Magazine owes students a million thanks, San Diego Business Journal
A feasibility study for San Diego Magazine by a team of MBA students at San Diego State University saved the publication “upwards” of $1 million that might have been lost by publishing an edition in Spanish without sufficient demand to support it.

Sac State students mull fee to build rec/arena complex, Sacramento Bee
The major attraction for Sac State's 28,000 students would be the facility's recreation, fitness and health attributes.

Winning Designs to Take Root at CSUCI, Los Angeles Times
Two Ventura County architects are among four whose ideas are chosen to help restore courtyards on the Spanish-style campus.

HSU professor to devise wave predicting model, Eureka Times-Standard
Humboldt State University oceanography professor Greg Crawford will be spending the next two years working on a computer model that will give area residents sufficient warning of dangerous waves at the entrance to Humboldt Bay.

Running on empty: It ain’t pretty, but, hey, we knew that, right?, Chico News & Review
In a meeting filled with somber resignation, members of the University Budget Committee had but one question: How much will Chico State have to cut, and how much will it hurt?

Panel to visit lab to gather criteria for contract bid, Contra Costa Times
A National Academies of Science committee will convene at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory next month to gather information relevant to the upcoming contract bid competitions for the lab and its sister facility, Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

LAUSD Adopts Anti-Sweatshop Code, Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Unified School District has adopted one of the nation's most sweeping anti-sweatshop measures, requiring suppliers of everything from desks to scissors to disclose where and how those products were made and guarantee that workers making them earn a "non-poverty" wage.

State Education Officials Seek More Flexibility in No Child Left Behind Act, Los Angeles Times
California schools chief Jack O'Connell and education leaders from 13 other states urged the Bush administration Wednesday to help revise the No Child Left Behind law, saying the measure penalizes schools that improve on state tests but fail to meet rigid federal targets.

Healthier lunches at schools favored, Sacramento Bee
In an effort to control expanding waistlines of schoolchildren, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted 8-2 to approve legislation requiring healthier school lunch fare.

14 States Ask U.S. to Revise Some Education Law Rules, New York Times
Fourteen states asked the Bush administration on Wednesday for permission to use alternative methods for showing academic gains under the No Child Left Behind law.

Led by Colorado, States Weigh New Approaches to Financing Colleges, Chronicle of Higher Education
As state budget deficits and other spending restrictions continue to squeeze higher education, lawmakers in several states are considering changes in financing that would make public colleges look more like private ones.

Clean break: Vacationing college students pick civic projects over partying, San Diego Union-Tribune
While scores of American college students are partying like rock stars at beachfront resorts this week, a group from Boise State University is getting down and dirty in San Diego.

Black colleges seeking to stem HIV cases, CNN/AP
Many historically black colleges are stepping up safe-sex education in response to health researchers' finding of a spike in HIV infection rates among black students more than 20 years into the AIDS epidemic.

Opinion: Putting colleges in charge of schools, Los Angeles Daily News
Trials demonstrate partnerships do produce measurable results.

George Skelton: Taxpayers Take a 'Timeout' From Pledge to Fund Colleges, Los Angeles Times
State Librarian Kevin Starr offers the best explanation I've heard about why Californians seem to be reneging on their historical commitment to public higher education. Anyway, it's the most upbeat, hopeful explanation.

Editorial: The Empire Strikes Back, Wall St. Journal
Florida will be a pivotal battleground this November, but on the crucial subject of education reform the battle in that state is already joined.

Daniel Weintraub: Duck! More ballot-box budgeting is on the way, Sacramento Bee
For California, 2004 is starting to look like the year of the boutique tax increase. Three measures heading toward the November ballot each seek to secure a relatively narrow slice of income or assets and dedicate it to a favored purpose.

Opinion: Time for Poly to tackle lack of diversity, San Luis Obispo Tribune
Despite well-intentioned efforts, as noted previously in The Tribune and most recently in a story in Sunday's Los Angeles Times, Poly has dropped to about last place among major public universities statewide for enrollment of minority undergraduates.

George Will: Using creativity as an education tool, San Diego Union-Tribune
After eight years at Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School, Ethel Bojorquez knows a thing or two about teaching. She radiates calm, no-nonsense authority, and today she is watching a kindred spirit, Carole Valleskey, put Bojorquez's 35 fourth-and fifth-graders briskly through their paces.

Opinion: Getting the Most Out of the Nation's Teachers, New York Times
Public school teachers just aren't as smart as they used to be. After all, women have more job opportunities. Bright women who once would have taught school today become doctors and lawyers. The gain for individual women is a loss for education. Or so many people believe.

Editorial: Tweaking reform, San Bernardino Sun
Superintendent's high expectations for high schools.

Bending a bit on workers' comp, Sacramento Bee
The governor opens door to compromise but keeps the heat on legislators.

State hiring freeze crippling agencies, Stockton Record
A state government hiring freeze designed to stem the flow of deficit spending actually is preventing voter-approved bond money from going to the programs for which it was intended, experts told a legislative panel Wednesday.

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