Dan Walters

By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A

Gov. Jerry Brown’s campaign to balance the state budget with new income and sales taxes took a double hit Monday.

Brown has been describing his temporary sales and income tax increases as necessary to protect schools and public safety. But a new report on school finance from the Legislature’s budget analyst, Mac Taylor, makes it clear that even were Brown’s taxes to be increased, his budget would continue to reduce California’s per-pupil spending. Virtually all of the school money in the package would just pay schools what the state already owes them.

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Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 02/03/2012 01:29:27 PM PST

CHINO – As tears were shed and pleas were made, Chino Valley Unified School District board members approved $19.6 million in budget reductions.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
January 31, 2012

Rural and urban school districts in California that make heavy use of buses appear safe — for now.

State lawmakers are fast-tracking legislation that would transform a $248 million midyear school bus cut into a general-purpose reduction that hits each K-12 district evenly. The Assembly Budget Committee passed Senate Bill 81 with bipartisan support Tuesday, while an aide to Gov. Jerry Brown testified that the governor supports the proposal.

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By Dale Kasler
dkasler@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 6B

CalSTRS is thinking of cutting its investment forecast for the second time in barely a year, a move that acknowledges the increased financial strain on the pension fund.

The teachers’ retirement board on Thursday will consider a recommendation from its actuarial consultant to cut the forecast by a quarter point, to 7.5 percent.

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Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 01/27/2012 09:31:09 AM PST

CHINO – The Chino Valley Unified School District has about two weeks to find $20 million to cut from its budget for next year.

That’s the bad news coming from last week’s Board of Education budget study session.

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Will Bigham, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Created: 01/26/2012 10:42:20 AM PST

A committee of the Cal State University Board of Trustees is set to begin the search for a new president at Cal State San Bernardino. President Albert Karnig is retiring at the end of the school year.

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Patrick Fite, For the Daily Facts
Posted: 01/26/2012 04:25:15 PM PST

Practicing simple energy efficient methods can add up to huge savings, as the Redlands Unified School District (RUSD) has shown during the past 26 months by saving more than $900,000 in energy costs.

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Agreement delays decisions on furlough days, benefits cuts
January 24, 2012 3:29 PM
Natasha Lindstrom, Staff Writer

VICTORVILLE • Three months after declaring an impasse, the Victor Valley Union High School District and its teachers union have struck a tentative agreement. (Click here to read the agreemment.)

But rather than resolve contentious compensation issues, the proposed deal essentially delays the hard decisions until negotiations resume in March for the 2012-13 school year.

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Dan Walters

By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A

The state budget contains hundreds of specific provisions but none is bigger, more complicated, more politicized, more emotional – or more important – than the 30 or so billion dollars that it spends on K-12 education.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
January 9, 2012

Civil rights attorney Molly Munger has contributed $500,000 toward her tax initiative to raise $10 billion annually for education, the first significant cash backing a measure that competes with Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax proposal, according to a campaign statement posted today.

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Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 01/08/2012 06:03:56 AM PST

At most it will be $100,000.

Or not even enough to cover one-half of one furlough day.

That’s the assessment from the Upland Unified School District of what last week’s state Supreme Court decision on redevelopment agencies might mean – in a best-case scenario.

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Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Sunday, January 8, 2012

Sacramento –Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget plan released last week poses a stark choice for Californians: approve a five-year $35 billion tax increase in November or watch the hatchet drop on public school funding – with cuts so deep the school year could be shortened by almost a month.

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In this April 4, 2011 file photo is Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Hesperia, in Sacramento. Donnelly, who previously sought the right to carry a loaded weapon inside the state Capitol has been cited for trying to bring a loaded handgun onto a Sacramento-bound flight. Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez says Donnelly had a Colt .45 with four rounds in it inside his carry-on luggage at Ontario International Airport. He says another magazine with five rounds also was in Donnelly’s carry-on bag. The lawmaker was passing through a security checkpoint at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday. (Associated Press file photo)

By Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Created: 01/06/2012 10:52:55 AM PST

Assemblyman Tim Donnelly said Friday the effort to repeal the California Dream Act had fallen short of gathering enough signatures needed to get on the ballot.

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By Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 01/04/2012 04:46:26 PM PST

CHINO – Another tough year is expected for Chino Valley Unified School District as officials anticipate cutting millions from its budget.

