Articles in this issue

• Professor of Education of the Year
  ACSA’s 2008 Professor of Education of the Year, Gary Kinsey, knows that a career in education has become increasingly complex. He also points out it is full of challenges and opportunities.
• Fight to return earned benefits in SS continues
  ACSA leaders joined other educators, police officers and firefighters Sept. 29 to spread the word about Social Security provisions that drastically reduce or eliminate retirement benefits of public employees.
• Final budget analysis reveals challenges
  This year's budget merely sweeps the chronic structural problem under the rug of budgetary tricks and borrowing, and already leaves the 2009-10 budget $1.5 billion in the hole before it even gets out of the gate.
• Bills won and lost in 2008-09 budget battle
  There was good news and bad news on the bill-vetoing front. The good news was that Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoed Assembly Bill 2167, identified as one of this session’s bills that would be particularly harmful from a school administrator’s viewpoint.
• Districts urged to meet PI funding deadline
  Nearly $80.5 million in Title 1 Program Improvement Corrective Action grants have been announced. However, more than $20 million is still at risk of reversion to the federal government if grantees fail to file their paperwork on time.
• Join supt. leadership cohort during ACSA annual summit
  Leading the Leaders is a professional development program designed to assist first- and second-year superintendents as they enter a new phase of their educational career. The 2007-08 cohort meets next at the Leadership Summit.