Rally to keep LA Unified school open despite fewer students
Another LA Unified school is under threat of closing. The Academy of Environmental and Social Policy (ESP) is hosting a Back to School/Save our School event tonight to help fend off efforts to shut it down or relocate it because of shrinking enrollment, As one of the district’s Partnership for Los Angeles schools, it is affiliated with Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights, on the campus of the E
Former LAUSD chief: bonds weren’t meant for iPads
Via KPCC | By Annie Gilbertson William Johnston, who was superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District during the 1970s, is urging officials to stop using bond funds to buy iPads – leading an oversight committee to take up the issue Thursday. “I believe the current purchase of iPads with school bonds is illegal,” Johnston said in a letter addressed to the chairman of the district’s bon
LA Unified getting $6.8 million in latest round of Prop 39 funds
LA Unified, the second-largest school district in the country, is getting the largest amount of any school district in California in the latest round of funds from Prop 39, the 2012 California Clean Energy Jobs Act. The measure makes changes to corporate income taxes, providing $550 million annually for five fiscal years beginning with the 2013-14 fiscal year for job creation initiatives. The reci
Misunderstood election rules upsetting UTLA candidates
Alex Caputo-Pearl Recent campaign appearances by Alex Caputo-Pearl at schools around LA Unified have ignited a dispute among candidates for UTLA offices who say election rules — such as they are – are being applied unfairly. The conflict has also brought into focus how misunderstood the rules seem to be. The source of the infighting is what some candidates perceive as their right to campaign at s
Morning Read: A new attempt at a CA teacher dismissal bill
State lawmaker makes new bid to change teacher dismissal rules A state lawmaker introduced a bill Wednesday that would attempt to streamline the process for dismissing California teachers accused of misconduct. The proposed bill by state Sen. Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) also would strive to make the dismissal process less expensive. Recent attempts to change rules have wilted under opposition from te
2-26-14 LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD
LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District): Morning Read: LAUSD music instruction to be cut in halfTeachers: LA schools’ arts budget ‘a step in the wrong direction’ A plan by the Los Angeles Unified School District to cut the time elementary school children are taught orchestra in half is angering teachers – many of whom learned about it only after