Nonunion building contractors are continuing their efforts to stop the San Diego Unified School District board from enacting a project labor agreement, or PLA, with a local trades union.
San Diego Unified School District has selected SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell(R) as the standard platform for its Always-On Learning Initiative, a one-to-one mobile computing initiative designed to give students access to laptop computers with software tools and resources to help them achieve academic success and prepare them to learn, live and work in the 21st century.
District awarded top national honor for exceptional, creative use of technology to make learning fun for K-12 students MINNEAPOLIS -- The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is the 2007 recipient of the $250,000 Best Buy Teach Award for demonstrating exceptional creative use of interactive technology to help make learning fun for its K-12 students.
Trustees for the San Diego Unified School District are pursuing a controversial PLA that would require that all workers, as well as general contractors and their subcontractors, meet strict qualification and workplace guidelines.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] City-School District Collaborate Sanders and San Diego Unified School District Board of Education President Shelia Jackson at the eleventh hour in December proposed an alternative to bring on board the school district, which has access to $20 million of voter-approved money earmarked for a downtown school.
Joining Global Green in endorsing the Green Schools bill are: American Lung Association (Sponsor), Natural Resources Defense Council (Sponsor), California Teachers Association, California Federation of Teachers, Association of California School Administrators, California School Boards Association, Collaborative for High Performance Schools, Los Angeles Unified School District, San Diego Unified School District, San Francisco Unified School District, Dry Creek Joint Elementary School District, New Haven Unified School District, PG&E, Warner Bros.
