June 22, 2022
Since 1993, Davis Demographics has been partnering with districts to successfully respond to a variety of planning challenges and effectively address ongoing demographic changes. Their demographers and planners are experts in the field and, along with the other experts at EH&A/MGT, they will continue to be committed to serving public education by developing successful planning…
School Services Q & A shows alarming data that COLA increases don’t equal the actual costs associated with the pension increases slated for 22-23. Q. Since the statutory COLA is 6.56%, the new budget increase should be more than enough of a percentage increase to pay rising employer contributions and that any additional base grant…
A recent U.S. District Court decision out of Washington State provides clarification regarding how school districts are to apply their sexual harassment policies and analyze conduct as it relates to students with disabilities. Specifically, the decision in Berg v. Bethel School District (W.D. Wash., Mar. 16, 2022, No. 3:18-CV-5345-BHS) clarifies that a school district is…
The elections held on June 7, 2022, were closely watched for a number of reasons. As the state’s Primary Election, most of the attention throughout was on congressional, mayoral, and other hotly contested statewide races. For the most part, the primaries are used to determine the top two vote getters for runoffs in November. Less…
For the past 13 years, there has only been one union in San Diego County that represents school principals and other school supervisors and administrators, at San Diego Unified School District. That is until last month, when Chula Vista Elementary School District became the second district to have a school administrators union. Both San Diego…
The new polling showing educators as the most burned-out group among all other industries is the latest in a series of data points that underscores the fragility of the education workforce. A new Gallup poll shows that 44% of K-12 employees say they “always” or “very often” feel burned out at work, including 52% of…
The long-awaited Del Mar Heights School rebuild hit another roadblock last month after a San Diego County Superior Court judge granted an injunction in an ongoing lawsuit by a local nonprofit claiming the project was not properly vetted for environmental and safety impacts. Judge Katherine Bacal granted the injunction request from nonprofit Save the Field…
The use of piggyback contracting for the acquisition of permanent modular buildings has been challenged by the DGS through a policy decision made by OPSC. Our colleagues at OPSC have unearthed an opinion of the Attorney General dated January 24, 2006, which they rely upon to conclude that capital funding through the School Facility Program…
June 17, 2022
Perspective from the Coalition for Adequate School Housing Last week the Legislature approved the 2022-23 State Budget bill (SB 154). Traditionally, the State Budget bill would be comprised of a negotiated agreement between the Legislature and the Governor. However, this bill is actually a placeholder intended to meet the State Budget deadline while negotiations continue…
A CalMatters investigation found that schools had wildly different approaches to stimulus spending — from laptops to shade structures to an ice cream truck. No centralized database exists to show the public exactly where the money went. When the pandemic closed schools in March 2020 – abruptly ending classes and stranding children and working parents…