Head Start program for migrant farmworkers facing changes in growing season
A young girl wakes up from a nap in the main class room at Encanto Migrant and Seasonal Headstart; Credit: Grant Slater/KPCC Luz Maria Hernandez struggled as she made the half-mile walk on a 94 degree day from her home to her children’s preschool. Not so much from the heat, but from the worry about how her family will survive once the Head Start program closes for the year. "We are suffering a lo
Bill would make new school standardized tests 'practice'; eliminate public reporting requirements
Many L.A. Unified students will be taking the new test on iPads.; Credit: by Lexie Flickinger via Flickr A bill that would jump start California's move to new standardized tests - and relax public reporting - is set to go before the state Senate next week. AB 484 would encourage school districts to offer the new exams, based on new standards called the Common Core. But the tests would be practice
The only frog dissections PETA wants in LA Unified schools are virtual ones
A screenshot from iPad app Frog Dissection, which PETA is offering to LAUSD for free as it argues for using the app over doing actual dissections.; Credit: Emantras With the Los Angeles Unified School District's push into iPads in schools, animal rights group PETA wants the district to stop dissecting real animals and instead dissect virtual ones. It's offering the district a free app to simulate
Teachers: what would help you serve English learners? Federal government wants to know
Second-grade teacher Vickie Boudouris goes over a worksheet in an English-learner summer school class at the Cordova Villa Elementary School in Rancho Cordova.; Credit: Rich Pedroncelli/AP The federal Department of Education wants to hear from teachers and administrators whose students are English learners on what help they need in educating that tough population. In a notice in the Federal Regis