Come January, district officials said they will revisit a 33-item list of possible reductions presented to the school board two months ago by its superintendent – a list that includes elimination or cutbacks of nurses, elementary music programs, librarians and several assistant principals.

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By Ryan Hagen and Josh Dulaney, Staff writers
Posted: 01/03/2012 07:04:50 PM PST

SAN BERNARDINO – High-profile leaders of the city and school district have recently been replaced, and the new year is expected to bring more new faces and approaches.

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Garcia

By Jim Steinberg Staff Writer
Created: 01/02/2012 06:05:05 PM PST

FONTANA – School board member Leticia Garcia is flying to New York City on Wednesday for an interview with Anderson Cooper related to the stigma associated with women professionals married to convicts.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
December 23, 2011

Responding to concerns by Gov. Jerry Brown, Democratic leaders and budget stakeholders, civil rights attorney Molly Munger today submitted a new version of her initiative to increase income taxes for California schools.

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Molly Davis, Redlands Daily Facts
Posted: 12/22/2011 03:28:34 PM PST

REDLANDS – When it comes to fighting against an unwanted assembly bill, the Redlands Tea Party Patriots are working the old fashioned way – going door to door to gather signatures against AB 131.

The new legislation, AB 131, would give undocumented students in California the opportunity to apply for financial aid.

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Will Bigham, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/20/2011 06:07:01 PM PST

Related story: SB Valley College president to leave for Illinois job

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December 18, 2011 8:00 PM
Natasha Lindstrom, Staff Writer

VICTORVILLE • With just three weeks left to collect nearly 505,000 signatures, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly is working to rally support to repeal the California Dream Act, a controversial new law that grants state financial aid to illegal immigrants.

A handful of Stop AB 131 volunteers spent Thursday afternoon gathering several dozen signatures in the parking lot of the Mall of Victor Valley.

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Ryan Hagen, The (San Bernardino County) Sun
Created: 12/15/2011 03:14:13 PM PST

Cal State San Bernardino is the second-safest four-year public university in the state, according to a new report from StateUniversity.com.

The university’s crime rate puts it eighth overall among the 46 schools in the University of California, California State University and California Community College systems.

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Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 12/15/2011 04:06:53 PM PST

FONTANA – Leticia Garcia quietly stepped aside as vice president of the Fontana Unified School District Board on Wednesday night, nominating longtime board member Gus Hawthorn.

Previous to that action, Hawthorn had nominated BarBara Chavez for a second term as the board’s president.

Both measures were unanimously approved.

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December 15, 2011 1:21 PM
Natasha Lindstrom, Staff Writer

VICTORVILLE • Victor Valley College’s board members have voted themselves a 60 percent raise, increasing their monthly stipend from $250 to $400.

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Will Bigham, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/14/2011 10:26:26 PM PST

Statewide education officials on Wednesday decried “trigger cuts” announced this week to the state’s K-12 school system and said they wanted taxes raised to bolster education funding.

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By Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Created: 12/12/2011 04:41:50 PM PST

COLTON – Months of uncertainty and disagreement ended Monday, after the teachers union voted overwhelmingly to accept a new contract.

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California schools, libraries, prisons and disabled services will all be affected — with more to come, Gov. Jerry Brown warns.

By Anthony York and Teresa Watanabe
Los Angeles Times
December 14, 2011

Reporting from Sacramento and Los Angeles — Gov. Jerry Brown announced nearly $1 billion in new state budget cuts, slashing spending on higher education and eliminating funding for free school-bus service but avoiding the deeper reductions to public schools that many had feared.

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Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/12/2011 07:18:26 PM PST

Teachers and school board members continue to bristle that five schools in the San Bernardino City Unified School District did not qualify for a total of $7.2 million in state funding because of preventable mistakes, even as they push for a waiver.

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By Neil Nisperos. Staff Writer
Created: 12/12/2011 06:23:06 PM PST

Public school officials throughout the state are bracing for what may mean another huge blow to education with a potential trigger cut of $1.9 billion.

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By Kevin Yamamura
kyamamura@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Dec. 12, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Monday, Dec. 12, 2011 – 6:39 am

Next month, rural residents may struggle to find library books, and low-income families could lose subsidized child care.

