Charter school finally gets real campus
San Jose Mercury News

12/5/05 -- In its humble beginnings more than five years ago, Downtown College Prep split its home between rented rooms in a downtown San Jose church and a YWCA building six blocks away. Then it moved to a former fitness center, where at least all of its students could learn under one roof.

Teachers still key to improving schools
San Francisco Chronicle
11/21/05 -- As the Nov. 8 special election bears out, California's education-interest groups have demonstrated once again their support for the status quo in the state's dysfunctional system.

California students are still struggling Los Angeles Times
10/20/05 -- Despite slight gains in math scores, California fourth- and eighth-grade students rank among the lowest nationally in mathematics and reading, test results released Wednesday showed.

State's kids rate low on reading test San Francisco Chronicle
10/20/05 -- California has been unable to raise students' reading scores from near the bottom nationally despite a decade of trying, including overhauling the way children are taught to read. California has been unable to raise students' reading scores from near the bottom nationally despite a decade of trying, including overhauling the way children are taught to read.

New bill illuminates disparities in teacher salaries Voice of San Diego
10/6/05 -- It seemed like a good idea at the time. Make sure California's public schools issue annual School Accountability Report Cards that disclose vital information specific to each school so parents can evaluate that school's quality and performance.

Op-Ed: Randolph Ward unsung hero Inside Bay Area
9/26/05 -- A recent report from Education Trust West, "The Hidden Gap," reveals an astonishing source of inequality in our public schools: School accounting practices routinely allow money for salaries to be diverted away from the schools that need resources the most. This detailed study also acknowledges Oakland Unified as a center of progressive upheaval against this structural inequality.

Opinion: Ballot measures on education are not enough Oakland Tribune
9/25/05 -- California hardly needed another reminder that its least experienced teachers are nested in the schools serving the neediest children — the schools with the highest proportions of poor and minority students — and that the most experienced and highest paid are concentrated in the schools serving the most affluent.

Op-Ed: Teachers must relinquish control of assignments Oakland Tribune & Inside Bay Area
9/25/05 -- If public school administrators, districts and teachers are really "for the kids" — as they contend — they should do what's best for California children most in need of a helping hand to compete and succeed.

Forum to examine achievement gap Sacramento Bee
9/24/05 -- In the Sacramento City Unified School District, Latino students constitute the largest ethnic group at 30 percent. African American students are the second largest ethnic group at 22 percent.

Writer to speak on education gap Contra Costa Times
9/23/05 -- Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol is no closet revolutionary. This sneaker-clad, Harvard-educated, Rhodes scholar is absolutely blunt. The United States has quietly returned to apartheid schooling, he says, and it will take open revolt -- an epic new civil rights movement -- to correct the course.

Opinion: School "reform' in state: More nibbling at the edges Sacramento Bee & Ventura County Star
9/21/05 -- California hardly needed another reminder that its least experienced teachers are nested in the schools serving the neediest children - the schools with the highest proportions of poor and minority students - and that the most experienced and highest paid are concentrated in the schools serving the most affluent.

More schools failing under U.S. law Sacramento Bee
9/21/05 -- More California schools are now facing the consequences imposed by the federal No Child Left Behind education law.

More schools facing sanctions under federal law Herald Tribune, North County Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, San Mateo Daily Journal 
9/21/05 -- More California schools are getting failing grades and facing federal sanctions, according to the California Department of Education.
 

Editorial: Teacher Pay Gap Sacramento Bee
9/21/05 -- It's long been known that teachers with little experience or emergency credentials tended to work in schools populated by high-risk students from low-income families. Now a new study documents the serious teacher pay gap that exists between rich and poor schools even within the same districts.

Opinion: Fill the need Fresno Bee
9/20/05 -- What could be more disturbing than to be told that the most inexperienced and lowest-paid teachers are sent to schools in Fresno with the most poor and minority students?

Op-Ed: Salary solutions Press Enterprise
9/20/05 -- California should be pouring more resources into struggling schools, but the reality is just the opposite: Districts tend to spend more money on high-performing institutions, which get the most experienced and qualified teachers.

Opinion: Good teachers for minority students Daily Pilot
9/20/05 --This week we asked our parent panelists: Last week a report showed that a poor or minority student in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District is more likely to get taught by a highly trained and credentialed teacher than students in other districts. What do you attribute that finding to?

