Vergara sisters recall teachers who inspired them to join lawsuit
Beatriz and Elizabeth Vergara, student-plantiffs in Vergara vs. California Beatriz and Elizabeth Vergara, sisters at the center of a state lawsuit in their name, Vergara vs. California, took the witness stand today, describing chaotic classrooms with inattentive and hurtful teachers in their middle school. The sisters, who now attend high school at Cesar Chavez Learning Academies, an LA Unified sc
Watch Now: Livestream coverage of today’s LAUSD Board Meeting
A heavy agenda for today’s LA Unified School Board meeting. Expected to get some attention is a report by board member Steve Zimmer on the role of a ‘caretaker’ appointee to temporarily take the seat recently vacated by the unexpected death of Marguerite LaMotte late last year. LA School Report, is there live NOW. Check us out on Twitter @laschoolreport To access, click: LIVESTREAM LAUSD For meeti
In race to run powerful teachers union: ideology up for grabs
As campaigning begins in earnest at United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), the second-largest teachers union in the country, the election for the presidency could be as much about ideology as which candidate has more foot-soldiers. The union has shown signs of deep fracture lately, and with just 20 percent of the union’s 35,000 members expected to vote, the winner’s message will have to capture the v
Morning Read: Wifi upgrades push iPad cost to $1.3 billion
LA schools’ wifi networks to cost about $800 million The Los Angeles Unified School District’s board is scheduled to green light $66 million in wifi upgrades Tuesday, bringing the total reported costs of wifi upgrades need for its iPad proposal to $795 million. With that, iPad and wifi costs together would exceed $1.3 billion if the program is expanded to all district schools. KPCC LAUSD responds
2-10-14 This Week in LA - School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District)
LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District): Zimmer’s plan for District 1 vacancy facing a big voteThe LA Unified school board has an unusually long agenda for its monthly meeting on Tuesday, 39 items plus a handful of reports and updates. Each has consequences but few of them carry the import and emotional impact of Steve Zimmer‘s proposal to fill