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Civil Rights Groups Ask Obama Administration to Evaluate RTTT, Charter School Accountability A coalition of civil rights groups met with Obama Administration officials on Monday, and discussed a 17-page document in which the civil rights groups politely asked the Obama Administration to reconsider several key aspects of education policy. The document – titled “Framework for Providing All Students an Opportunity to Learn” – is a collaboration by groups including the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Schott Foundation for Public Education, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Coalition for Educating Black Children, National Urban League, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc... New Emergency Regulations on Open Enrollment, Parent Empowerment Opposed by ACSA In an alert sent to members on Wednesday, the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) restated its opposition to the emergency regulations for the Open Enrollment Act, as well as emergency regulations relating to Parent Empowerment of that bill, which were approved last week by the State Board of Education (SBE). As reported in EdBrief last week, the State Board of Education (SBE) voted on July 15 to approve sending to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) a set of emergency regulations to speed up the implementation of State Sen. Gloria Romero’s Open Enrollment Act (SB X5 4 – Chapter 3)... Second Lawsuit Seeks to Force Overhaul of California's Public Education Finance System A new lawsuit aimed at forcing an overhaul of California’s public education finance system was filed in Alameda Superior Court on Monday, on behalf of a coalition of grassroots groups and individuals representing low-income students and parents across California. The lawsuit calls on state government “provide all California public school students with a new school finance system that sufficiently and equitably supports its public schools, so that every child has a reasonable opportunity to obtain a meaningful education that prepares them for civic, social, and economic success in the 21st century.”... Governor Signs AB 346, Clarifying Fingerprinting, Background Check Requirements for Volunteers Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed AB 346 by Assemblymember Connie Conway (R-Tulare), which clarifies fingerprinting requirements and background security checks for school volunteers. The law takes effect immediately. Basically, the intent of the legislation is to ensure those individuals who are working directly with students at a school sponsored activity are fingerprinted. But the fingerprinting requirement does not apply to individuals who are in programs “affiliated with” a school district; the bill only deals with school sponsored pupil activities... Bills on the Move 
In a fairly light hearing Thursday, Senate Appropriations Committee members took up a number of Assembly bills. A majority of these bills are headed for the suspense file, while more line up for the committee’s next hearing on August 2nd. Here are summaries of a few bills heard on Thursday.
Finance AB 317 (Solorio D) School attendance: H1N1 (2009) influenza virus. |
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