Come February, public school districts may scour their calendars looking for days to shut their doors.

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Congressman Joe Baca

BY BEN GOAD
WASHINGTON BUREAU
bgoad@pe.com

Published: 09 December 2011 08:13 PM

WASHINGTON — Seeking to improve an education system he says is failing Indian country, Inland Rep. Joe Baca introduced legislation this week to overhaul the nation’s tribal schools.

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By Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/06/2011 08:40:50 PM PST

SAN BERNARDINO – There wasn’t any easing-in period for the three new members who joined the San Bernardino City Unified School District’s board Tuesday.

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By Kevin Yamamura
kyamamura@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A

Inspired by new polls showing that California voters may pass higher taxes for schools, the race is on to place tax hikes on the November 2012 ballot. But insiders warn of “mutually assured destruction” if multiple tax measures qualify.

It is tough enough persuading voters to approve any tax, but particularly so if voters are confused by competing measures.

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People throughout the Inland area are signing petitions to put a measure on the ballot that would prevent giving state grants to illegal immigrant college students.

BY DAVID OLSON
STAFF WRITER
dolson@pe.com

Published: 01 December 2011 09:26 PM

Gus Vizgirda drove more than a half hour out of his way Wednesday to sign a petition.

Vizgirda, 51, heard on the “John and Ken” conservative talk-radio show that the campaign to repeal the two-month-old California Dream Act – which allows state aid for illegal-immigrant college students – was in Temecula.

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Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/01/2011 06:12:59 PM PST

Colton teachers protested near Colton High School on Thursday, calling for district staff to return to the bargaining table as outside fact-finders prepare to investigate the bargaining process.

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to students, faculty and staff Wednesday at the Claremont McKenna College Ducey Gym. (Jennifer Cappuccio Maher/Staff Photographer)

Jannise Johnson, Staff Writer
Created: 11/30/2011 08:57:33 PM PST

CLAREMONT – Hundreds of students braved an autumn chill Wednesday night for the chance to hear former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speak at Ducey Gymnasium at Claremont McKenna College.

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Wes Woods II, Staff Writer
Created: 11/25/2011 06:21:17 PM PST

CLAREMONT – The Claremont Unified School District’s recent raises for two administrators that officials say will save thousands of dollars have drawn criticism from the Claremont Faculty Association.

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L.A. NOW
Southern California — this just in
November 20, 2011 | 12:00 pm

About half of California voters believe that teachers unions are too powerful, a new poll has found.

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USC Dornsife/Times Poll

A majority of California voters want teacher evaluations made public and want student test scores factored into the reviews, the USC Dornsife/L.A. Times poll finds.

By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times
November 20, 2011, 11:19 p.m.

California voters want teachers’ performance evaluations made public, a new poll has found. And most also want student test scores factored into an instructor’s review.

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Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 11/19/2011 02:56:37 PM PST

SAN BERNARDINO – Monday marks the deadline to apply for a part-time job in one of the district’s cafeterias, the first job opening the district’s Personnel Commission has processed in more than four years.

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Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 11/17/2011 06:36:41 PM PST

FONTANA – Despite a warning that the current school year is likely to end up with a $2.6 million deficit, the Fontana Unified School District Board on Wednesday night voted to bring back 10 laid off locker room attendants at a cost of $285,000.

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Lower-than-forecast revenue means automatic reductions will likely kick in. A shorter K-12 school year could result.

By Anthony York and Nicholas Riccardi
Los Angeles Times
November 17, 2011

Reporting from Sacramento— Sluggish state revenue is likely to trigger a new round of spending cuts that could mean a shorter school year and millions of dollars slashed from public universities, child care programs and services for the disabled, the Legislative Analyst’s Office says.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
November 16, 2011

California State University trustees today approved a 9 percent tuition increase to take effect this fall, university spokeswoman Claudia Keith said, increasing the cost of attending a state college by $498 a year.

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Ryan Hagen, The (San Bernardino County) Sun
Posted: 11/16/2011 12:22:37 AM PST

SAN BERNARDINO – The board of the San Bernardino City Unified School District has postponed a decision on how to choose a new superintendent until Dec. 6, noting that the current members weren’t in agreement and three newly elected members will begin serving then.

