4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT
GREEN DOT @ LOCKE: When at first you don’t succeed, reconstitute and reconstitute again – or - The reconstitutions will continue until the morale improves!
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Alert the Uh-oh Squad: The miracle takeover of Locke High by Green Dot – celebrated in The New Yorker, The LA Times and the 2011 novel book Stray Dogs, Saints and Saviors – wasn’t all that miraculous after all! Green Dot charter group to reorganize Locke High Green Dot hopes the changes will counter the slumping academic performance of incoming
PARENT TRIGGER PULLED ON LAUSD II: P-Rev strikes again!
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SEE: PARENT TRIGGER PULLED ON LAUSD - 24th Street Elementary School the target of new parent petition Parents demand charter in LAUSD’s first parent trigger campaign --Teresa Watanabe , LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/UAIG1A Photo: Nearly 100 parents presented petitions Thursday demanding change at their low-performing 24th Street Elementary School to Los Angeles Unified Supt. John
HEBREW-ENGLISH CHARTER SCHOOL IN VAN NUYS APPROVED BY LAUSD + smf’s 2¢
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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer | LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/13IfyJL 1/15/2013 08:05:27 PM PST :: A proposed Hebrew-English charter school in Van Nuys won the approval Tuesday of the LAUSD board, which also OK'd the renewal of two landmark charters and the conditional approval of a third. Lashon Academy plans to open in July near Vanowen Street and Hayvenhurst Avenue, operating a
LA GORDA DREAMS BIG: Monica’s Big Big Billboard
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by Scott Johnson, reblogged from Mayor Sam’s Sister City | http://bit.ly/WK8AOb The "Gorda Boo Boo Dream Big Billboard" on El Sereno's Huntington Drive, within Garcia's LAUSD District Two boundaries …and just up the street from Academia Semillas, La Gordas favorite underperforming charter school – run by one of her campaign donors. Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Monica Dreams Big .......... more »
PARENT TRIGGER PULLED ON LAUSD
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24th Street Elementary School the target of new parent petition By Brandon Lowrey, from the Huffington Post |http://huff.to/11zVJFY photo from LA School Report 1/15/2013 10:27 pm EST :: LOS ANGELES, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Parents at an underperforming Los Angeles elementary school are seeking to wrest control from the nation's second-largest school system a week after parents in a rural
THE CRENSHAW RECONSTITUTION
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L.A. Unified to overhaul struggling Crenshaw High Calling Crenshaw the worst in L.A. Unified, Supt. John Deasy gets the green light to turn the landmark campus into three magnet schools. By Howard Blume and Stephen Ceasar, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/V8fOl3 Shruti Purkayastha, left, and Carla Gonzalez lead a rally protesting L.A. Unified's plans to overhaul Crenshaw High. (Michael
Briefly – POLL: STUDENT ENGAGEMENT WANES IN LATER GRADES
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from ASCD SmartBrief: A recent Gallup poll of 500,000 students in 37 states finds that with each year they progress in school, students are less engaged -- with just 4 in 10 high-school students reportedly engaged, down from 8 in 10 in elementary school, Ellen Wexler writes in this guest blog post. Among the possible reasons cited for the decline is the increased focus on
STILL NEED A FLU SHOT? Here's a list+schedule of LAUSD clinics
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from LAUSD District Nursing via LA Daily News twitter LAUSD Flu Shot Schedule by
Today, Tuesday, January 15, QUALITY COUNTS: INVOLVING STUDENTS IN SCHOOL CLIMATE -- an Education Week webinar from 11 AM- Noon PST
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www.edweek.org from Fitzwire SEE: CALIFORNIA DROPS TO 49th IN SCHOOL SPENDING IN ANNUAL ED WEEK REPORT: By John Fensterwald, Ed Source Today | http://bit.ly/ZRMuLO Student behavior and attitudes are critical to a school's climate and academic success, but often students aren't involved in school improvement planning. Emerging research shows that getting students to buy in to their school
CALIFORNIA DROPS TO 49th IN SCHOOL SPENDING IN ANNUAL ED WEEK REPORT
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By John Fensterwald, Ed Source Today | http://bit.ly/W4FZny January 14th, 2013 | California tumbled two more spots, to 49th in the nation in per-pupil spending, in Education Week’s latest annual Quality Counts report, released last week. The ranking, which includes Washington, D.C., and the 50 states, covers spending in 2010 and thus doesn’t include the impact of higher taxes that voters
UCLA STUDY POINTS TO IMMEDIATE HEALTH RISKS POSED BY CHILDHOOD OBESITY
