SMFCSD Teacher Salary Dispute
Thoughts on the current salary negotiations.
Author: David Kristofferson
Retired Ph.D. scientist, teacher (after retiring from industry, taught in private and public high schools and then worked a decade in my own private tutoring business), bioinformatician (managed both the NIH-funded GenBank National Nucleic Acid Sequence Databank and the BIONET National Computer Resource for Molecular Biology), IT director at Eos and Raven Biotechnologies, software product manager, AAAS Fellow, avid cyclist, and backpacker!
It’s AP ex(sc)am time again!
What does a test mean when the passing grade is only 36% ???
No Last Minute Miracle for Measure Y 🙁
Measure Y has failed…
UPDATE added 4/7/17 at 4:50: Last scheduled count has been posted and the percent Yes remains at 65.2%. Official certification comes 30 days after the election, but the measure is clearly dead in the water, falling short of the required two thirds majority. The article below was posted on 4/5/17 and is still of interest due to the comments that followed it.
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Measure Y revenues will NOT be replaced by the state if the measure fails to pass! Reply from SMFCSD CBO and Superintendent
If Measure Y does not pass, SMFCSD will definitely lose $7 million a year!
SAT Test Prep Recommendations
I frequently have clients ask me for SAT Test Prep recommendations.
How to Get in to Harvard
While doing research for an upcoming article about AP test scores, I ran across the following…
A Hole in the Aragon Math Curriculum
Aragon has a hole in the curriculum after precalculus. They could fill it by offering a non-AP calculus class.
San Mateo / Foster City Mail-in Ballot Coming for Measure Y
$7,000,000 in current local school funding will be lost if an existing parcel tax is not renewed!! Please be sure to submit your mail-in ballot when you receive it!
A New Year – but will it be “Happy?”
Catching up on important local school news, the college admission race, and Betsy DeVos.
Three Noteworthy Articles
Important articles on burnout, school choice/privatization, and the outlook for California school budgets.
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