates of Bowie State University to honor the school's history and to pass their commitment to education on to future generations. In her 15-minute address, the ...
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