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6 stories: WITH PASSAGE OF PROP 30 DEASY TO ASK LAUSD BOARD TO RESTORE SCHOOL YEAR/RESCIND FURLOUGH DAYS
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"There is absolutely zero risk," Deasy said in an interview. - Be afraid. Be very afraid. LAUSD chief seeks to rescind furloughs, restore 180-day calendar By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer LA Newspaper Group/Daily News | http://bit.ly/Qwdm5l 11/09/2012 07:44:53 PM PST :: Just a week after voters approved a package of tax hikes to fund public education, the LAUSD board will
SUPT DEASY TO ASK BOARD TO RESTORE ALL FURLOUGH DAYS & LOST WEEK OF INSTRUCTION
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By Tami Abdollah | KPCC Pass/Fail | 89.3 | http://bit.ly/SRjFPg November 9th, 2012, 9:14am :: After the passage of Prop. 30, Superintendent John Deasy will ask the L.A. Unified school board Tuesday to restore all furlough days and the week of instruction cut from this school year. Now that Proposition 30 has passed, Superintendent John Deasy will ask the L.A. Unified school board Tuesday to
from the L.A. Times editorial page: A BETTER WAY TO GRADE TEACHERS + A SMARTER WAY TO GRADE SCHOOLS
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A better way to grade teachers Effective evaluation requires rigorous, ongoing assessment by experts who review teachers' instruction, looking at classroom practice and evidence of student learning. A smarter way to grade schools Unlike in the rest of the U.S., California's SB 1458 rightly assigns just a portion of student
PROP 30: THE TRIGGER NOT PULLED
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Schools win reprieve from triggers with passage of Prop. 30 By Kimberly Beltran | SI&A Cabinet Report | http://bit.ly/UqOu09 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 :: School administrators are breathing a collective sigh of relief today after a majority of California voters approved Gov. Jerry Brown’s Proposition 30, the $6 billion-a-year tax measure aimed at shoring up depleted school budgets. The
85 Of 106 SCHOOL BONDS PASS, 15 of 25 SCHOOL PARCEL TAXES APPROVED
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School Bonds require a 55% vote and can only be used for construction and capital improvement; Parcel Taxes require 66⅔% voter approval and may be used for general fund operations. Election largess extends to local school bonds too By Kimberly Beltran, SI&A Cabinet Report | http://bit.ly/VMfXcP 15 of 25 School Parcel
4th time the charm?: WASHINGTON CHARTER SCHOOL INITIATIVE HAS SLIM LEAD
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By Linda Shaw Seattle Times education reporter | http://bit.ly/UdmY0h Originally published November 6, 2012 at 9:52 PM | Page modified November 7, 2012 at 6:58 AM :: The charter-school initiative held a slight statewide lead Tuesday in what turned out to be one of the closest statewide races. Initiative 1240 was passing in some of the most populous counties, including Clark, Pierce and
PROP 30: Fielding questions about about retroactive income tax
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By Tami Abdollah | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC | http://bit.ly/ZckgND November 8th, 2012, 4:14pm :: A "Concerned Citizen" wants to know more details on how Prop. 30's retroactive change to income tax affects him. Will he be penalized for inaccurate withholdings? << Royalty-Free/Corbis/Flickr I've received email from a few people concerned about what Prop. 30 means for them. Here's one that
PROP 30 TAX BILLS TO COME SOON: Income tax increases passed by voters on Tuesday will be retroactive to the beginning of 2012. Schools are already making plans.
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By Sharon Bernstein., KNBC=TV | | NBC Southern California http://bit.ly/TPpiyh Jodi Hernandez | Protesters at UC Berkeley make a sign in the wake of the Prop. 30 passage in the hopes of getting rollback tuition rates. Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 | Updated 4:10 PM PST :: The tax-raising ballot initiative that voters approved on Election Day has just been passed, but some Californians will feel
VAST INEQUALITY LURKS BEHIND MIND-NUMBING DATA ON SCHOOL SPENDING
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By Arun Ramanathan in EdSource Today | http://bit.ly/SH4aqZ November 4th, 2012 :: School finance has the power to bring tears to my eyes. Sometimes, when I am reading the latest School Services of California bulletin, I start squinting. Then I start yawning. Then, before I know it, I’m squinting and yawning simultaneously, causing my eyes to water. When I see the words “revenue limit,” I
WHERE DID THE LOTTERY MONEY GO?
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…..in which Boardmember Galatzan attempts to answer the question asked her – and everyone engaged in California School Finance – most. It’s a question of urban legendary proportion. I Googled it today and found it asked in a blog about the Chicago Public Schools; Joyce on waveland concerned about neighborhood What happened to the lottery money, it was set up to help the schools.
FOUR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDUCATORS NAMED ‘2013 CALIFORNIA TEACHERS OF THE YEAR’
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by City News Service with contributions by KCET Staff, from KCET | http://bit.ly/UcMyCr 2013 Awardees: Martin Reisert, I'Asha Warfield, Sebastien Paul De Clerck, Veronica Marquez, and David Goldenberg. November 8, 2012 6:00 PM :: A South Los Angeles elementary school teacher and Tustin high school teacher were among five educators named today as 2013 California Teachers of the Year.