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By Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 11/14/2011 04:58:05 PM PST

CHINO – Chino Valley Unified School District board members will meet Thursday night continuing an all-too-frequent ordeal for the district: considering budget cuts.

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November 14th, 2011, 4:07 pm
Posted by Kimberly Edds, Staff Writer

In a bold move to make up for $49.5 million in tax revenues lost to the state earlier this year the County of Orange will grab $73.5 million in property taxes once destined for local school districts, County Supervisors Chairman Bill Campbell said Monday.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
November 14, 2011

California State University trustees will vote Wednesday on raising fees by $498, or about 9 percent, for fall 2012. That would bring annual tuition for undergrads at CSU’s 23 campuses to $5,970, not including books, room or board. Most campuses charge an additional $1,000 in local fees.

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Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 11/11/2011 04:35:38 PM PST

CHINO – Chino Valley Unified School District board members will interview 18 candidates next week to fill a vacant seat.

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Ryan Hagen, The (San Bernardino County) Sun
Posted: 11/09/2011 12:07:25 AM PST

SAN BERNARDINO — Voters swept three challengers and only one of three incumbents onto the board of the San Bernardino City Unified School District, according to unofficial results from Tuesday’s election.

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Alvord had two and Riverside Unified had three board positions in this election
BY DAYNA STRAEHLEY
STAFF WRITER
dstraehley@pe.com

Published: 08 November 2011 06:06 PM

Voters in the Riverside Unified School District chose three people for board seats, while voters in the Alvord school district picked two for the board.

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At least five will retire soon. Filling the raft of vacancies will be a challenge in the new fiscal era.
By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times
November 6, 2011, 9:16 p.m.

San Francisco State President Robert Corrigan decided this summer that at 76, he could not outlast a battered state economy that has forced deep cuts in programs and faculty at his and other Cal State campuses.

In August, he announced that he would step down at the end of the academic year to return to research and writing, leaving worries about the budget to his successor.

Corrigan is not alone.

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By Will Bigham Staff Writer
Posted: 11/05/2011 09:23:26 PM PDT

SAN BERNARDINO – Two administrators at San Bernardino Valley College have been placed on administrative leave, according to an email from college President Debra S. Daniels sent Oct. 31 to college staff members.

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BY JIM MILLER
STAFF WRITER
jmiller@pe.com

Published: 04 November 2011 12:25 PM

The San Bernardino Community College District has agreed to pay $2,000 as punishment for sending a newsletter that violated state political reform laws.

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Created: 10/30/2011 07:01:21 PM PDT

California’s largest teachers union seems to be having reservations about a proposed “millionaire’s tax,” even as labor groups hash out strategies for next year’s elections.

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By Diana Lambert
dlambert@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 1B
Last Modified: Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 – 6:53 am

School officials are on the edge of their seats.

In six weeks, they should know if they have to cut buses, shorten the school year, ask teachers to take furlough days, raid their reserves or cut programs.

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By Dale Kasler
dkasler@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A

What about CalSTRS?

Despite two years of lobbying from the teachers’ retirement fund, a plan to shore up CalSTRS’ finances was missing from Gov. Jerry Brown’s pension reform proposal this week.

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Ryan Hagen, The (San Bernardino County) Sun
Posted: 10/27/2011 03:16:03 PM PDT

SAN BERNARDINO – After accepting a top administrative post with the school district, Diego Ochoa has changed his mind.

Ochoa was hired Oct. 18 to fill a newly created position of administrative director curriculum/instruction and accountability and research (secondary education).

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Montes

Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/26/2011 06:40:35 PM PDT

RIALTO – For five years, Rialto Unified school board member Edgar Montes has had twin boys improperly enrolled in Fontana Unified School District.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011 – 06:00 a.m.

Boy, you really gotta hand it to those Redlands Unified School District trustees.

Earlier this year the group voted to quit funding secondary school bus service due to a financial shortfall.

A move most school districts resisted.

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Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/25/2011 06:32:57 PM PDT

SAN BERNARDINO – After spending all day Tuesday interviewing the top four candidates for superintendent, the school board rejected all four.

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California’s public universities enacted the highest average tuition increase, 21%, of any state, the College Board finds. Steep state funding cuts to higher ed were significant factors in pushing up tuition and fees nationwide.

