Articles in this issue

• Experienced educational leader leads association
  Longtime educator Bob Lee, director of secondary education at the Manteca Unified School District in the San Joaquin Valley, has taken the reigns as president of the Association of California School Administrators.
• EdCo develops guiding tenets on adequacy
  The Education Coalition has formed an internal work group to address the issue of adequate resources and governance reforms. The group will be focusing on designing a list of shared principles for its advocacy work in the Capitol.
• Highly accomplished practices explored
  Just what does it take to recruit and retain highly accomplished leaders at the site and district levels? ACSA is hoping to answer that very question through partnerships with other educational agencies as well as practicing educational leaders.
• EL test reveals strides in goals to improve skills
  State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell has released the annual assessment results of the revised 2006-07 California English Language Development Test taken by more than 1.3 million English learners in kindergarten through grade 12.