PROP 30 PASSES: What’s next? A retroactive tax? Where’s the money? CSU students get $249 refund
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A series of articles from KPCC/ 89.3 – Southern California Public Radio Prop. 30 winning; what's next for schools, taxes? By Tami Abdollah | Represent blog | http://bit.ly/TvEYo9 November 7th, 2012, 1:21am :: Prop. 30, a measure to increase taxes and stave off nearly $6 billion in education cuts, appeared to be headed for passage as election results trickled in early Wednesday. The measure
TO MAKE BLENDED LEARNING WORK, TEACHERS TRY DIFFERENT TACTICS
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By Katrina Schwartz, KQED Mind/Shift Blog | http://bit.ly/SlGdW9 Erin Scott November 2, 2012 | 11:57 AM | :: By now, most would agree that technology has the potential to be a useful tool for learning. Many schools have invested in some form of technology, whether it’s in computer labs, tablets, or a laptop for every student, depending on their budget. But for many schools, finding
L.A. TEACHERS UNION CALLS FOR RESTORING FULL SCHOOL YEAR
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— Howard Blume | LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/QoPC39 Photo: Union member Mariana Molina holds a Proposition 30 placard at a rally Monday in support of the measure in Panorama City. The L.A. teachers union is calling for the full school year to be restored with the passage of the proposition. Credit: Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images November 7, 2012 | 12:13 pm :: The morning after a state
MESSAGE FROM SUPERINTENDENT DEASY ON THE APPROVAL OF PROPOSITION 30
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http://bit.ly/SDkCZr November 7, 2012 ;:: On behalf of the hundreds of thousands of youth in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), I am tremendously grateful to the voters of California for making the difficult decision to support Proposition 30. It is apparent that the voters are aware of the devastating cuts school districts have taken the past 5 years. They have said enough is
TEACHER ABSENCE AS A LEADING INDICATOR OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: New National Data Offer Opportunity to Examine Cost of Teacher Absence Relative to Learning Loss
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By Raegen Miller; Center for American Progress Press Release | | http://bit.ly/PB5NJo SOURCE: AP/Rob Carr : The costs of teacher absence, both in financial and academic terms, can no longer be borne in silence. Download the report: PDF Download introduction & summary: PDF Read it in your browser:
This just in: MAYOR TONY IS STILL THE EDUCATION MAYOR!
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“Who Knew?” you ask. The answer is: Melanie Lundquist, the enabler-philanthropist who gave Tony $50 million and Patrick Sinclair, Senior Director, Communications and External Affairs of (Mayor Tony’s) Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (PLAS). Together they wrote a fawning puff piece masquerading as an Op-Ed about Tony that concludes: “As Eisenhower said,’Leadership is the art of getting
Race to the Top: A MESSAGE FROM SUPERINTENDENT DEASY
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From: Superintendent John Deasy [mailto:Superintendent_John@LAUSD.NET] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 12:35 PM To: LAUSD_EMPLOYEES@LIST.LAUSD.NET Subject: LAUSD's Race to the Top Message from Superintendent Deasy
Focus 0n 2012 Elections: EDUCATION ISSUES UNDERSCORE ELECTION STAKES AT ALL LEVELS
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FROM PRESIDENTIAL RACE TO STATE INITIATIVES, VOTERS FACE POLICY CHOICES By Andrew Ujifusa and Alyson Klein | Education Week | http://bit.ly/U1jm19 October 31, 2012 :: Education policy and funding—from common standards and college access to the prospect of "doomsday" budget cuts—have been a steady theme in this year's presidential campaign, even as more specific K-12 debates lighted the
Study: "DUAL ENROLLMENT" STUDENTS MORE LIKELY TO ATTEND, GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE
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PR Newswire – http://yhoo.it/RFhB9U BOSTON, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- High school students who take college courses are significantly more likely to attend and graduate from college than peers who do not, according to a study of more than 30,000 Texas high school graduates by Boston-based education nonprofit Jobs for the Future (JFF). JFF's study, Taking College Courses in High
PROP 30 IS ‘TANTALIZINGLY CLOSE’: “For the next few days schools will be less concerned with how they conduct school than with keeping the doors open”
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Themes in the News A weekly commentary written by UCLA IDEA on the important issues in education as covered by the news media | Week of Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2012 |http://bit.ly/R38Hon 11-02-2012 :: Remember when advocates for public schools debated school “improvement” and “reform” and argued over making sure that teachers were well qualified? Those were the good-old days of “curriculum wars” and
L.A. UNIFIED RECEIVES GRANT TO HELP STUDENTS EXPOSED TO TRAUMA
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by Marisa Gerber - LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/Vo2TKv November 2, 2012 | 4:54 pm :: The Los Angeles Unified School District’s mental health department, along with a group of partners, recently landed a $2.4-million grant to work with students exposed to traumatic events. The grant is the latest in an ongoing partnership among the district, UCLA, USC, the Rand Corp. and the National
¿ESTAMOS DISPUESTOS A SER UN CATALIZADOR PARA EL CAMBIO?: Aprobemos la Prop 38 para que Nuestras Escuelas reciban aumentos en fondos anuales por los próximos 12 años
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Heidi Brewington, miembro de la PTA de California y el padre en el LAUSD this article ARE WE WILLING TO BE A CATALYST FOR CHANGE? appears in English here see also: WHAT WILL MY SCHOOL AND MY COMMUNITY GET WHEN PROP 38 PASSES? The question answered with detail for every school and community in LAUSD (in English and Spanish) http://bit.ly/YAwQpE Gandhi dijo una vez: "... Tú debes ser el
WHAT WILL MY SCHOOL AND MY COMMUNITY GET WHEN PROP 38 PASSES? The question answered with detail for every school and neighborhood in LAUSD …and California
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from the Yes on 38 – More Money for our Local Schools Not Sacramento campaign Here’s the answer for the Lincoln Heights/El Sereno Community: Here are the answers for every community in LAUSD: LAUSD NORTH: Arleta Pacoima-Panorama City | Download PDF or Image Canoga Park-Winnetka-West Hills | Download PDF or Image North Hills-Granada Hills-Mission Hills | Download PDF or Image