4 day workweek for schoolsI am glad to hear the discussion starting again.  I emailed Jack O’Connell, the California Superintendent of Education, and he said the following: There are several districts that have specific legislative authority to reduce their minutes and days requirements and operate four-day school weeks, pursuant to California Education Code (EC) 37700. You may view the text of the EC on the California Law Web page at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html (Outside Source).

If you have any questions regarding the four-day school week, please contact Kim Clement, Consultant, School Fiscal Services DIvision, at 916-327-0857 or by e-mail at kclement@cde.ca.gov.  JACK O’CONNELLState Superintendent of Public InstructionMore or less, he did not sound too interested.  

Housing Bill The housing bill appears on its way to becoming law. Host Kai Ryssdal asks Nic Retsinas of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies what impact the bill will have on the housing market. If the problem is the number of houses on the market for sale (over built or foreclosed), we have a long way to go to fixing the problem.  On my street alone, there are three houses for sale and across a street from my housing area, they are still building more houses, even though there are no buyers.   

IndyMac Failure With the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s takeover of IndyMac Bank, we went to its headquarters as depositors waited in line to withdraw their funds. We took some of their questions and posed them to banking consultant Bert Ely.I don’t know I share the same support of our banking system Bert has.  He refers to a few small banks being in trouble over the past years, well what about the few big banks and corporations that are currently in trouble.