Level teaching field in Newport-Mesa district Daily Pilot 
9/20/05 -- A statewide study by the Education Trust-West, an Oakland research group, revealed this week that the Newport-Mesa Unified School District provides more prestigious teachers to its needy students than the average California district. The report, released Wednesday, posted estimated average teacher salaries for every school site in California.

37 school forced to make changes. Improving or not, they failed to make U.S. goals San Francisco Chronicle
9/20/05 -- Thirty-seven Bay Area schools have missed federal test-score quotas seven years in a row, making them the first in the region to undergo forced restructuring under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The rich-poor divide in teacher pay San Jose Mercury News
9/16/05 -- School boards and legislators serious about fair distribution of funding to poor as well as rich schools and school districts face a big barrier: 80 percent of a district's budget is in teachers' pay, and a rigid salary schedule will tie reformers' hands.

Teachers of poor kids earn less San Mateo Daily Journal
9/15/05 -- Teachers whose students are poor and members of racial minorities are generally less experienced and earn less money than their counterparts at more affluent schools, even within the same districts, according to a report released Wednesday by a nonpartisan research group.

Report: Better teachers in high-income districts KPIX-TV
9/15/05 -- Outgoing San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Arlene Ackerman said she supports findings in reports released Wednesday showing that schools in higher-income neighborhoods have the most experienced teachers.

The California High School Exit Exam will benefit students of color, commentator says New California Media
9/15/05 -- Russlynn Ali, Executive Director of EdTrust West, a non-profit education research and advocacy organization based in Oakland that supports the California High School Exit Exam, spoke with PNS education writers Daffodil Altan and Carolyn Goossen.

How will the High School Exit Exam affect English Learners? Pacific News Service
9/15/05 -- When the results for this year's California High School Exit Exam came out, an online Chinese language newspaper assured its new immigrant readers that as long as their child was doing okay in English class, they would not have any problem passing the Exit Exam. But some students who are learning English tell a different story.

Report: Poor and minority teachers earn less than counterparts at more affluent schools Sacramento Bee & Modesto Bee
9/14/05 -- Teachers whose students are poor and members of racial minorities are generally less experienced and earn less money than their counterparts at more affluent schools, even within the same districts, according to a report released Wednesday by a nonpartisan research group.

Report: Neediest schools often have lowest paid teachers Daily Breeze
9/15/05 -- School districts across California, including Los Angeles Unified and others in the South Bay, often spend significantly more money on teachers at their more affluent schools than at their higher-poverty, higher-minority schools, according to a school-level study of teacher salaries released Wednesday.

A-list teachers avoid poor kids Daily News
9/15/05 -- Los Angeles Unified's most-experienced teachers work predominantly in schools serving high-income white students, at the expense of Latino and African-American students living in poorer neighborhoods, a report released Wednesday says.

Historia de los escuelas La Opinion
9/15/05-- Un nuevo estudio confirma que los maestros menos preparados y peor pagados se encuentran en las escuelas ubicadas en áreas de bajos recursos, donde la gran mayoría de los estudiantes son de origen latino, afroamericano u otras minorías.

Poor schools get less money for teachers, report says The Daily Review

9/15/05 -- Black and Latino children fill nearly all the seats at Oakland's Lockwood Elementary, where 93 percent of students are poor.

Level teaching field Daily Pilot
9/15/05 -- A poor or minority student in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District has an unusually good chance of working under a highly credentialed teacher, according to a statewide report released Wednesday.

Disparity found by area in teachers' credentials Contra Costa Times
9/15/05 -- Teachers whose students are poor and members of racial minorities are generally less experienced and earn less money than their counterparts at more affluent schools, even within the same districts, according to a report released Wednesday by a nonpartisan research group.

Poor kids get lesser teachers Orange County Register
9/15/05 -- Teachers whose students are poor and members of racial minorities are generally less experienced and earn less money than their counterparts at more affluent schools, even within the same districts, according to a report released Wednesday by the nonpartisan advocacy group Education Trust-West.

Report: Poor and minority teachers earn less than counterparts at more affluent schools Fresno Bee
9/15/05 -- Teachers whose students are poor and members of racial minorities are generally less experienced and earn less money than their counterparts at more affluent schools, even within the same districts, according to a report released Wednesday by a nonpartisan research group.

