News of particular interest to teachers.
The UC Davis C-STEM Center has announced today that all of the six courses it submitted to the University of California Office of the President for A-G approval have been approved. This year, C-STEM will support six high school courses with A-G approval and four middle school courses. High school courses developed by the C-STEM
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California educational leaders in both the legislative and executive branches of State government have, over the past four years, held consistent views on how to best reform education and have taken unprecedented steps to support local schools to improve student outcomes. A new video and a new report give insights on the vision of two
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This week Governor Brown signed legislation that will encourage greater adoption of computer science instruction in California’s schools. Michael Kirst, President of the State Board of Education said: “We need to rethink whether we need to be more aggressive in our approach.” (Los Angeles Times) Special thanks to Julie Flapan and Debra Richardson of ACCESS for their
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This past budget cycle, the California legislature ended the practice of direct-funding for Regional Occupation Center and Programs (ROCP) to fully implement the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). This is the last year that funds from the direct-funding process will be available to ROCPs. While the funding stream has changed, the legal authority to operate
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