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SOUTH LA SCHOOLS TEAM UP TO FIGHT RECONSTITUTION
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By Vanessa Romo, KPCC Pass-Fail | http://bit.ly/PZTTGL “Reconstitution and turn around never works. Only fresh squeezed works-- there is $10 billion in failed turn around work nationally. That would be a lot of new high quality schools at $500k a piece.” - former LAUSD school board president/Charter school champion Caprice Young
POLICE PEPPER SPRAY BREAKS UP FIGHT AT NARBONNE HIGH SCHOOL
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A fistfight between two girls that drew a crowd of onlookers ends abruptly when a school police officer shoots pepper spray into the air, forcing 47 students to seek medical help, officials say. By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/SHxT14 Students are released from Narbonne High School in Harbor City after 47 of their classmates sought help for respiratory and eye irritation
LAUSD’s TABLET PLAN DOESN’T COMPUTE …and “the legality is somewhat sketchy”
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Supt. John Deasy wants to provide a tablet computer to every teacher and student. But he doesn't have a real plan; it's more like a notion — and that's not enough LA Times Editorial | http://lat.ms/QOyjTZ October 5, 2012 :: Superintendent John Deasy wants to buy every teacher and student in Los Angeles Unified School District a tablet computer within a year or two — 700,000 of the
GRADING TEACHERS: L.A. Youth’s staff writers say there are better ways to evaluate teachers than using students' test scores
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by the LA Youth Teen Staff - From the September Issue of L.A. Youth, the newspaper by and about teens, http://bit.ly/PWCnly At a recent staff meeting, we talked about how schools can determine if a teacher is effective at helping students learn. It came up because the Los Angeles Unified School District wants to use student scores on standardized tests as part of their teacher evaluations. The
IN CHICAGO, THE TEACHERS’ LAST STAND
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Photograph by Michael Hitoshi/Getty Images By Drake Bennett Bloomberg Businessweek. http://buswk.co/PbQvve September 13, 2012 :: In February of last year, Rahm Emanuel was running for mayor of Chicago when neighboring Wisconsin exploded. The state’s governor, Republican Scott Walker, had introduced a budget-repair bill stripping most collective bargaining rights from public sector workers.
VETO PITS CHARTER SCHOOL AUTONOMY AGAINST REDUCED PRICE MEALS
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Joanna Lin California Watch | http://bit.ly/PB1zwF DC Central Kitchen/Flickr October 3, 2012 | Arguing that he did not want to "erode the independence and flexibility" of charter schools, Gov. Jerry Brown last weekend vetoed legislation that would have required charters to provide low-income students free or reduced-price meals. Brown's veto message [PDF] of AB 1594, authored by Assemblyman
“THE TEXAS MIRACLE” v.2.0: EL PASO SUPERINTENDENT PLEADS GUILTY TO PUSHING LATINO STUDENTS OUT
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El Paso Superintendent Pushed Latino Students to Drop Out Posted on Latino Ed Beat by Katherine Leal Unmuth | http://bit.ly/SKudfR October 4, 2012 :: During his time in power, El Paso Public Schools superintendent Lorenzo Garcia sought to identify struggling students who hurt the district’s ratings and then worked to push them out of the system. At a time when efforts to reverse the dismal
FACT CHECK: On education, gains difficult to demonstrate
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By Howard Blume LA Times Politics NOW | http://lat.ms/Re4ddi Mitt Romney and President Obama during their first presidential debate at the University of Denver. (Doug Pensinger / Getty Images / October 3, 2012) This post has been updated, as indicated below. October 3, 2012, 7:59 p.m. :: On education, President Obama correctly noted that his ideas for reform have been drawn from ideas
INGLEWOOD HIGH GRAD TAKES OVER CITY’S TROUBLED SCHOOL DISTRICT
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Kent Taylor, who graduated from Inglewood High in 1982 and was recently an education official in Kern County, steps in to lead the state-controlled district. By Kurt Streeter, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/PT2ZUv October 4, 2012, 2:04 a.m. :: Kent Taylor, superintendent of education in southern Kern County, was selected Wednesday to lead the Inglewood school district — the first major
Fading Dreams: COMMUNITY COLLEGES’ CRISIS SLOWS STUDENT’S PROGRESS + New Law: THOSE RESPONSIBLE HELD UNACCOUNTABLE
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Community colleges' crisis slows students' progress to a crawl Thousands of degree seekers are able to enroll in only one class at a time. Hopes of graduating or transferring wither as years pass. By Stephen Ceasar, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/UhrVLE Cinthia Garcia, 24, was able to register in only a Web design class at Pasadena City College. After years of struggle, she has given up
PARENT COUP: INSIDE THE NEXT PUBLIC EDUCATION SHOWDOWN. Moms in the Mojave Desert are trying to take over an elementary school with the help of some deep-pocketed friends.
