Saturday School or Funding Ploy?

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Orange County Register - Online

Mar 4, 1:00 AM

Saturday school makes district – and kids – happy

Sixth-grader Daniel Raza was sanding a tic-tac-toe board he crafted in Mesa View Middle School's wood shop on a recent Saturday morning, well aware that a couple of things weren't quite normal. For one thing, sixth-graders don't usually get to take wood shop at Mesa View. For another, there didn't used to be school on Saturday.

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Mar 4, 1:06 PM:

California law penalizes districts for poor attendance, but offers them a way to make up the funding: enrolling kids in Saturday school. Ocean View School District has already “recovered” over $63K. But what's to stop putting funding over learning? “Supplemental education services” were an expensive flop under NCLB, how is this different?

 

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