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4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT
LAO Report: The 2013-14 Budget - CALIFORNIA’S FISCAL OUTLOOK
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…your rose-colored-glasses are located in a compartment under the center armrest. From the 11/20 CCSA email to their members: The Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) released its annual Fiscal Outlook last week, updating its projections on the state’s fiscal situation. With the passage of Propositions 30 and 39, the LAO reports that “the budget situation has improved sharply”
Poll: PROP 30 DREW SUPPORT FROM YOUTH, MINORITIES
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By Isha Kawatra · Daily Trojan | http://bit.ly/RQXKqg Nov 19. 2012 at 10:59 pm :: In the recent election, California’s Proposition 30 to increase funding for public education and other state services passed by a narrow 54 percent majority vote. According to a USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll released Sunday, the initiative, sponsored by Gov. Jerry Brown, passed because of overwhelming
The privatization of the University of California: THE FIGHT TO SAVE EDUCATION MUST CONTINUE
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Op-Ed By Elana Eden and Margaret Hardy in the Daily Californian - the student-run newspaper of U.C. Berkeley | http://bit.ly/S8bYEM Tuesday, November 20, 2012 :: Lately, my friends have been asking me: “Proposition 30 just passed… so why mobilize?” In the relief following a narrow escape from a 20.3 percent fee hike, it seems like a reasonable question. As the pre-election panic subsides and
DUNCAN SKETCHES OUT SECOND-TERM AGENDA, says NCLB waivers “make no sense”
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By Michele McNeil, Education Week | http://bit.ly/TdIoxE November 16, 2012 2:20 PM - Savannah, Ga. :: In his first major postelection remarks, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that he will use his second term to continue to leverage education improvement at the state and local levels, with a new emphasis on principal preparation and evaluation. And, he made clear that if Congress
CAMPUS CUISINE: Serving up the exceptions and the challenges …but not the acorn squash
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L.A. Unified student stores feed appetite for alternative lunches The more than 160 student stores on L.A. Unified campuses have more autonomy than cafeterias in what they offer, and provide a boost to schools' slashed budgets. By Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/Q4lLfi Schools eat up challenge of new federal nutrition
TEACHERS UNIONS: Scourge of the Nation?
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by Bruce D. Baker School Finance 101 Data and thoughts on public and private school funding in the U.S. | http://bit.ly/SWX9Cg Thank you to @DianeRavitch Are Teachers Unions Bad for Education? http://wp.me/p2odLa-2WW for bringing this to 4LAKids attention! smf: Note that the graphs below demonstrate that the stranglehold CTA + teacher’s unions have in Sacramento
This just in: PASADENA CHARTER FIRE, CORTINES SEX HARRASSMENT LAWSUIT UPDATE
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Fire destroys Pasadena charter school building City News Service from Daily News | http://bit.ly/T9KYWj 11/17/2012 09:58:03 AM PST :: PASADENA -- A fire destroyed one building at a charter school in northwest Pasadena today [Saturday].Firefighters were sent to Opportunities for Learning Day Care Charter School at 456 W. Montana St. at 5:45 a.m. They had the fire out within 45 minutes, Lisa
EDUCATION GOALS: : From Survival to Excellence and Equity
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Themes in the News by UCLA IDEA Week of Nov. 13-16, 2012 | http://bit.ly/TQBEnK 11-16-2012 :: Supporters of California’s public education are adjusting to a novel educational and emotional landscape: Proposition 30, and the public support that propelled its victory, has broken a long, dreary spell of crises and precipitous funding cuts. The state has a long way to go before it arrives at
UTLA Tuesday Talking Points: VICTORY FOR SCHOOLS
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November 13, 2012 LATEST NEWS AND ISSUES | http://bit.ly/SCw1bd 1. Voters stand with us to pass Prop 30 and defeat Prop 32: Prop. 30 does not solve all of our schools’ fiscal problems but it begins to repair the damage done by years of budget cuts. This victory paves the way for a full school year for 2012-13 and the cancellation of furlough days. On Prop 32, voters saw through the deceptive
GATES FUNDED HARVARD STUDY EVALUATES TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS IN LAUSD AS MEASURED BY STUDENTS’ STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES IN MATH
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►NEW L.A. TEACHERS TOO OFTEN PLACED WITH NEEDIEST STUDENTS, STUDY FINDS By Teresa Watanabe, LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/TWfwc3 November 16, 2012 | 5:38 pm :: A new study has found that inexperienced teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are disproportionately more likely to be assigned to lower-performing math students, perpetuating the achievement gap. The study also
TEACHERS’ OBSESSION WITH TECHNOLOGY SEE GADGETS WORTH MILLIONS SIT IN CUPBOARDS
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ACROSS THE POND: Millions of pounds (£) of technology is languishing in school cupboards because teachers are being lured into buying the latest gadgets, according to research. By Graeme Paton, Education Editor, The Telegraph (UK) | http://bit.ly/U5lOrG The study was based on an analysis of more than 1,000 research papers on the use of technology in education. Photo: ALAMY 9:03PM
PROP 30 PASSES: Now what?
