4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT
Michelle Rhee: TIGER MOM… OR PAPER TIGER MOM …with kids in private school?
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following up on MICHELLE RHEE’S REIGN OF ERROR Education advocate Michelle Rhee fends off accusations Head of a group that advocates using student test scores to evaluate teachers, fends off accusations that she failed to pursue evidence of cheating when she ran the D.C. school system. By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Timeshttp://lat.ms/1796S0y.
BALDWIN PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT WINS #1 SPOT IN CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP
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Deepa Fernandes | kpcc pASS/fAIL | http://bit.ly/ZD0JEJ Maya Sugarman/KPCC Sixth grader, Reyna Ugalde, at Foster Elementary in the Baldwin Park School District, highlights in pink the edges of her handmade polyhedron. April 17th, 2013, 1:00pm :: Recently we reported on two schools in the Baldwin Park school district that have unique programs: a high school that helps teenage parents stay in
SAL CASTRO: Legendary Los Angeles Chicano rights activist-teacher dies at 79
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By City News Service, from the LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/17Mn3SV Sal Castro speaks at CSUN's Aztlan graduation ceremony on May 29, 1999. (Daily News file photo) 04/16/2013 05:24:50 PM PDT :: LOS ANGELES - Former LAUSD teacher Sal Castro, who joined his students in East Los Angeles school walkouts in 1968 to protest inequities in educational opportunities for Latinos and whose efforts
ONE WEEK TO APPLY FOR COMMON CORE TECHNOLOGY JOBS IN LAUSD
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referred in an email from LAUSD |Procurement | Facilities Contracts News : We are Hiring! Are you interested in joining the Common Core Technology Project team? We currently have several openings for certificated and classified positions. Click on a position to learn more about the role and how to apply. Certificated (administrative or teaching credential required): Director, Common
LAUSD CHIEF JOHN DEASY DRAWS FIRE AS HE PURSUES AGGRESSIVE ®EFORM PLAN
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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/131VuoC Sunday, 4/14/2013 11:50:21 AM PDT :: During a recent speech at Loyola Marymount University, John Deasy recalled his promotion from deputy superintendent to chief of Los Angeles Unified two years ago, tasked with turning around a district plagued by failing schools, struggling students and an epidemic of dropouts. "I
TEACHERS: WILL WE EVER LEARN?
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By Op-Ed Contributor JAL MEHTA in the New York Times |http://nyti.ms/156WR5F ^Leigh Guldig April 12, 2013 - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. :: IN April 1983, a federal commission warned in a famous report, “A Nation at Risk,” that American education was a “rising tide of mediocrity.” The alarm it sounded about declining competitiveness touched off a tidal wave of
STATE SCHOOLS CHIEF ANNOUNCES CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL GRAD RATES
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cde PRESS Release | http://bit.ly/111Wna8 April 9, 2013 :: SACRAMENTO—Graduation rates among California's public school students are climbing and dropout rates are falling, with the biggest gains being made among African-American and Hispanic students, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced today. Overall, nearly eight out of 10 students, or 78.5 percent, who
$4.5 BILLION + 3 YEARS = WHAT? Federal School Improvement Grants running out
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Jill Tucker asks from City Insider, an SFGate.com blog http://bit.ly/YkVp8y Here’s the $64,000 question: If the federal government throws $4.5 billion at struggling schools for three years and then stops the flow of cash, does it make a difference? A long-term difference? Do test scores rise? Do teachers stay? Do kids show up to school more? Those who argue for more funding for schools say the
Gladys explains it all for you: AMERICA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS = WALMART’S TRAINING ACADEMIES
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a youtube video animation by John the Dad | 16:02 April 10, 2013 :: Something's not quite right in America's schools and Gladys is going to tell the world just what is wrong! Designed to empower citizens in a democracy, public schools have become Walmart's training academies and Gladys wants an end to it! Be informed and entertained, but most of all get busy, taking back our schools from the
MICHELLE RHEE’S REIGN OF ERROR
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by John Merrow, Taking Note | http://bit.ly/12TSWsC 11. Apr, 2013 :: With the indictment of former Atlanta School Superintendent Beverly A. Hall and 34 other public school employees in a massive cheating scandal, the time is right to re-examine other situations of possible illegal behavior by educators. Washington, DC, belongs at the top of that list. ***** Michelle A. Rhee, America’s
LCFF: APPLES-TO-APPLES COMPARISON OF BROWN’S FUNDING FORMULA
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By John Fensterwald, Ed Source Today - http://bit.ly/XHnP1x April 10th, 2013 :: Twenty-two of the 50 largest districts in the state would receive more money under Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed K-12 funding formula when it’s fully funded, potentially in seven years, while 28 districts would do better if additional money were simply divvied up under the current system, with no reforms,
TWO VIEWS OF THE ATLANTA CHEATING SCANDAL: Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear
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Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall, center, heads towards the Fulton County Jail to turn herself in on Tuesday in Atlanta. Hall is among the 35 Atlanta school system educators named in a 65-count indictment last week that alleges a broad conspiracy to cheat, conceal cheating, or retaliate against whistleblowers in an effort to bolster student test scores and, as a result
‘PAY FOR PERFORMANCE’ PITFALLS: A cheating scandal in Atlanta reveals the dark side of offering incentives.
