Selling The Farm An Acre At A Time…
smf writes: Nov. 13, 2013 :: Unreported elsewhere: Last night the LAUSD Board of Education, abrogating/delegating their authority under cover of darkness, approved making the Superintendent the sole+unquestioned decider in where future Prop 39 Charter Schools will be located
L.A. UNIFIED SCHOOLS PLANS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH TRIMMED DOWN iPAD PLAN + smf’s 2¢
A tense vote by sharply divided board allows the $1-billion initiative to continue and imposes additional oversight, including evaluation of impact on student achievement. Tuesday's L.A. Unified board meeting marked the first public appearance of Supt. John Deasy in an iPad debate since the contract process began. He had stayed in the background, on the advice of attorneys, because he
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A tense vote by sharply divided board allows the $1-billion initiative to continue and imposes additional oversight, including evaluation of impact on student achievement. Tuesday's L.A. Unified board meeting marked the first public appearance of Supt. John Deasy in an iPad debate since the contract process began. He had stayed in the background, on the advice of attorneys, because he
Galatzan’s motion is neither debated nor seconded as Garcia leaves room. tweeted from the pressroom - by @howardblume :: “4 insiders: Informed speculation had been that Villaraigosa worked out deal: Deasy gets endorsement to stay; Vladovic censure dies.” [4:41 PM - 12 Nov 13] The Los Angeles Unified School
by Vanessa Romo, LA School Report | http://bit.ly/1dmoitw November 12, 2013 :: The LA Unified school board will grapple with three separate resolutions regarding the district’s ambitious iPad project at its meeting today, but only Monica Ratliff’s proposal has the potential of drastically changing the course of the district’s ed-tech revolution.
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LA SCHOOL BOARD TO VOTE ON FUTURE OF iPAD PROGRAM
Annie Gilbertson | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/1bmMCZj Grant Slater/KPCC - Second graders Mark G. and Brandon C. play educational games on iPads at a charter school in Huntington Park. November 12th, 2013, 6:00am :: The Los Angeles Unified School board will vote Tuesday on whether to put its controversial iPad program on hold - or move forward, although at a slower pace than
LAUSD OFFICIALS CONSIDER COMPETING PLANS FOR 41-BILLION iPAD PROJECT
Openness+Transparency 101: The Superintendent’s Saturday “Midnight Surprise” apparently misses the LA Times’ Tuesday print publication deadline By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/1e1ykkN School board member Monica Ratliff has proposed slowing down and reconsidering a $1-billion plan to provide iPads to every L.A. Unified student and teacher. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles
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Why I Wrote the Nation’s First Parent-Trigger Law CommentaryBy Gloria Romero in EdWeek | http://bit.ly/1gGqjoJ November 5, 2013 :: I wrote the nation's first parent-trigger law. I acted because I understood that education is the civil rights issue of our time and the key to the American dream. I'm the daughter of a mother who attained
BE IT RESOLVED: iPads and the general state of craziness!
A longtime 4LAKids reader, a teacher and teacher-of-teachers, e-mails: Mon, Nov 11, 2013 3:04 pm :: The [teachers union and administrators union] survey results clearly indicate that teachers need much more support and training on the use of the iPads in order to feel comfortable with them in the classroom. Whereas iPads are not a constructivist tool but an informational tool, and
LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS SLOW ROLLOUT OF iPADS AMID SECURITY CONCERNS
By Alex Dobuzinskis/REUTERS, from the New York Times | http://reut.rs/1cMpvxP Published: November 10, 2013 at 8:25 AM ET LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles school district is putting the brakes on a project to give an iPad to each student, a $1 billion initiative that is the largest rollout of its kind in the nation and has been plagued by students hacking the devices' security features. District