The vast majority of San Francisco public schools may be in trouble this year unless California gets a waiver from a controversial federal law that requires sanctions for schools that don’t meet test-score targets.Last week, California schools chief Tom Torlakson pleaded with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to spare California from No Child Left Behind, the 2002 law that set up a nationwide system of standardized testing.
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When students stay in school, they receive an education. But their school district also receives more money from the state.
It’s no surprise, then, that San Francisco Unified School District officials are making a special effort to employ the people who help keep attendance up.
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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.
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The school district will take all the help they can get. Members of the San Francisco Unified School District’s Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution this week that encourages lawmakers in Sacramento to hold a special election in June.
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The San Francisco Unified School District could face a budget deficit as large as $20 million next school year if the tax package extensions proposed by the governor are not approved by voters in June. Myong Leigh, the deputy superintendent of policy and operations at the district, gave a brief budgetary outline to the San Francisco Board of Education on Tuesday night in order to prepare the governing body for the potential cuts.
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