The “Committee to Recall Georgia Acosta” gave the embattled Pajaro Valley Unified School District trustee notice of its intent to petition her recall — after gaining the required 20 signatures from district residents — at a board of trustees meeting Wednesday night.
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SLV school district parting ways with senior administrator Ned Hearn, accused of decades-old sexual abuse
San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District is not renewing the employment contract of Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Services Ned Hearn, an administrator shadowed for years by allegations he sexually abused a high school student in the 1990s at another district. Hearn has consistently denied the allegations.
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‘Predatory behavior’: Kirby School investigation concludes former teacher engaged in ‘grooming’ misconduct
San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District is not renewing the employment contract of Assistant Superintendent of…
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Newsom proposes transitional kindergarten for all California 4-year-olds in budget plan
Providing transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-old children could cost $2.7 billion a year at full implementation.
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‘Difficulties and wariness’: Soquel school district’s student services director taking fire from staff
After taking a no-confidence vote in the leadership of their department’s director in January, student services staff at Soquel Union Elementary School District aired their grievances against Eric Olsen publicly this week.
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Decades-old sexual abuse allegations against SLVUSD administrator resurface in lawsuit
SLVUSD Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Ned Hearn is accused in a civil lawsuit to have raped and sexually abused a then-16-year-old girl when she was a student at Dixon High School in Solano County and he worked at the school. Hearn is denying the allegations.
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Here’s what UC says about the chances of being plucked from massive waitlists at UCSC, systemwide
Tens of thousands of UC applicants are wait-listed this year amid record applications, and admissions chiefs say forecasting chances of being selected is as uncertain as ever. At UC Santa Cruz, admissions director Michelle Whittingham says she wouldn’t even use waitlists if she didn’t have to. But enrollment prediction — a discipline that aims to meld the science of data analysis with the guesswork of anticipating teenage whims — can be dicey.
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Enrollment dipped across many Santa Cruz County public schools last fall, threatening ‘huge impact’
The number of students in Santa Cruz County’s public schools fell to 39,724 as of fall 2020. The decrease marks the first time in nearly a decade that countywide enrollment fell below 40,000, and it threatens to impact districts’ staffing and budgets in years ahead unless it rebounds.
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O’Neill Sea Odyssey responds to executive’s resignation after she alleges ‘racism, misogyny and privilege’
O’Neill Sea Odyssey on Thursday evening responded to the resignation letter that its executive director, Rachel Kippen, had posted publicly the day before. Wrote Kippen: “Our Board of Directors is predominantly male (seven of eight), entirely white, representative of one age group [and] not from the communities that the organization primarily serves …”
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Missing kindergarteners drive largest drop in 20 years in California’s K-12 enrollment
Charter schools experienced an increase in enrollment