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		<title>Guess how much we invest in our students - by Jeff Camp / commentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Camp / commentary</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the course of a public K-12 education, how much money will be invested in the average California student? How much does a basic, public K-12 education actually cost?
Do you know? Can you guess?
I will answer the question in a moment. But first, I want to help you feel as uncomfortable as possible about the fact that you don’t know. Because I bet you don’t, and I think you should. After all,...<br/>
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		<title>Salary tracker shows earning power of community college grads – often more than graduate degree holders - by Kathryn Baron</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Baron</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[With the right major, California community college graduates can out-earn workers with bachelor’s and master’s degrees – often by a lot.
Salary Surfer, an online consumer guide released by the Community College Chancellor’s Office Wednesday, lets prospective students and everyone else look up the median earnings for graduates of the 179 most popular subjects at community college campuses.
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		<title>Critical report on teacher preparation programs sparks debate - by Jane Meredith Adams and Kathryn Baron</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Meredith Adams and Kathryn Baron</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[California’s teacher training programs were excoriated as among the worst in a nation of poor-quality programs in a report released Tuesday, immediately sparking a debate about the validity of the report’s methodology and findings.
Nearly every teacher preparation program in California, at both public and private colleges and universities, received poor ratings in the report, which was issued by...<br/>
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		<title>National Council on Teacher Quality report is deeply flawed - by Linda Darling-Hammond / commentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Darling-Hammond / commentary</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[This week, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) issued a report, NCTQ Teacher Prep Review. Billed as a consumer&#8217;s guide, the report rates teacher preparation programs on a list of criteria ranging from selection and content preparation to coursework and student teaching aimed at the development of teaching skills. While the report appropriately focuses on these aspects of teacher...<br/>
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		<title>Business, military signal strong support for public preschool, but Republican lawmakers unswayed - by Lillian Mongeau</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lillian Mongeau</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Early childhood education advocates are working to make it clear that not everyone supporting President Barack Obama’s proposal to vastly expand federal funding for preschool and infant and toddler care is a tax-and-spend liberal.
“This has become a bipartisan issue in the real world,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said recently in a sound bite that has become standard language in his...<br/>
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		<title>Interactive graphic of state budget highlights for education - by John Osborn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Click here to see EdSource Today&#8217;s interactive graphic of the budget the Legislature passed Friday. The Legislature on Friday passed a $96.3 billion budget plan for the state that includes a shift in how California funds schools and contains significant funding for education. Schools and community colleges will receive $55.3 billion under the voter-approved school funding guarantee. The...<br/>
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		<title>State budget puts community colleges on (slow) path to recovery - by Kathryn Baron</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Baron</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Celebrate might be too strong a word, but, in the current fiscal context, community colleges have reason to at least raise a small glass as they head into summer.
The budget bill passed Friday by the Legislature brings the budget for the 112 community colleges up to $6 billion for the 2013-14 fiscal year. That&#8217;s up by more than $200 million over this year, and begins the process of...<br/>
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		<title>State Board handed job of defining rules of new funding system - by John Fensterwald</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Legislature will vote today on a bill establishing Gov. Brown’s historic school funding system that punts to the State Board of Education some key decisions on how dollars for disadvantaged students must be spent and accounted for.
Senate Bill 91, the 178-page “trailer” bill containing statutory changes for Gov. Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula, was released Thursday, one day before...<br/>
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		<title>After historic win, much collective work lies ahead - by Ted Lempert / commentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Lempert / commentary</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[California is about to embark on the most comprehensive reform to its school finance system in 40 years, putting local communities in the driver’s seat and making a historic investment of more than $10 billion in high-needs students. The compromise Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) to be voted on by the state Legislature by the June 15 deadline also fairly addresses the earlier...<br/>
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		<title>LCFF lemmings poised to leap? - by Eric Premack / commentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Premack / commentary</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The current Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) legislation pending before the Legislature utterly fails to reach any of the key reform goals that Gov. Jerry Brown and his advisers articulated. The bill presents the Legislature and governor with a stark choice.
The key goals of LCFF, as articulated by the governor’s astute adviser Mike Kirst and his colleagues in a seminal paper, were as...<br/>
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