California Budget Update + Full Draft Budget
California budget surges to record high from the AP via KPCC/89.3 |http://bit.ly/1eJh2Z5 Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images/ File: Gov. Jerry Brown. January 9th, 2014, 9:42am :: A robust economic recovery and surging revenue propelled by voter-approved tax increases has sent California's general fund spending to a record high, marking a dramatic turn-around from the state's days as
Los Angeles Public Library To Offer High School Diplomas
from the Associated Press | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/1cGkQuh Cathy Cole/flickr Creative Commons AP | January 9th, 2014, 7:10am :: A Los Angeles library plans to take its role as a place of learning a step farther and will start offering residents the opportunity to get an accredited high school diploma. The Los Angeles Public Library announced Thursday that it is teaming up with a private
Us Departments Of Ed & Justice Release School Discipline Policy Guidelines
note: These are joint guidelines from the US Depts of Ed and Justice – and should not be confused with the work of the US Dept of Ed Office of Civil Rights consent decree with LAUSD. The DoE OCR is NOT the same as the Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights (…The ’real’ OCR!) see also: 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: ZERO TOLERANCE LEAVES A MIXED LEGACY OF SAFER SCHOOLS
Utla Response To Lamotte Decision Reflects Internal Divisions
By Howard Blume, LA Times | http://lat.ms/1d3wIHZ Community activist Morris Griffin, right, voices his support for the appointment of Dr. George McKenna to replace Marguerite LaMotte at the Los Angeles Board of Education district headquarters this month. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times / January 7, 2014) January 8, 2014, 3:40 p.m. :: The Los Angeles teachers union was notably absent
First Look: GOV. BROWN UNVEILS PROPOSED STATE BUDGET A DAY EARLY!
clipped from LAUSD INT THE NEWS LA Times Gov. Jerry Brown to propose billions in new spending January 8, 2014, 10:29 p.m. :: SACRAMENTO — When he unveils his new budget plan Thursday, Gov. Jerry Brown will propose billions of dollars in new spending on schools, healthcare, social services and environmental programs as California reaps the benefits of an economic turnaround. http://
Zero Tolerance Leaves A Mixed Legacy Of Safer Schools
by Tom Chorneau | SI&A Cabinet Report | http://bit.ly/1iiKHdY January 08, 2014 :: (N.Y.) Despite a steady decline in juvenile crime since a peak 20 years ago, researchers from the Vera Institute of Justice have compiled a growing body of evidence showing zero tolerance policies haven’t made schools safer or more orderly but may, in fact, promote the opposite. In a policy paper released late
Deasy’s Dozen/’Empanelling the Committed’: SUPERINTENDENT REACHES OUT TO A HAND PICKED COHORT TO ADVISE HIM HOW TO RUN BOARD DISTRICT ONE
Because, as we all know, superintendents step in and run Board of Education offices when they are vacant, and Advisory committees are non publically (sic) formed bodies subject to the Brown Act, and Apparently grammar, spelling and syntax don’t count. Letters posted by KPCC | The rest of the letters can be viewed here. Supt. Deasy creates 'advisory
Impasse/Fail: SCHOOL BOARD, AFTER INEVITABLE GRIDLOCK TIE VOTE FOR APPOINTMENT, DECIDES TO LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE IN AN ELECTION
This looks and smells like Democracy but fails at Leadership and Representation ….and costs $2.5 million. by smf for 4LAKidsNews Jan 8, 2014 :: In the end it was a failure of leadership and consensus building, hampered – I submit – by the very open-meetings law that supposed to insure the fairness of the democratic process. Ultimately an unpopular compromise was hammered out that may
1-7-14 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: LA SCHOOL BOARD TO DEBATE FILLING LAMOTTE’S SEAT – Tonight at 6:15/Live on KLCS Annie Gilbertson | | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/K1BGJP January 6th, 2014, 6:15am :: The board of the Los Angeles Unified School District on Tuesday will discuss how to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Marguerite LaMotte. They'll weigh two options: a