Report: Poor schools get less money for teachers Oakland Tribune & Alameda Times Star
9/15/05 -- African-American and Latino children fill nearly all the seats at Oakland's Lockwood Elementary, where 93 percent of students are poor. African-American and Latino children fill nearly all the seats at Oakland's Lockwood Elementary, where 93 percent of students are poor.

Report: Minority students "shortchanged" KNTV-TV
9/15/05 -- A new series of reports documenting budget discrepancies within California school districts suggests that schools in higher-income neighborhoods have the most experienced teachers.

Data detect teacher-spending gap Pasadena Star News
9/15/05 -- A series of reports released Wednesday examines hidden teacher- spending gaps in schools across the state, using a Web-based tool to detail how most districts spend less on teachers in high- poverty, high-minority schools.

Report: Poor get greenest teachers San Jose Mercury News
9/15/05 -- It's not a secret: Schools in affluent neighborhoods are often filled with experienced teachers, while schools serving overwhelmingly low-income, Latino and African-American students tend to be staffed by young teachers just beginning their careers.

Study: Pay lower at poorer schools San Francisco Examiner
9/15/05 -- Teachers at some San Francisco public schools with low-income, heavily African-American and Latino student populations earn thousands of dollars a year less than their counterparts at schools serving more affluent white and Asian students, a report has found.

Report explains why teacher pay is unfair San Francisco Chronicle
9/15/05 -- Teachers working at San Francisco high schools serving mostly African American and Latino students will, on average, make $8,355 less per year than their more experienced counterparts at mostly white and Asian American high schools across town.

Report bares funding gap at 2 city schools San Diego Union-Tribune

9/15/05 -- The junior high school in La Jolla with impressive test scores gets an estimated $739,000 more each year for teacher salaries than does the City Heights middle school with lower marks on state exams.

Report: Poor and minority teachers earn less than counterparts at more affluent schools Merced Sun-Star

9/15/05 -- Teachers whose students are poor and members of racial minorities are generally less experienced and earn less money than their counterparts at more affluent schools, even within the same districts, according to a report released Wednesday by a nonpartisan research group.

Minority pupils said shortchanged Los Angeles Times
9/15/05 -- In California's largest school districts, teachers who work in schools with predominantly poor and minority students aren't paid as much as their counterparts at more affluent campuses within the same district, according to a report by an education advocacy group released Wednesday.

Editorial: Account for school funding Los Angeles Times
9/15/05 -- California teachers can preen a little over the latest standardized test scores, which moved solidly upward in most grades and subjects. But the state and many school districts have less to brag about because poor and minority students, though their scores improved, aren't catching up to the rest. In some cases, they're lagging more than they were last year.

Report: Teachers in poor schools less-experienced than in aflfuent schools North County Times
9/15/05 -- Teachers whose students are poor and members of racial minorities are generally less experienced and earn less money than their counterparts at more affluent schools, even within the same districts, according to a report released Wednesday by a nonpartisan research group.

Report: Poor and Minority teachers earn less than counterparts at more affluent schools Press Enterprise
9/14/05 -- Teachers whose students are poor and members of racial minorities are generally less experienced and earn less money than their counterparts at more affluent schools, even within the same districts, according to a report released Wednesday by a nonpartisan research group.

Report: Teachers of poor and minority earn less than those at affluent schools KESQ-TV
9/14/05 -- A report released today shows that teachers whose students are poor and members of racial minorities are generally less experienced and earn less money than their counterparts at more affluent schools.

Report: Poor and minority teachers earn less than counterparts at more affluent schools Herald Tribune
9/14/05 -- Teachers whose students are poor and members of racial minorities are generally less experienced and earn less money than their counterparts at more affluent schools, even within the same districts, according to a report released Wednesday by a nonpartisan research group.

Schools doing better - or not? Sacramento Bee
9/1/05 -- Are California's public schools showing promising improvement or worrisome stagnation? It depends on who you ask.

Test scores mixed for county schools San Diego Union Tribune
9/1/05 -- More San Diego County schools reached state academic goals this year, while a greater number fell short of federal benchmarks, even though both reports are based on largely the same test scores.

Special-ed students may get reprieve on exit exam Sacramento Bee
8/27/05 -- High school seniors with disabilities may be able to graduate without passing the California High School Exit Exam.
 

