Issue: August 12, 2010
Buses and backpacks
It’s that time of year again when the buses get fueled up, ready to take eager children to school. And that means it’s time for the CN&R’s annual Back to School issue, the K-12 edition. In our feature story this week, contributor Leslie Layton investigates the effect charter schools are having on the Chico Unified School District. But that’s not all. We also take a look at how diabetic kids get treatment while on campus; how the Boys & Girls Club is faring minus a collaboration with CUSD; a teacher who wears two distinctively different hats; and the district’s brand-spanking-new performing arts center.
Tune in next week when we roll out the red carpet for college students, and don’t forget to vote for your favorite local businesses in our Best of Chico contest—you could win a scooter! And there are a few weeks left to complete our Summer Challenge, so check out the criteria and check off those activities.
Until next time,
Meredith Cooper, managing editor
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The new segregation
Separate but not equal: How charter schools are creating an educational divide.
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The high cost of special ed
CUSD faces growing bill, more disabled students.
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CUSD by the numbers
Figures show makeup of student population.
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Kids caught in the middle
Are school nurses protecting diabetic kids—or their jobs?
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Chico High shutters West program
After 14 years, a Chico High “smaller learning community” is no more.
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CUSD cuts off bus routes to Boys & Girls Club
Parents are left scrambling to find transportation after school.
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Teaching confrontation
Gun lobbyist preaches to Tea Party choir.
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Can’t get off the pot
Chico Planning Commission runs short on time during medi-pot debate, schedules new meeting.
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Bottling plant battle continues
Lawsuit over a proposed Orland Crystal Geyser plant gains traction.
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Supes allocate funds to Catalyst
Domestic violence prevention nonprofit gets priority over DA’s office when it comes to special funding.
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Bottoms up, America
The drinking rate for U.S. adults has reached a 25-year high.
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Preservation revival
Canning is on the upswing as Americans look for methods to store food.
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Cleaner cars are coming
Collaborative joins effort to get California ready for plug-in vehicles.
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Scientists break ice in Greenland
After nearly two miles and five years of drilling, scientists hit bedrock in Greenland.
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Trash threatens Chinese dam
Trash islands inch closer to dam gates as debris floats downstream.
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Chicken coops and pink slime
Patrick Ranch’s chickens; grinding your own beef.
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Keep the pressure on
BP Blows site aims to remind the nation the Gulf oil spill might be over, but the effects are still being felt.
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Toward marriage equality
Facts trump bigotry in Proposition 8 case.
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Selling rice to Cuba
Chico area farmers should support a bill that would open trade.
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Some Edgar Slough history
Just because it provides irrigation water doesn’t make it a ditch.
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Letters for August 12, 2010
Our always-sharp readers let us know what they think.
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Double duty
Stayce York juggles teaching elementary school and coaching varsity softball—and she wouldn’t do it any other way.
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This scofflaw gets busted
L.A. councilman faces 18 felony counts for living outside his district. What about Jim Nielsen?
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The stage is set
CUSD starts school year with new performing arts facility.
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Crooked Still
Crooked Still cooking up a batch of bluegrass-chamber music.
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Tao of Keen
Robert Earl Keen—always on the road, trying to keep ahead of the dust.
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Taste of France
A new crêperie brightens Chico’s culinary landscape.
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The out-there guys
Ferrell and Wahlberg are hilarious in strange screwball comedy.
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Scary funny
John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill and Marisa Tomei in creepy-funny triangle.
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Dinner for Schmucks
A quick and easy nugget of film goodness or badness.
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The Kids Are All Right
A quick and easy nugget of film goodness or badness.
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