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The Lady Centaurs didn't lose their cool, last night when they fell behind Wilson's fast start in the first set 20-10. The team made the necessary adjustments to their game as Coach Tanner Siegal began to change up their defensive rotations to take advantage of the size of their talented blockers: Daina Monore, Jayli Nealy, Lauren Tishkoff and Sophia Muller. Culver, then went on an 8-1 run to close within three at 21-18 and were still behind 23-19 when they won the final six points to pull out...
Starting in 2013, all school districts around the state--including the CCUSD, have been paying the state-mandated increases in annual percentages set by Gov Brown's program to pay off CalSTRS unfunded liabilities and help fund its future payouts. A district’s annual CalSTRS payment is based on its certificated employees’ salaries: The higher the salary, the more has to be paid. During the first dozen or so years of this century, the CCUSD was paying some of the lowest wages in LA County. It would follow, then, that our district also should have...
Contributing Columnist In 2014-15 our district hired so many new teachers that almost one in five teachers (18.3%) in our district were first and second year teachers with very little or no real classroom experience. The State’s Education Dept. has just released new data for the school year 2015-16. (See the latest CCUSD data here.) Even though this latest data is almost two years old it does show a disturbing trend in the increased hiring (22.3%) of first and second year teachers. In some cases, at a couple of individual schools the p...