Kick-starting our kids in Kindergarten Inland Valley Daily Bulleting
8/22/05 -- Whether it's counting orange frogs or watching a spider "puppet show," students are learning in Jasmine Saunders' class, but she doesn't want them to know it.

Schools  struggling with proficiency goals Pasadena Star News
8/21/05 -- Schools across the state are making little headway in closing the achievement gap, according to standardized test scores released last week by the state Department of Education.

Editorial: Scores rise, but most pupils lag San Francisco Chronicle
8/17/05 -- Student test scores released this week are being embraced as proof that California's ambitious school reform efforts are paying off.

State's students do better on math and English tests; The challenge: Most remain below their grade level San Francisco Chronicle
8/16/05 -- More public school students scored at grade level or above this year in English and math than at any time in the five-year history of the comprehensive California Standards Test, according to new results from the state Department of Education.

Scores for all state students make modest gains, but troubling gap persists San Jose Mercury News
8/16/05 -- California students scored steady if unspectacular gains this year on state achievement tests, according to scores released Monday.

Several districts in region lag behind average on high school exit exam Sacramento Bee
8/16/05 -- Directing traffic at a California State Fair parking lot this week is one very worried teenager. "I'm very, very nervous because I don't think I'm going to pass the high school exit exam," said Juan Calderon, an incoming senior at Hiram Johnson High School. "I'm scared I might not walk the stage like I want to."

Students make some gains Sacramento Bee
8/16/05 -- After stalling last year, test scores for California's public school students are on the rise again, according to results released Monday by the California Department of Education.

Students gain, but still lag Los Angeles Times
8/16/05 -- Although California public school students showed promising gains on math and English tests last spring, less than half were proficient in the two subjects and unable to meet the achievement goals set by the federal No Child Left Behind education law, the state Education Department reported Monday.

On state tests for students, good is not yet good enough Oakland Tribune

8/16/05 -- State test scores are going in the right direction, but at the current rate of improvement, the destination is still 30 years off, according to California Standardized Test results released Monday.

Riverside County English and math scores rise slightly The Press-Enterprise
8/16/05 -- Students are achieving higher standardized test scores across the state and in Riverside County, scoring advances over last year's stagnant results.

Bay area standardized test scores on the rise CBS 5 news
8/15/05 -- Several school districts from across the Bay Area were celebrating the results of state test scores this week. Students improved scores statewide in all subjects and in all grades.

Schools ponder expanding grad requirements Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
7/4/05 -- A Northern California school district's success in requiring all students to complete college-prep courses has San Bernardino County education officials considering a similar policy..

Aprueban reforma en LAUSD La Opinion
6/15/05 --La Junta Directiva del Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los Ángeles (LAUSD) aprobó ayer por votación de 6-1 una profunda reforma en el currículum que se imparte en todas sus escuelas secundarias con el propósito de adecuarlo a los requerimientos de los sistemas de educación universitaria y del exigente mercado laboral del siglo XXI. 

Acusan al LAUSD de preparar obreros y soldados La Opinion
6/1/05 -- Un reporte de The Education Trust-West de Oakland asegura que el Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los Ángeles (LAUSD) prepara generaciones de estudiantes obreros y personas para la milicia y no para acudir al colegio o la universidad.

Exigen reformas educativas en el LAUSD La Opinion

5/25/05 -- A pesar de la resistencia de algunos miembros de la Junta Directiva del Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los Ángeles (LAUSD), centenares de padres de familia, estudiantes y activistas reclamaron durante una marcha de protesta la aprobación de una resolución que brindaría igual acceso para todos los alumnos a los requisitos del plan A-G para acceder a los sistemas estatales de educación superior. 
 

Op-Ed: College-bound or not, kids need tough classes L.A. Daily News
5/24/05 -- Today, the Los Angeles Unified School District will consider adopting the so-called "A-G" or college-prep curriculum for all high school students. It may seem counterintuitive, given recent reports of the LAUSD's high dropout rates, to have every student take on an extra year of math and two years of a foreign language, as required by the University of California and California State University systems. But it's actually common sense, and it's the right thing to do.

Op-Ed: Defining ailure, 'No Child' a better gauge Press Enterprise
5/21/05 -- No Child Left Behind isn't perfect. No law ever is. But the notion that California's Academic Performance Index is a superior measure of school performance is just plain wrong.