By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times
October 26, 2011

Steep funding cuts to higher education in California and elsewhere were significant factors in pushing average tuition and fees up 8.3% at four-year public colleges and universities nationwide this fall, according to a report by the nonprofit College Board.

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Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/21/2011 07:00:21 PM PDT

SAN BERNARDINO – The school district has hired a top administrator who resigned from his past job after admitting to grading irregularities.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
October 21, 2011

Opponents of a new law that allows illegal immigrants to receive college financial aid were given the green light to begin collecting signatures for a referendum to overturn the measure, Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s office announced today.

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Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/20/2011 07:26:29 PM PDT

COLTON – More than 300 teachers protested against what they said are unfair contract demands again on Thursday, joined this time by firefighters, police officers and members of the National Organization for Women.

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Garcia

Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 10/19/2011 09:39:28 PM PDT

FONTANA – In a sparsely attended meeting, Fontana Unified School District board member Kathy Binks called for fellow board member Leticia Garcia to step aside until the District Attorney’s Office Public Integrity Unit can investigate whether Garcia violated any election code when she concealed her marriage to a convicted murderer who was in prison.

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Leticia Garcia and Acquanetta Warren

Ryan Carter, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/17/2011 06:47:45 PM PDT

FONTANA – School board member Leticia Garcia apologized Monday for not telling the public that she is married to a man convicted of murder, even as the mayor called for her to step down from her leadership position on the board.

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Fontana School Board Member Leticia Garcia.

Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 10/16/2011 08:53:22 PM PDT

FONTANA – The vice chairwoman of the Fontana Unified School District board has admitted she has been married to a convicted murderer since 2002, but on her application to run for the school board last year, she said she was divorced.

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Will Bigham, Staff Writer
Created: 10/16/2011 08:53:23 PM PDT

A majority of states indicated to the federal government last week that they will seek a waiver from No Child Left Behind regulations.

Though California officials are openly critical of the 9-year-old law, California was not among the 37 states (plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) that said they intend seek a waiver.

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Traffic moves along on Interstate 10 freeway approaching Interstate 405 freeway in Los Angeles, California. The measure, approved in 1978, was the inspiration for an antitax movement that has taken hold of the public discourse. Photographer: Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg

By Christopher Palmeri – Oct 16, 2011 9:01 PM PT

California voters approved Proposition 13 to rein in property taxes that had doubled in 10 years. More than three decades later, that rebellion has mortgaged the state’s future, saddling it with the nation’s highest debt and lowest credit rating.

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Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Created: 10/14/2011 12:12:00 PM PDT

CHINO – Chino Valley Unified School District officials worry the state’s financial crisis may soon change the district’s current education system.

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MARK MUCKENFUSS, STAFF WRITER
mmuckenfuss@pe.com

Published: 13 October 2011 05:29 PM

UC Riverside’s School of Business Administration has been listed among the best of the West in a newly published book by The Princeton Review.

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Donnelly

Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Created: 10/10/2011 04:55:21 PM PDT

California Dream Act AB 131

AUTHOR: Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles

WHAT IT DOES: Allows undocumented students in the state’s public colleges and universities, who meet in-state tuition requirements, to apply for state financial aid. AB 131 takes effect on Jan. 1, 2013.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
October 8, 2011

Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation today that would have allowed the University of California and California State University systems to consider race, ethnicity and gender in student admissions.

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Nanette Asimov,Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writers
Saturday, October 8, 2011

(10-08) 13:53 PDT Sacramento — For the first time, thousands of California students who are in the country illegally will be eligible to receive financial aid to attend any public college in the state at taxpayer expense, beginning in 2013, as Gov. Jerry Brown today signed into law AB131, known as the California Dream Act.

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Ryan Hagen. The (San Bernardino County) Sun
Posted: 10/06/2011 01:34:49 PM PDT

COLTON – The Colton Unified School District board on Thursday delayed making a decision on potential cuts to transportation – including a plan that would eliminate busing for most students and 41 jobs – after a last-minute offer by the union representing those employees.

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UCR campus Wednesday in Riverside, June 22, 2011. Terry Pierson/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

BY JACK KATZANEK
STAFF WRITER
jkatzanek@pe.com

Published: 05 October 2011 06:33 PM

New campus buildings, bigger research projects and more students are the main reasons UC Riverside’s economic impact has expanded to $1.4 billion, a study released this week by the school found.

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