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STATEMENT FROM SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER BENNETT KAYSER REGARDING BUDGET AFTER PASSAGE OF PROP. 30 by Email from LAUSD Office of Communications RESTORATION OF THE FULL SCHOOL YEAR AND FURLOUGH DAYS — NOW WHAT? AALA Update | http://bit.ly/RZWQsU BENNETT KAYSER Board Member
NEW ASSEMBLY EDUCATION CHAIR SKEPTICAL OF PLAN FOR WEIGHTED FUNDING
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By John Fensterwald, EdSource Today | http://bit.ly/RHEn39 November 15th, 2012 | Any bill to change the way that California funds its public schools will have to go through Joan Buchanan, and that could present problems for Gov. Jerry Brown. Buchanan is the new chair of the Assembly Education Committee, and, as she made clear in a lengthy interview with EdSource Today (see transcript following
YALE UNDERGRAD DATA GEEKS SET SIGHTS ON SCHOOL REFORM …using iPads + plain white paper
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Online survey company Panorama Education’s business has exploded, spurred mainly by a contract with the Los Angeles Unified School District. by Thomas MacMillan | The New Haven (CN) Independent | http://bit.ly/XJ6nrS Nov 13, 2012 11:30 am :: With a few taps on an iPad, a New Haven principal may soon determine if her teachers are reaching 9th-grade C-student girls as well as
A TABLET IN EVERY BACKPACK?: Supt. Deasy wants to give each L.A. Unified student a high-tech device. But his plan needs work.
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LA Times Editorial | http://lat.ms/TNbgLz Supt. John Deasy is seen chatting to students at the Hilda L. Solis Learning Academy on the first day of school. (Los Angeles Times / August 14, 2012) November 16, 2012 :: Good for the committee that oversees bond expenditures for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Someone had to slow down Supt. John Deasy's headlong rush to put a tablet
Report from the second candidate forum in the second school board district: MONICA GARCIA STILL MISSING
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by smf for 4LAKidsNews 16 November :: There are now eight declared candidates for school board from school board district #2. Seven of us braved LA traffic, the darkness of night and the slight chance of scattered showers last night to attend a well attended community forum in the Pico Union/Koreatown community. Thank you to the Hosts and Sponsors and Organizers. The District 2 Neighborhood
Tonight in Pico-Union: LAUSD DISTRICT 2 CANDIDATE FORUM
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6pm 2845 West 7th St Will she be there this time?
SUPERINTENDENT JOHN DEASY'S $17.5M REQUEST FOR COMPUTER TABLET FUNDS NIXED
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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/PWeQVs 11/14/2012 9:34:59 PM PST :: The panel that oversees spending of Los Angeles Unified's bond revenue on Wednesday refused Superintendent John Deasy's request for nearly $17.5 million to jump-start the purchase of computer tablets for every student. The Bond Oversight Committee voted 7-3 for the plan, but that was one vote
NEXT YEAR’S STATE BUDGET DEFICIT THAT COULD BE AS HIGH AS $16 BILLION IS LATEST THREAT TO SCHOOLS, EVEN WITH THE PROMISE OF PROP 30. Tax collections this year nearly $400 million below projections.
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By Kimberly Beltran - SI&A Cabinet Report | http://bit.ly/REe0ek Tuesday, November 13, 2012 :: School administrators statewide are already making plans to restore positions and programs in the wake of Proposition 30’s landmark passage last week. But around the Capitol, attention has turned to the annual revenue forecast, due from the non-partisan Legislative Analyst this week, that also
LAUSD SUPT. DEASY DELAYS PLAN FOR TABLET COMPUTERS + smf’s 2¢
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by Howard Blume LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/TIJAaJ Photo: L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy, shown in September, is pushing to provide tablet computers for all students. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times November 14, 2012 | 3:24 pm :: The group that oversees school-construction bond spending fell short of approving money to buy tablet computers for students in the Los Angeles