DA’s office looking into CUSD credit card scandal
City falls short on murder-free month
Latinos turn out to community-sponsored town hall
Youth walk away winners from Sports Spectacular
Bill ensuring funding for new MLK hospital passes state legislature
Gang members arrested in racketeering case
‘Living Legends’ lauded by supervisor
DEA seeks Ebonics experts to help with cases
New ambulance service covering city’s east side
Fall classes still available at Compton Center
State had weak support for school grant bid
CUSD must submit fiscal plan to county by next week
Joseph
Phillips:
Is America only for white people?
Governor
expected to sign CUSD-sponsored legislation on foster youth
SB1353 would
make academic stability a must for foster youth
From staff reports
Legislation
designed to boost California foster children’s prospects for
improved academic performance by limiting the number of school transfers
they endure each year, has been sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,
and the local school district has submitted a ‘Request for Signature’ letter
to his office.
Sponsored by Compton Unified School District and authored by Sen.
Roderick Wright, D – Inglewood, Senate Bill 1353, which won wide
consensus and bipartisan support in the California State Legislature this
year, would add academic stability as one of the key elements of matters
considered in the best interest of foster children in public schools.
The bill clarifies that when school transfers are necessary in accordance
with the law, social workers and local education agencies should collaborate
to schedule the placement change to coincide with summer matriculation.
The bill passed both houses of the Legislature without a single “no” vote
and with the backing of a wide range of foster care stakeholders including
social workers, teachers and probation officials.
“Studies have shown that foster children who are constantly moved
from school-to-school during the academic year have very poor academic
achievement levels and among the lowest high school graduation rates
of any student population,” Wright said. ...
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