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Sunday, March 30, 2014

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 3-30-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:





Common Core Fact Sheet
  smf: Phil Daro, named  above as a staffer of NCEE (National Center for Education and the Economy – Gates, Broad, Apple, Walton – complete list of funders HERE) currently works for Pearson Learning, LLC – and with no apparent conflict of interest whatsoever -  is advertised by Pearson as a developer of the Common Core Standards AND the Pearson Common Core System of Courses. The Pioneer


CENTRAL BASIN WATER DISTRICT DIRECTOR IN LAUSD’s ‘TEACHER JAIL’
By Mike Sprague, Whittier Daily News | http://www.whittierdailynews.com/government-and-politics/20140326/central-basin-water-district-director-in-lausds-teacher-jail Central Basin Municipal Water District director James Roybal during a board meeting at the district’s headquarters in Commerce on March 13. Leo Jarzomb — Staff Photographer 3/26/14, 7:40 PM PDT | COMMERCE  ::   Los Angeles


Los Angeles Says Goodbye To Celes King Iv
30 March 2014  ::  The community, the Greater Community, The City of Angels we aspire to be, bid farewell to Celes King IV at his funeral yesterday morning and afternoon. We celebrated a life well and completely lived – even if cut short. We prayed and wept and laughed and  sang – and learned things we probably should’ve known all along. See:  CELES KING IV, Civil Rights Leader, Community




4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 3-29-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT  HOW A DYSLEXIC NEUROSCIENTIST’S iPAD APP WILL BOOST YOUR KID’S MATH SCORES: A nonprofit demonstrates an effective program for bringing technology into the classroom.By Claire Martin / | TakePart http://bit.ly/O7bIqo (Photography by Larry Hirshowitz) March 28, 2014   ::  On a recent weekday morning, a six-year-