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	<title>Thoughts on Public Education</title>
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		<title>CSBA: Vote for both tax plans - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/22/csba-vote-for-both-tax-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 07:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Initiatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Biehl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josephine Lucey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Molly Munger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vernon Billy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The state PTA backs the tax initiative financed by civil rights attorney Molly Munger; the California Teachers Association and the Association of California School Administrators endorsed the governor’s. This week, the California School Boards Association decided to support both.
On Sunday, at the urging of CSBA’s board of directors, school board members in the Delegate Assembly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAO: No need for $5.5 billion cut - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/21/lao-no-need-to-cut-schools-5-5-billion/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/21/lao-no-need-to-cut-schools-5-5-billion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 07:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Colleges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maintenance factor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proposition 98. LAO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Legislative Analyst’s Office is suggesting an alternative to the massive cut to K-12 schools and community colleges that Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing if his tax initiative fails in November. Instead of a real spending cut of $2.8 billion, or $415 per K-12 student, districts and community colleges would be cut $1 billion, or [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Watching California public schools sink — a preventable Titanic - by Tamara Hurley</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/20/watching-california-public-schools-sink-%e2%80%94-a-preventable-titanic/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/20/watching-california-public-schools-sink-%e2%80%94-a-preventable-titanic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 06:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Hurley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Initiatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenue and taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One hundred years ago last month, the cry “women and children first” echoed on the decks of the ill-fated Titanic. A century later, the ship carrying California’s future is listing in the water. However, it seems that today no one is willing to make a sacrifice: It’s every man, woman, and child for himself or [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Charters, ed groups at odds - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/18/charters-ed-coalition-at-odds-over-buildings/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/18/charters-ed-coalition-at-odds-over-buildings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Education Coalition, the organization that represents mainstream education groups, announced its opposition Thursday to Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to require a school district to offer charter schools any building that it decides it no longer needs.
The proposal is one of several that the governor included in his May budget revision to benefit charters, which, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Full-scale assault on dismissal laws - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/17/full-scale-assault-on-tenure-dismissal-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/17/full-scale-assault-on-tenure-dismissal-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evaluations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tenure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A nonprofit founded by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur has filed a sweeping, high-stakes lawsuit  challenging state teacher protection laws. A victory would overturn a tenure, dismissal, and layoff system that critics blame for the hiring and retention of ineffective teachers. A loss in court could produce bad case law, impeding more targeted efforts to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>Busting out of traditional notion of school demands taking risks - by Robert Schwartz</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/17/busting-out-of-traditional-notion-of-school-demands-taking-risks/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/17/busting-out-of-traditional-notion-of-school-demands-taking-risks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I&#8217;m too close to it. I&#8217;ve started schools, run schools, taught in  schools, gone to school, visited schools – and they all look pretty much  the same.
As I imagine what schools might look like, I bump up against my  preconceived and ingrained notions of what school has always been –  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another strike at Transitional K - by Kathryn Baron</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/16/another-strike-at-transitional-kindergarten/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/16/another-strike-at-transitional-kindergarten/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 08:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Baron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindergarten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preschool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Unified]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simitian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transitional Kindergarten]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Governor Brown isn’t giving up on efforts to curtail Transitional Kindergarten (TK), despite being rebuffed by both the Senate and Assembly subcommittees dealing with education funding. The May Revision budget plan, released Monday, seeks to make TK a voluntary program and use the savings to restore proposed cuts to state-funded preschool.
The State Department of Finance [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Persuade, not threaten, me to vote for your initiative, Governor - by Arun Ramanathan</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/16/persuade-not-threaten-me-to-vote-for-your-initiative-governor/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/16/persuade-not-threaten-me-to-vote-for-your-initiative-governor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun Ramanathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few Saturdays ago, my kids and I walked through a crowd of signature gatherers for ballot initiatives outside Trader Joe’s. Some of them all but tackled me as they pitched their proposals. All of them promised more money for education and a better future for my children. Unfortunately for the signature gatherers’ bottom line, I didn’t have time to stop. My children and their school had more immediate needs. We were on our way to a Dance-A-Thon, one of many “-thons” that California parents [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Big changes to weighted formula - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/15/big-changes-to-weighted-formula/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/15/big-changes-to-weighted-formula/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Student spending]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Responding to criticisms of his plan for school finance reform, Gov. Jerry Brown has significantly revised his weighted student formula, raising the base amount that all districts will receive, reducing the differences between district “winners” and “losers” by reducing extra money for disadvantaged students, assuring districts they will be repaid for past budget cuts, and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>K-12 schools spared, for now - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/15/k-12-schools-spared-for-now/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/05/15/k-12-schools-spared-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student spending]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The state budget for next year has deteriorated by $6 billion since January, but Gov. Jerry Brown is not proposing to cut money for K-12 schools – immediately. But if voters in November reject Brown’s proposed $8.5 billion tax increase, schools will be a $5.5 billion piece of what the governor has called “a day [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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