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This award may be applied to tuition and other fees at public or private colleges for students working towards an associate's or bachelor's degree. In the 2018-19 school year, the grant covers $5,742 at California State Universities and $12,570 at University of California schools. Up to $9,084 is given to students attending a private school. [3]
Admitted students are designated California Arts Scholars. Upon completion of the program, the students are awarded a Governor's Medallion, the highest distinction in California for artistically talented students. Founded in 1987, CSSSA is a California State agency funded through a unique public/private partnership. [4]
Teach For America teachers are full-fledged faculty members at their schools, receiving the normal school district salary and benefits as well as a modest AmeriCorps "education voucher" (which can be used to pay for credentialing courses, cover previous student loans or fund further education during or after the two-year commitment). They do ...
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A school district in northern California said 10 teachers left the district last year because of high living costs.
For decades, California had enjoyed full funding for its schools and unique educational programs. Then in 1978, California voters approved Proposition 13 in an attempt to cut property taxes. The state's public school system and its employees would never be the same. By 1995, California plummeted from fifth in the country to 40th in school spending.
The state already suspended its popular leave buy-back program as part of an “expenditure freeze” to cut costs.
Similarly, teaching assistants at the University of California at Berkeley started a union campaign in 1983. [29] Eventually in 1993, exam readers and tutors, but not graduate assistants, were given collective bargaining rights at Berkeley. [30] [31] Full collective bargaining status to all teaching assistants was not given until 1999. [29]