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Stephanie O'Neill| 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/VH4BGs MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images - A cafeteria worker supervises lunches at the Normandie Avenue Elementary School in South Central Los Angeles. A new study from UCLA links childhood obesity to numerous related health problems. Listen Now [56 sec] | Download January 14th, 2013, 3:15pm :: A new study from UCLA suggests that obesity among
PARENTS PLAN PROTEST OF DEASY’S PLANS FOR CRENSHAW HIGH SCHOOL
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Vanessa Romo | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC | http://bit.ly/WHn8ya Nick Ut/AP January 14th, 2013, 3:52pm :: After months of uncertainty, the future of Crenshaw High School will likely be decided at Tuesday's monthly L.A. Unified school board meeting. The board will vote on whether to approve Superintendent John Deasy’s plan to convert the high school into three separate magnet schools or
LAUSD SUPERINTENDENT JOHN DEASY WARNS SUSPENDING STANDARDIZED TESTS WOULD HURT AT-RISK STUDENTS
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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/V6vF3A 1/14/2013 06:44:52 PM PST :: Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy has fired off a letter to the California schools chief, protesting plans to suspend many standardized exams next year while the state develops a new system of computer-based tests. In a two-page letter dated Friday to Superintendent Tom Torlakson,
TO LOCK CLASSROOM DOORS OR NOT: After the Newtown and Taft shootings, educators in L.A. debate whether teacher transparency or school security is paramount.
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●●smf: School security is paramount …but the question poses a false dichotomy. By Stephen Ceasar and Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/10uEPcv Students at Taft Union High School near Bakersfield after a campus shooting last week. (Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times / January 10, 2013) January 13, 2013, 10:08 p.m. :: Behind a locked classroom door, a Los Angeles third-grade
After Miramonte: LAUSD’s TAMAR GALATZAN, UTLA CHIEF WARREN FLETCHER LOOK AT REFORMING SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING TEACHERS
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…but not together. By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News |http://bit.ly/UHJvnn Students are escorted to a waiting bus as they leave Miramonte Elementary school after classes Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 in Los Angeles. Veteran Miramonte Elementary school teacher Mark Berndt, 61, was arrested Monday, Jan. 30, on charges of lewd conduct with 23 children after a film processor gave police
School Discipline Policy: TRAUMA-SENSITIVE SCHOOLS ARE BETTER SCHOOLS
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Huffington Post | http://huff.to/W19CGh This article by June Ellen Stevens appeared in the Huffington Post on June 26th and 27th of 2012 . The first time that principal Jim Sporleder tried the New Approach to Student Discipline at Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, he was blown away. Because it worked. In fact, it worked so well that he never went back to the Old Approach to Student
EDUCATION AND ITS DANCE WITH POLITICS
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Editorial in the Lompoc Record | http://bit.ly/WAecdR January 11, 2013 12:00 am :: We’ve made no secret of our belief that California’s various levels of education are in trouble, some more deeply than others. To be absolutely fair, the same could be said for public education in many states across America, but in California’s case the problems are especially worrisome. There was a time in
“YOU DON’T FIX EDUCATION BY LOWERING THE BAR. YOU DO IT BY LIFTING THE KIDS.”
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Florida and Virginia have adopted new academic standards for students based on race and ability. These states used their federally-granted NCLB waivers to create separate and unequal performance standards for their black, white, Hispanic, Asian and disabled children. In Virginia, in order to pass the standardized math exam, an Asian student has to get an 82 percent. a Latino student has to get
KNOCKING AT THE COLLEGE DOOR: New Report Projects High School Graduating Classes Will Be Smaller, More Diverse
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International Business Times | http://bit.ly/11kVheq BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 8th edition of Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates, released today by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), indicates that the population of U.S. high school graduates is entering a period of modest decline after nearly two
GOVERNOR’S PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 2013-2014
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“Under this budget, K‑12 school districts will see an increase in funds. School districts serving those students who have the greatest challenges will receive more generous increases — so that all students in California have the opportunity to succeed. This budget also focuses more responsibility and accountability on those who are closest to our students.” From the Governor’s