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By Caroline Winter Businessweek http://buswk.co/Reokbr Chrissy Alvarado opposes the takeover of Desert Trails - Photograph by Geordie Wood for Bloomberg Businessweek September 13, 2012 :: In Spanish, adelanto means “progress.” That’s exactly what Doreen Diaz and her family hoped for when they moved the 17 miles to Adelanto, Calif., from nearby Hesperia in 2007. The Diazes bought one of
The Presidential Debate: EDUCATION ISSUES BARELY BREAK THE SURFACE
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by Emily Richmond/The Educated Reporter - Commentary on education coverage, writing and a few other things from the Education Writers Association | http://bit.ly/QRRDDh Thursday, October 4, 2012 :: The first presidential debate was peppered with references to education issues, although some of the more controversial topics, such as vouchers and teacher evaluations, barely surfaced. However
An Education: HOW PROP 32’s BACKERS HAVE TRIED TO DITCH PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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by Matthew Fleischer, Frying Pan News: Hot Ideas for a Cold Economy | http://bit.ly/ODbeYU October 2, 2012 :: The billionaire backers of Proposition 32 are an eclectic bunch–from bow-tied Tory parodies like Charles Munger Jr., to Bible-thumping fire-breathers like Larry T. Smith, to old-fashioned oil tycoons like the Koch brothers. Over the years members of this crew have combined to push a
EDUCATION FUNDING REFORM STALLS IN CALIFORNIA
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DAN WALTERS - Sacramento Bee | http://bit.ly/VggqU9 October 02, 2012 - 7:45 am EDT :: There's a tale behind the death of California's proposed school funding allocation overhaul. The measure, Assembly Bill 18, was one of the casualties as Gov. Jerry Brown waded through hundreds of bills from the hectic, final hours of the 2012 legislative session. — Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica, carried
ARNE DUNCAN WOULD STAY ON FOR 2nd OBAMA TERM, TRIES TO PATCH RELATIONS w/TEACHERS, CALLS FOR MOVE TO DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS
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Arne Duncan would stay on for second Obama term Posted by Lyndsey Layton to Washington Post Election 2012 | http://wapo.st/PP6qM1 September 27, 2012 at 3:59 pm :: Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday that he intends to remain in the Obama cabinet if there is a second term. “I’m in it for the long haul,” Duncan said. “I’m staying, unless the president gets sick of me.” Duncan is
LAUSD “RUNNING ON FUMES” GOING INTO NOVEMBER TAX VOTES
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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News from the Pasadena Star News | http://bit.ly/RbgkrD ONLINE: Link to LAUSD PowerPoint about impacts Prop. 30 and Prop. 38 would have on the district 10/02/2012 06:04:12 PM PDT :: Trying to toe the line without crossing over into advocacy, Los Angeles Unified's finance chief on Tuesday outlined the impacts of the two proposed tax-hike initiatives
MIRAMONTE ATTORNEY CALLS FOR MORE AGGRESSIVE MEASURES, CRITICIZES ART
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Did Picasso made him do it …or make kids insensitive? Post-Miramonte, attorney calls for more aggressive measures by Howard Blume, LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/PSOIIu October 1, 2012 | 3:38 pm :: An attorney representing two dozen students urged school officials Monday to take more aggressive action in response to alleged lewd conduct at Miramonte Elementary School. The Los Angeles
Teaching+Learning Artfully: ARTS INTEGRATION FOR DEEPER LEARNING IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
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video and articles from Edutopia/The George Lucas Educational Foundation about the Arts Integration Program at Bates Middle School in Annapolis Md. | http://bit.ly/PHeT3H Critical thinking, risk taking, and collaboration -- along with academics and discipline -- are just some of the areas where Bates Middle school educators report big improvements since integrating the arts across all subject
Art In Public Schools: COULD A MORE CREATIVE CURRICULUM LOWER DROPOUT RATES? + FANNING THE FLAME OF CREATIVITY
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Brianna Sacks | Staff Reporter | Neon Tommy-USC/ Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism|http://bit.ly/Sgx31t September 30, 2012 | 6:04 p.m. PDT :: Where do Los Angeles Unified students go when they have fallen so far behind in high school that they are at risk of not graduating on time, or considering dropping out entirely? (Creative Commons/Parker Michael Knight
TALKS CONTINUE ON TEACHER EVALUATIONS: UTLA remains opposed to tying evaluations to individual AGT/VAM ratings.
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From The September issue of United Teacher | http://bit.ly/SrBsNd 21 September 2012 :: UTLA is in court-ordered negotiations with LAUSD officials over changes to the teacher evaluation system, but no agreement has been reached. The union continues to push back against LAUSD’s proposal to link a percentage of a teacher’s evaluation to his or her individual Academic Growth Over Time score. AGT
di·chot·o·my: VOUCHERS GAIN FOOTHOLD AMONG STATE, LOCAL DEMOCRATS meets RIFT EMERGES IN GOP ON COMMON CORE
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VOUCHERS GAIN FOOTHOLD AMONG STATE, LOCAL DEMOCRATS RIFT EMERGES IN GOP ON COMMON CORE By Sean Cavanagh, Education Week | http://bit.ly/UYAkTq September 18, 2012 :: This year's presidential campaign offers at least one unequivocal contrast on education issues: The Republican candidate supports private school
U P D A T E D: EXPIRED FOOD PRODUCTS BEING SERVED BY WALMART FOUNDATION FUNDED LAUSD BREAKFAST IN THE CLASSROOM + smf’s 2¢
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"So long as there are children who are coming to school hungry, there will be a need for school breakfast programs, and until workers are guaranteed a living wage, there will undoubtedly be hungry kids." — Dana Woldow: Why Walmart loves free school breakfast - Sep. 10‚ 2012 by Robert D. Skeels - Echo Park Patch - Posted on September 27, 2012 at 11:26 pm | http://j.mp/PJTRm5 Expired