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Op-Ed in the LA Times by Lynn Stout | http://lat.ms/ZPlzGJ The Atlanta cheating scandal illustrates the dangers of the modern infatuation with incentives and what's called "pay for performance." Above: Atlanta Public Schools defendant Sandra Ward, right, turns herself in at the Fulton County Jail accompanied by her attorney Robbin Shipp, left, on April 2 in Atlanta. (David Goldman / Associated
@ the End of the Day: 98% OF DEASY’S SUPPORTERS LIKE HIM AND 90% OF HIS DETRACTORS DON’T
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smf: April 11, 2013 :: Today the bought-and-paid-for ®eformers released a survey [http://t.co/wlUgYS4uMd] and the Teacher’s Union released a poll [http://t.co/eKV7K7waef] dealing with their respective/disrespective opinions of Superintendent Deasy’s superintendency. Both are essentially hogwash, damp dry from the spin cycle; as unscientific as a alchemist at a necromancers convention – and
LAUSD SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS CUT AGAIN
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Mary Plummer | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/12OQofn Ashley Myers-Turner/KPCC April 11th, 2013, 4:14pm :: LAUSD's summer enrichment programming, which features free art, drama and music activities for elementary and middle school students, will be reduced again this summer. The Los Angeles Unified School District announced today that funding limits are forcing it to reduce
TEACHERS VOTE NO CONFIDENCE IN SUPT. DEASY, The Times, Daily News and UTLA weigh in
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Teachers vote no confidence in Supt. Deasy UTLA members lack confidence in LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy By Howard Blume, LA Times | http://lat.ms/Zdc7dd April 11, 2013, 5:20 p.m. :: Los Angeles teachers overwhelmingly expressed “no confidence” in L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy in the first vote of its kind
LAUSD REFORM AGENDA GETS HIGH MARKS FROM CIVIC GROUPS (ALIGNED WITH LAUSD ®EFORM AGENDA) + Deasy tweet-tweet-tweets!
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- or - you always get an “A” when you do your own report card! By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/12O51jd 04/11/2013 01:48:05 PM PDT :: A new coalition of civil rights groups, led by the United Way, released a poll today showing strong support for reforms taking place in Los Angeles Unified and calling for an even more aggressive approach to improving student
EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE SECTORS UNITE FOR SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS
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National Group Calls on Congress to Release Operations Funds NASBC Press Release For Immediate Release: April 10, 2013 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nearly 75 state and district school superintendents, principals, and other school officials from across the nation today joined the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC) in calling on Congress to support school-based health
‘IF YOU DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT MARTINEZ'S WORK AS AN LAUSD BOARD MEMBER, MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE THERE ISN'T MUCH TO KNOW.’ - Steve Lopez, out-of-context
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smf: Here’s the context: THE GREUEL-GARCETTI CONUNDRUM: Here's why two San Fernando Valley voters have switched allegiances, and why a third is still pondering. By Steve Lopez, LA Times columnist | http://lat.ms/YfpMNH With the election approaching, some high-information voters are changing their minds about who should run City Hall. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times / February 5, 2013