Rally seeks more for Cabrillo Press-Telegram
5/18/05 -- Students and parents Wednesday pleaded for the school district to provide more textbooks, learning materials and experienced teachers at Cabrillo High during a community forum in West Long Beach.

Schwarzenegger's inner-city 'combat pay' plan draws fire mtv.com
5/3/05 -- Continuing to apply the action-hero imagery of his movie career to his gubernatorial position, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is responding to California's mediocre scholastic-test scores and growing high school dropout rate with a controversial new plan that includes offering teachers so-called 'combat pay' to work in the state's toughest schools.

Editorial - Combat pay in school wars San Francisco Chronicle
4/27/05 -- Paying veteran teachers extra to work in the toughest schools has instant appeal. Send in the best where they're needed most. Reward experience with a bigger paycheck.

Senator wants teacher salaries on report card Contra Costa Times
4/24/05 -- Parents who want to know just how much their children's schools are spending on teachers may soon have a way to find out.

Governor names new committee to study overhaul of public education Education Beat
4/22/05 -- A new committee appointed in early April by Gov. Schwarzenegger to study ways to revamp public education will conduct a "disciplined and rigorous study" of the state’s public education system before making any recommendations, the group’s chairman says.

Law would expose teacher pay San Mateo Daily Journal
4/21/05 -- A state senator has opened an uncomfortable conversation with some teachers about their salaries.

State Senator Joe Simitian says education bill helps parents Santa Cruz Sentinel
4/21/05 -- A bill that would require individual schools to tell parents how much money they spend on teacher salaries moved one step closer to reality Wednesday.

Op-Ed: Send best teachers to struggling schools San Francisco Examiner
4/19/05 -- Palo Alto state Sen. Joe Simitian has introduced a bill that would require California school districts to report average teacher salaries at individual schools rather than as an aggregate of all campuses within the district.

Op-Ed: "Fog of averages' blurs school funding San Jose Mercury News
4/19/05 -- Disparities in funding among different schools within a single district can be as wide as the gulf between the state's rich and poor districts.

Bill requires data on teachers San Jose Mercury News
4/19/05 -- Parents who want to know just how much their children's schools are spending on teachers may soon have a way to find out.

Report shows wide salary gap with teachers Ventury County Star
4/19/05 -- Teachers at Ventura County schools with more poor and minority students have average salaries as much as $9,000 less than others, according to a report by an education advocacy organization.

Bill would make districts report teacher salaries San Francisco Examiner
4/18/05 -- A new bill that would require districts to report average teacher salaries at each school has been introduced after it was reported that campuses with large minority populations often pay less than those with fewer minorities - even within the same district.

Bill seeks disclosure on school spending Whitteir Daily News
4/18/05 -- Local education leaders say they're on the fence about a proposed Senate bill that would require school districts to annually disclose how much they spend on teacher salaries and students at each individual school.

Ward's policies get state forum Locals to reform state schools The Oalkand Tribune
4/14/05 -- Randolph Ward's bold and often controversial reforms of Oakland schools may get a statewide platform following his appointment this month to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new education committee.

Members of Governor's Advisory Committee on Education Excellence San Jose Mercury News
4/12/05 -- Members include: Ted Mitchell, Occidental College president, who will lead the committee.

Education Advisory Panel Named San Jose Mercury News
4/12/05 --  Several area community leaders have been named to a new group that will advise state schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell on ways to coordinate and improve education from preschool through college.

Districts find wiggle room in education law Sacramento Bee
4/10/05 -- Critics of the No Child Left Behind Act object to the 2002 federal education law for many reasons. They say it is not adequately funded, that it sets unrealistic targets for student achievement, that it calls teachers who have won statewide awards unqualified.

Governor unveils 15 picks for new schools panel Los Angeles Times
4/9/05 -- Even as he forges ahead with some of his own controversial education initiatives, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday named a 15-member committee to study ways to overhaul the state's public school system.

Governor forms bipartisan committee on education Contra Costa Times
4/9/05 -- Even as he pushes ballot measures that would bring drastic change to public schools, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Friday appointments to a new bipartisan committee to advise him on improving education.

Closing the achievement gap Los Angeles City Beat
4/7/05 -- Takoura Smith has been a National Honor Society scholar two years in a row, but the Washington Preparatory School student still came close to missing the path to higher education.

