Articles in this issue

• Final budget cuts funding as expected
  After months of haggling, the Legislature passed a state budget. There’s no good news in it for education or anyone else, but educators can now finalize district budgets with the knowledge of how much education faces in mid-year and 2009-10 cuts.
• ‘Pink Friday’ a day to stand up for schools
  ACSA encourages participation in the Stand Up For Schools Day of Action, March 13, to protest continued cuts to education funding and to call on the governor and lawmakers to adequately fund public schools.
• Middle schools using timely resource: TCSII Web portal a success
  One year after its inception, Taking Center Stage–Act II, the California Department of Education’s Web portal for middle grades educators, has become an integral part of planning and reform by ACSA members across the state.
• Changes in store for ACSA’s summer principal programs
  ACSA’s newly redesigned Residential Programs for School Leaders at UCLA – formerly the Center for Educational Leadership – has been streamlined to focus on the principalship. It now consists of the Principals’ Summer Institute and the Colloquium for New and Aspiring Principals.
• Build capacity, commitment to next-level PLCs
  The New Teacher Center at University of California Santa Cruz is collaborating with ACSA to offer a one-day workshop, “Professional Learning Communities: Culture Not Program,” designed for individual school leaders and for school teams.