THREE POLLS SHOW MIXED REPORT CARD FOR EDUCATION REFORMS: Surveys suggest Americans know little about Common Core standards rolling out this fall + 3 Polls
By STEPHANIE SIMON - Reuters, from Politico | http://politi.co/1dtbq64 8/21/13 12:03 AM EDT :: Americans have a decidedly mixed view of the education reforms now sweeping the nation, supporting moves to open up public schools to more competition — and yet wary of ceding too much control to market forces. That’s the message that emerges from a trio of new polls on public education. Taken
MARSHALL TUCK: Former Villaraigosa associate to challenge state Supt. Torlakson
Tuck, who headed Mayor Villaraigosa's education nonprofit, is also taking on the state teachers union, a By Howard Blume, LA Times | http://lat.ms/14jihM5 Marshall Tuck, former chief of Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, confirms that he will run for state school superintendent. (Lawrence K. Ho, Los Angeles Times / October 5, 2010) August 21, 2013, 12:05 a.m. :: Marshall Tuck, the
L.A. School Board Ratfiies Hiring Of Garcetti’S Top Education Aide
By Howard Blume, L.A. Times | http://lat.ms/1dsHW8t Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana was approved as Mayor Eric Garcetti's education advisor. (The J. Paul Getty Trust / August 20, 2013) August 20, 2013, 10:36 p.m. :: The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday ratified the unusual hiring of the mayor’s top education advisor, Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana. Melendez will be brought on as an
School Board Meeting Wrap-up: MORE DISCUSSION THAN VOTES
by Hillel Aron in LA School Report | http://bit.ly/1f29P5l << Whats with That?: LaMotte, Garcia and Galatzan all, oddly, showed up in lime green August 20, 2013 :: What began as a breezy LA Unified School Board meeting on Tuesday turned, not surprisingly, into a long, tedious, sometimes rancorous session, with a host of issues discussed but rarely resolved. A number of key votes were
Protesters Target Lausd Board Meeting Over Plan For Special Needs Students
by Anthony Kurzweil, KTLA-TV | http://bit.ly/1f27HdN 2PM Aug 20 :: LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Protesters targeted the Los Angeles Unified School District’s first board meeting of the new year to voice their anger over the district’s plan to transfer special-education students to traditional campuses. <
MORE MONEY, MORE PROBLEMS? LA Unified wrestles with influx of cash
Annie Gilbertson | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC | http://bit.ly/12p1XYZ Adolfo Guzman-Lopez - A Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education meeting August 21st, 2013, 6:00am :: Several new funding streams are rushing into Los Angeles schools this year. Even though students hit the books again last week, Los Angeles Unified School District leaders are only now finalizing plans on
Lausd Takes Aim At Reforming Prop 39 Charter Law
By Barbara Jones, Los Angeles Daily News | http://bit.ly/183qCRq 8/20/13, 8:32 PM PDT | Updated: 5 AM Aug 21 :: After years of battling over the co-location of charter and traditional campuses, the Los Angeles Unified board took steps Tuesday toward seeking changes to the law approved by voters in 2000 that requires districts to give unused space to the independent schools. After a lengthy,