Winter Break

Posted on December 8, 2011 by admin

High schools, Community Colleges and SF State calendars break December 16th. High Schools and Community Colleges resume immediately after New Years. SF State break runs until the end of January.

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What Will Districts Do?

Posted on June 15, 2011 by admin

There’s a deficit, and everyone has an idea what should be done. Not that there’s much agreement. So nobody really knows what will happen with the California budget for education; and it will certainly affect our lives.

Last month, immediately after Governor Jerry Brown issued his budget’s May Revision (see http://www.ebudget.ca.gov) the California Department of Education put out this news release:

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today issued the following statement: “The $3 billion increase in education funding by the Governor is welcome news across the state…Providing schools the resources they need is our shared responsibility, and the Governor’s proposal – after $18 billion in cuts over the last three years – offers us a chance to begin to meet it…I urge the Legislature to quickly embrace the Governor’s plan.

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Common Core

Posted on June 15, 2011 by admin

Adopted by California in 2010, these standards grew out of an initiative led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers.
High school graduates need to be able to succeed if they choose to enter work-training programs. If they’re headed for college, they need to handle college-level classes successfully – and our high college dropout rate says that’s not happening now.
The Common Core is aligned with the standards that allow other advanced nations to participate in a global economy: people who can productive in mathematics and science, and who can read and write. For example, here is the overview in Algebra:

  • Algebra: Seeing Structure in Expressions
    • interpret the structure
    • write expressions in equivalent forms to solve problems
  • Algebra: with Polynomials and Rational Expressions
    • understand the relationship between zeros and factors of polynomials
    • use polynomial identities to solve problems
  • Reasoning with Equations and Inequalities
    • understand solving equations as a process of reasoning
    • Solve problems with one variable
    • Solve systems of equations
    • Solve problems graphically

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