Public school failures raises questions of political leadership San Francisco Chronicle
4/4/05 -- California's public schools, once among the best in the nation, now lag behind almost every other state in student achievement, funding, teacher quality and facilities.

High schools 'dropout factories' The Monterey County Herald
4/4/05 -- California's public schools, once among the best in the nation, now lag behind almost every other state in student achievement, funding, teacher quality and facilities.

Merit should trump seniority in teacher pay San Diego Union Tribune
3/28/05 -- The common-sense idea of merit pay for public schoolteachers pits Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger against one of the most hidebound – and politically muscular – lobbies in Sacramento, the California Teachers Association. Even more important, the clash juxtaposes the self-interests of unionized teachers against the needs of students.

Editorial: L.A. Schools' Silent Scandal L.A. Times
3/25/05 -- It took a study last month by the Education Trust-West, a policy and advocacy group for disadvantaged students, to show conclusively that, even within the same districts, California schools spend less money on poor and minority students. Now, a Harvard report reveals that dropout rates among black and Latino students in California are substantially higher than the state has been reporting. What else don't we know about our schools?

California Department of Education Releases Data Corrections CDE Web site
3/11/05 -- CDE has also addressed a separate data issue related to the CalWORKS/Free or Reduced Price Meal data file, which was updated on February 1, 2005. The current data file includes corrections to errors identified in the previous version.

Op-Ed: Let's judge teachers on merit basis LA Daily News
3/8/05 -- Imagine you are working at a company where you are responsible for 20 to 30 individuals. They are expected to learn and master new material each year. You work extra hours, come up with innovative strategies where the individuals you are charged with not only master the material, but excel beyond what they are expected to learn.

Striving to make public education equitable Inside Bay Area/The Argus
3/1/05 -- California public schools in wealthier communities and neighborhoods keep getting richer while students attending poorer, mostly minority schools keep falling farther behind.

Report Unmasks Inequities in Teacher Salaries California Education News
2/28/05 -- The Los Angeles and Oakland school districts are taking steps to pay more to teachers assigned to schools with high numbers of poor and minority students, but these districts are the exception rather than the rule, an Education Trust- West report finds.

California School Districts Shortchange Students of Color San Francisco Bayview
2/28/05 -- A new report released Tuesday by the Education Trust-West identifies for the first time huge per-pupil spending gaps in California public schools currently masked by the state’s accounting methods. The report finds that money spent on teacher salaries, which make up the lion’s share of education dollars, varies widely from school to school within districts.

Letter to the Editor: The Teacher Pay Gap San Jose Mercury News
2/24/05 -- In your thoughtful Feb. 17 editorial about our recent report on gaps in teacher salaries, you write that there is no direct correlation between how many years a teacher has been in the classroom and effectiveness.

Educators: Minority students deprived

Sacramento Bee/HispanicBusiness.com

2/24/05 -- As No Child Left Behind pushes test scores to the fore of schools' consciousness, educators and policy-makers are increasingly focused on the achievement gap between African American and Latino students and their white and Asian peers.

Editorial: Get serious about pay, Sacramento Bee
2/22/05 -- Though they have bandied many words about, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and education leaders have failed to address the two most pressing issues surrounding teacher pay.

Teacher salaries, assignments at core of state's problems with schools Fresno Bee
2/21/05 -- Though they have bandied many words about, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and education leaders have failed to address the two most pressing issues surrounding teacher pay.

Study: Teachers at needy schools earn less, San Diego Union-Tribune
2/20/05 -- While educators have long struggled to close the achievement gap between some minority and white students, the lesser-known chasm in teacher salaries and experience is shortchanging the neediest children in San Diego and statewide, a study released last week shows.

 
District Discord, Riverside Press-Enterprise
2/19/05 -- If California wants to improve its poorest-performing schools, it should send a greater share of resources their way. Instead, a study released this week found that struggling schools get less help than their thriving counterparts.

District must get its experienced teachers into the neediest schools, Fresno Bee
2/17/05 -- A study of teacher salaries in California shows that higher-paid teachers — those with the most experience — generally are assigned to high-performing schools in the state's more affluent neighborhoods.

Editorial: Get Flexible to Attract Veterans to Poor Campuses, San Jose Mercury News
2/17/05 -- Inflexible teachers' contracts contribute to inequality between schools serving rich and poor kids in California.