4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT
CHILDREN’S ORAL HEALTH CARE: Not this year. Maybe next year? …but on the cheap!
Dental disease is the leading factor in school attendance and is critical to academic performance among low-income students – so lets not provide the ‘essential benefit’ next year (even to kids with insurance) …and let’s cut reimbursement when we do! by smf for 4LAKids News smf: August 16, 2013 :: Over the past year I have participated with various children's oral health advocates in the
Ab 420: Gov. Brown Urged To Restrict Suspensions For ‘Willful Defiance’
By Stephen Ceasar, LA Times | http://lat.ms/144LcDv Civil rights leaders are encouraging Gov. Jerry Brown to support legislation that would ban expulsions and restrict suspensions for "willful defiance" in California schools. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times / January 24, 2013) August 15, 2013, 5:19 p.m. :: Civil right leaders from across the country sent a letter this week to Gov. Jerry
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LACK OF TRANSPARENCY …is there an app for that?
By smf for 4LAKidsNews August 15, 2013 :: On Wednesday morning the LAUSD Bond Oversight Committee met. Part of the discussion was about the committee’s very-real concerns about the LAUSD Common Core Technology Project – the District’s iPads for Everyone initiative - and the speed, communication and cooperation between the BOC and LAUSD in the process. The program is 100% bond funded. The
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Brown Administration, School Leaders Launch Special Ed Overhaul
By Tom ChorneauSI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources http://bit.ly/1eLoqBU Thursday, August 15, 2013 :: With the cost of special education soaring in California even as academic outcomes fall short of national averages, key members of the Brown administration are organizing plans to overhaul how instructional services are delivered to students with disabilities. Architects of the proposal
Head Start Limiting Enrollment, Cutting Programs As Sequester Kicks In
By Lillian Mongeau, EdSource Today | http://bit.ly/16MqzdL August 14th, 2013 | Thousands of children across the state are likely to be shut out of preschool in September as the federal sequestration cuts to Head Start take effect The across-the-board reductions to large portions of the federal budget were triggered in March, when Congress failed to reach an agreement on balancing the budget
Aquino Sees Deeper Thinking But Falling Scores With Common Core
Brenda Iasevoli – LA School ®eport | http://bit.ly/126sQRo Aug 14th, 2013 @ 08:14 am › :: Five years ago, as Jaime Aquino was leaving his post as chief academic officer of Denver public schools, a reporter asked him his thoughts on how to improve public education. His response: national standards, coupled with national assessments. But Aquino told the reporter, “I will never see this in my
MATT DAMON: “I don’t know where I would be today if my teachers’ job security was based on how I performed on some standardized test. I sure as hell wouldn’t be here. I do know that.”
By Matt Damon, from the Washington Post | http://wapo.st/1eKTXUx smf: Aug 14, 2013 :: Following is a speech that actor Matt Damon gave two years ago, on July 30, 2011 to thousands of teachers, parents and others who attended the Save Our Schools march on the Ellipse near the White House to protest the Obama administration’s education policies that are centered on
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State High Court Rules Schools Must Provide Insulin Shots For Diabetic Students
By Jane Meredith Adams | EdSource Today | http://bit.ly/13yaTbK August 13th, 2013 :: Schools with diabetic students – that would be nearly every public school in California – received a mandate from the state Supreme Court on Monday to provide students with the insulin shots they are entitled to under the Americans with Disabilities Act, regardless of whether a nurse is on
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Letters: WHY ARE TEST SCORES FALLING?
Letters to the Editor of the LA Times | http://lat.ms/18mOHES Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. John Deasy said he didn't know how to make sense of California's falling student test scores. (Los Angeles Times) Re "State sees a surprise drop in test scores," Aug. 9 John Rogers, a professor in UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, is right: There shouldn't be too