Given the Severability Clause, the District Should Have Taken this to Court: On Thursday the school board quietly, before school started, made a huge change to the parcel tax in hopes of warding off a ...

In June the Supreme Court issued a ruling on  the Alameda Unified School District's parcel tax that Superintendent Winfred Roberson acknowledged would impact the pending legal challenges with Measure ...

Borikas Decision Based on Specifities in Alameda Law, Did Not Result in Measure H Being Thrown Out in Its Entirety - Jose Granda is a frequent critic of the Davis Joint Unified School Board and their ...

The Vanguard on Thursday afternoon received a release from Jose Granda, the frequent critic of the Davis School District's parcel tax who ran in an unsuccessful bid for a school board seat last fall. ...

The issue of High School reconfiguration has emerged in the community as a contentious issue.  The school district, as is often the case, has done itself little favor by delivering mixed messages. The ...

Opponents Jose Granda and Thomas Randall have filed a suit, this time in the Yolo County Superior Court, alleging once again problems with the Measure E parcel tax that was passed by 69% of the voters ...

The news is largely good in terms of the budget, but in terms of immediate help for our local schools, the good news is limited to the fact that no more money will be cut from the budget this year. Th ...

Davis will go into the spring, for the first time in a long time, not talking about layoffs or school cuts.  That is the good news, but it was a rough ride last year getting to that point. First, the ...

In 2007, 2008, 2011 and now twice in 2012 the voters in Davis have stepped up to support quality education.  Some people want to suggest that Measure E was a nailbiter.  It wasn't a nailbiter. As Rich ...

By Bill Storm, Ingrid Salim and Greg Brucker  GUEST COMMENTARY - We go public with this blog the day after California voters have approved Prop. 30, and Davis voters have approved Measure E, both meas ...

The Davis Joint Unified School District and the California School Employees Association have reached a tentative agreement, pending ratification by both parties, on a contingency that could mean the r ...

President Justifies Five Furlough Days Amid Budget Crisis if Prop 30 Fails - In an op-ed in the Enterprise today, Frank Thomsen attempted to explain and defend the position of the Davis Teachers Assoc ...

The school district continues to make no apparent progress toward salary concessions, as the board seeks to create a contingency should Proposition 30 be defeated this November.  The loss of Propositi ...

COMMENTARY: Teachers Need to Take the Concessions That Others Have Already Taken - Is there a misperception about the need for cuts and concessions in the community?  A letter to the editor of the Dav ...

On Monday, October 1, 2012, the Davis Vanguard and Davis Media Access (DMA) will be hosting a candidates forum for the Davis School Board candidates to be held in the Harper Junior High Multipurpose r ...

Last spring, the voters of Davis once again stepped up to the plate and approved an extension of the district parcel taxes.  They did so nearly at a 3 to 1 rate.  However, as we warned at the time, pa ...

From the very beginning, the school district was very clear that, while Measure C would close some of the ten million dollar funding gap, it would not cover all of it.  Thus, when the voters passed Me ...

We have spent a bit of time discussing on these pages whether the district ought to ask the voters one more time (or more) if they would approve yet another emergency parcel tax. At the state level, t ...

Last week, the Davis School board did what it never thought it would do - put yet another parcel tax on the ballot.  However, under the best case scenario, the governor's budget provides for flat fund ...

The writing was on the wall last week, the Davis School Board was not going to put the restoration of this year's cuts on the ballot. There were good and solid reasons laid out by Gina Daleiden last w ...