San Francisco Unified School District will once again lean on teachers in order to trim expenses as it faces another year of probable state budget cuts. Read More

Twelve Connecticut teachers involved in a test-tampering scandal are being allowed back in the classroom after losing 20 days’ pay and agreeing to serve 25 hours of community service by tutoring students after school. State education officials determined that the cheating effort was led by Hopeville Elementary School’s principal and reading teacher. The principal is fighting dismissal, and the reading teacher resigned. Read More

The San Francisco Unified School District’s improved budget outlook is giving officials the opportunity to retain 110 laid-off employees, but it’s insufficient to employ 39 other certified workers who lost their jobs.Fearing the worst, the school district prepared for a $27 million deficit earlier this year by issuing 300 teachers, aides and administrators their walking papers. But the governor’s revised May budget was kinder than expected to K-12 education. Read More

Educators and students are continuing to rally across the Bay Area and state Friday to honor teachers and protest looming budget cuts to education.The rallies, including one Friday afternoon in San Francisco, are part of a weeklong “state of emergency” declared by the California Teachers Association, which represents about 325,000 educators, librarians, social workers, and support staff in the state’s K-12 schools. Read More