Post by Logan on Feb 1, 2016 0:36:56 GMT -6
Schools rolling in dough, but 'scary' clouds appear on horizon
VALLEJO -- Vallejo High School teacher Lewis Brown starts his morning government class with a question of the day that takes advantage of newly assigned iPads.
"Today is the one year anniversary of the French magazine terrorist assassination," Brown says. "What was the name of the magazine?" In seconds, 17-year-old SioFilisi Anitoni answers from the back row, "Mr. Brown, Charlie Hebdo."
Vallejo City Unified School District is hoping to improve classroom learning by using increased state funds to raise teacher salaries, open new computer labs and assign iPads to each of its roughly 1,000 high school students.
And the district is hardly alone. Up and down California, school districts that handed out tens of thousands of pink slips in the recession are now buying equipment and scrambling to find qualified teachers, a problem driven in part by low recruitment and high turnover. With the state's recent economic gains and a temporary tax approved by voters in 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a $71.6 billion education budget for the next fiscal year, up more than 50 percent since 2011.
Read more: www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_29456747/schools-rolling-dough-but-scary-clouds-appear-horizon
VALLEJO -- Vallejo High School teacher Lewis Brown starts his morning government class with a question of the day that takes advantage of newly assigned iPads.
"Today is the one year anniversary of the French magazine terrorist assassination," Brown says. "What was the name of the magazine?" In seconds, 17-year-old SioFilisi Anitoni answers from the back row, "Mr. Brown, Charlie Hebdo."
Vallejo City Unified School District is hoping to improve classroom learning by using increased state funds to raise teacher salaries, open new computer labs and assign iPads to each of its roughly 1,000 high school students.
And the district is hardly alone. Up and down California, school districts that handed out tens of thousands of pink slips in the recession are now buying equipment and scrambling to find qualified teachers, a problem driven in part by low recruitment and high turnover. With the state's recent economic gains and a temporary tax approved by voters in 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a $71.6 billion education budget for the next fiscal year, up more than 50 percent since 2011.
Read more: www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_29456747/schools-rolling-dough-but-scary-clouds-appear-horizon