UTLA REACHES TENTATIVE AGREEMENT TO STABILIZE SCHOOLS BY SAVING JOBS AND RESTORING PROGRAMS + Draft agreement
From the UTLA website | http://bit.ly/Mr2UaM Friday, June 08, 2012 :: UTLA reached a tentative agreement today with LAUSD that would stabilize schools and save jobs and programs for the 2012‐13 school year. Jobs and programs saved in all areas Under this agreement, 4,149 full‐time equivalent positions* would be restored. Class sizes and counselor norms will be kept at 2011‐2012 levels.
TEACHERS UNION AND L.A. SCHOOL DISTRICT REACH PACT TO SAVE JOBS: Teachers take 10 unpaid furlough days, school year cut 5 days
-- Howard Blume, LA Times | LA Now | http://lat.ms/MUguGa Photo: Supt. John Deasy. Credit: Bob Chamberlin, Los Angeles Times June 8, 2012 | 6:35 pm :: The Los Angeles Unified School District and the teachers union reached a tentative agreement Friday that would prevent thousands of layoffs in exchange for one year of pay reductions. Under the accord, teachers would lose 10 days of pay and
HORSEY CARTOON: Geezer and Goliath
David Horsey / Los Angeles Times (June 7, 2012) http://lat.ms/K7T3XL
LETTERS: Who should do dental work? + SAT sense +Caring for kids
Letters to the LA Times | http://lat.ms/MqTQCR Who should do dental work? Re "Dentist groups wary of health trend," June 3 June 8, 2012 :: It's time to give priority to dental health needs over the self-interest of professional dental organizations. No amount of scare tactics on the part of the American Dental Assn. can refute the solid evidence that properly trained therapists can perform
DON’T LOWER THE SCIENCE BAR, GOVERNOR
Lifting the state requirement that California high school students take two years of science might save money, but only in the short term. LA Times Editorial | http://lat.ms/KnQOKQ Kelechi Okereke and Andrew Wilde-Price, right, conduct an experiment for an AP chemistry class at Berkeley High. In his budget proposal, Gov. Jerry Brown calls for lifting the requirement for students to take a
Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks …or the Stepford Wives? TRUE NORTH LOGIC: A picture worth 1000 words
smf wrote in the June 3rd edition of the 4LAKids weekly e-newsletter: The teacher evaluation, appraisal and retraining piece in LAUSD has already been contracted out – outsourced – to a company from Utah called TrueNorthLogic (“TrueNorthLogic provides K-12 product solutions that are designed to be easily configured and aimed at bringing an effective educator to every student.’)…a outside vendor
June 28: LUNCHEON TOWN HALL MEETING WITH MOLLY MUNGER
Join Town Hall Los Angeles for an informative lunch meeting with Molly Munger, Co-Director, Advancement Project, on Thursday, June 28th at 11:30 am on the 51st Floor of City National Plaza's Paul Hastings Tower Molly will discuss "Our Children, Our Future," the income tax initiative on the November 6, 2012 ballot, providing a comparative view with the sales tax initiative proposed by
DEASY FLIP-FLOPS ON HEALTH ED: It’s a Graduation Requirement, not an Elective …but it’s optional
By smf for 4LAKidsNews Friday, June 8, 2012 :: In an “informative” (a memo) to the Board of Education [following] Superintendent Deasy drew a very indistinct line in his own shifting sand about how important Health Education is. A month or so ago he proposed – through his surrogate Assistant Superintendent Jaime Aquino – to eliminate Health Ed as a graduation requirement for LAUSD; turning
