STAR Tests On the Way Out… With the passage of AB 484 in June, the state legislature will start phasing out California’s Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) system in the coming school year. “This is an effort from the legislature to streamline testing and get us positioned for Common...
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Nit-Picking Over CBSA Conference Costs Last week’s Santa Clara Unified School Board meeting illustrated Parkinson’s Law of Committees: The amount of time...
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New Common Core Standards On the Horizon Like it or not, the new Common Core (www.commoncore.org) education standards are being adopted across...
College and Mission City Grow Up Together It was 1851. The original 49er’s Gold Fever was peaking and, in 1850, California had...
While Michele Ryan was complaining to the Anti-Defamation League last week about Santa Clara High School senior Sami Elamad calling board meetings...
Superintendent Bobbie Plough is a happy mother awaiting her son’s upcoming wedding at the end of June. To get ready for the...
At a marathon seven-hour, standing room only SCUSD board meeting on June 13, indignation continued about the resignations of some 20 school...
New Principals Announced Three new principals were appointed at the May 30 special meeting of the Santa Clara Unified School Board: Michael...
Micromanagement 101 “A regular criticism of local boards is the tendency of board members to confuse monitoring of key outcomes and...
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At his first job, Chef Daniel Arias cleaned bathrooms inside a restaurant. After that, he worked at a hotel where he started...