Schools presenting risk of 'serious harm' get no relief
Blog by Louis Freedberg/California Watch
Successful schools inadvertently labeled as posing a risk of "serious harm" to their students' health, safety or "general welfare," as a result of an emergency declared by the State Board of Education, will get no relief from the state Legislature. As I noted in a previous post, the State Board of Education has declared an emergency in 1,000 schools identified as among the lowest performing in the state. Students in those schools, for the first time, would have the right to transfer to any other school in the state, and would no longer be confined to schools in their own district. (more...



