San Diego Union Tribune
April 18, 2009
Nearly $4 Released to the State
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/18/1n18stimulus224230-nearly-4-billion-released-state/
Education Secretary Arne Duncan yesterday released nearly $4 billion to California, the first state to benefit from a special fund for states that was created by the economic stimulus law.
San Diego Union Tribune
April 18, 2009
Charters still the Stepchild Among California's Public Schools
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/18/mz1cz18edtop203628-charters-still-stepchild-among-/
Proudly, the California Department of Education announced this week the distribution of $23.5 million to 196 charter schools in the state as reimbursement for rent they must pay.
San Diego Union Tribune
April 18, 2009
560 Teachers are Still Needed to Retire Early
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/18/1cz18retire213153-560-teachers-still-are-needed-re/
So far, just 73 teachers have put in for early retirement from the San Diego Unified School District – barely more than 10 percent needed to make a delicate budget-cutting plan work.
Voice of San Diego
April 22, 2009
Stressful Stereotypes Found to Undercut Girls and Minorities
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2009/04/22/education/829testing042209.txt
Nervousness overcame Carlos Genchis, 18, as he sat down to fill in the bubbles the second time he took the high school exit exam.
San Diego Union Tribune
April 21, 2009
San Diego Schools Selling 1st U.S. Tax Credit Debt
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/21/6271111247schools-tax-credit-debt/
The San Diego school system started taking bids Tuesday on the nation's first sale of bonds that will offer investors a tax credit but pay no interest, one of its financial advisers said.
San Diego Union Tribune
April 22, 2009
Popular teaching tool could be curtailed, cut
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/22/1m22ocile231914-popular-teaching-tool-could-be-cur/
When David Alvarez and his classmates from Cherokee Point Elementary School spent a recent week in Balboa Park, they hit all of the hot spots: museums, zoo and a play.
San Diego Union Tribune
April 22, 2009
School Bonds to Finance High Tech Renovations
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/22/1m22bonds231911-school-bonds-finance-high-tech-ren/?education&zIndex=86372
San Diego schools stand to get wireless Internet and other technology upgrades called for in the $2.1 billion Proposition S bond measure at a quicker pace than expected, thanks to interest-free federal construction bonds.
Voice of San Diego
April 22, 2009
$43 M In School Stimulus Money
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2009/04/21/education/schooled/892stimulus042109.txt
San Diego Unified estimates it will get roughly $43 million in stabilization money from the federal stimulus bill.
