LA Teachers Proposing Online Voting System for Union Elections
An online voting system in Virginia Less than 23 percent of the 40,000 members of United Teachers of Los Angeles cast ballots in the final round of voting for union president in 2011, the union’s last leadership election. Even fewer, 15 percent, voted in the preliminary round. A new, online voting system could change all that, says a group of teachers who are taking their case to the membership. “
LAUSD school meals get healthy makeover by students
KABC features a student culinary education program called “Cooking Up Change” featuring students at West Adams High – part of a program at LAUSD to promote healthy eating.
LA Unified Sees Big Rise in AP Enrollment and Exams
Fifty percent more L.A. Unified students in grades nine through 12 signed up for Advanced Placement courses in the last academic year than the number who did six years before, Superintendent John Deasy said in a press release Wednesday. Nearly 18 percent enrolled in AP courses in biology, calculus, chemistry, English literature, foreign languages, government and history during the 2012-13 school y
Most Teach For America Teachers Will End Up at Charters
Over the next couple of years, Los Angeles will see an influx of more than 700 teachers from Teach for America, a non-profit that recruits college graduates, trains them, and places them in public schools across the country. Most of them will end up in charter schools. Of the 340 teachers teaching in Los Angeles this year, about 90 percent are going to charter schools, according to Lida Jennings,
Morning Read: No LAUSD Layoffs This Year, Says Zimmer
Prop 30 Means a Year of ‘Stabilization’ When the 2013-2014 school year kicks off on Aug. 13, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will begin a year of “stabilization,” board member Steve Zimmer, 4th District, said. With a potentially longer school year and other changes being mulled for the 2014-2015 school year, the district is still benefitting from the passage of Prop. 30, which impo