CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE PASSES KINDERGARTEN READINESS ACT




The California Federation of Teachers (CFT) worked closely with other early childhood education advocates, like Preschool California, on SB 1381 by Senator Joe Simitian. The bill changes the date from December to September for which a child must turn five to start kindergarten and allows districts to provide transitional kindergarten for those students born between September and December. See below for more details from Preschool California.

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Golden Heart & Hands Award

The Golden Heart and Hands Award honors a support staff AGCEP member who has contributed outstanding accomplishments to Greece Central School District and our community.

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2010 Petition Drive to Raise Revenues

AEAA has launched a 2010 Petition Drive to Raise Revenues. This weblink provides a PDF file petition download, as well as where state lawmakers can find the money to provide an education for New Mexico's K-12 school children, as well as college and university students. Included is information about THREE POINT PLAN: A Permanent Fix for Budget Cuts.

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The Value-Added Approach

The Los Angeles Times has recently published a series of articles on the concept of "value added" teacher evaluation tools.

Essentially, the Times is assessing teacher perfomance based on the test scores of students.  Each students'  tests scores are used to project future progress.  Here is an explanation of the value-added approach.

Click on the title to read the reposnes to the value-added approach.






 

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Officers & Titles

Sue Parton                      President

David Garza                    Executive Vice President

Neaita Eagle Tail            OST Representative

Polly Kalich                     AS-IA Representative

Michael Ashley               BIA Representative

Lorene Williams             BIE Representative

Michael Jennings           Executive Director

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