Science Teacher’S Suspension Spurs Petition Drive
Cortines School's Greg Schiller was removed by L.A. Unified after two students' Science Fair projects were deemed to resemble weapons. By Howard Blume | LA Times | http://lat.ms/1gNU4zb Also see: IN TEACHER JAIL: by Gerald and Esther Schiller in 4LAKidsNews | “Our son is in jail. But there are no bars or armed guards, or wardens. And he does go home to his wife each afternoon. Our son is
Career Tech & Ag Ed: LEG PANEL REJECTS LOCAL CONTROL OVER SPECIALIZED ED PROGRAMS
by Kimberly Beltran SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet http://bit.ly/1i2WuP9 April 9, 2014 (Calif.) :: The Brown administration asserts that agriculture education and career technical training for high school students will receive greater focus – and continued funding – if state money for these programs is rolled into the governor’s
The Reed Case: L.A. UNIFIED SETTLES LAWSUIT OVER LAYOFFS
The agreement will provide $60 million in raises, services and staff at 37 campuses, but doesn't address whether seniority should be the basis of layoffs. By Howard Blume, LA Times | http://lat.ms/1endsbU A student passes by a mural of President Obama at Markham Middle School. The lawsuit was launched after layoffs in 2009 at Markham, Gompers and Liechty middle schools. (Christina
YESTERDAY’S LAUSD BOARD MEETING: The headlines say it all + smf’s 2¢
LAUSD outlines plan to spend $837 million on disadvantaged students Los Angeles Times :: April 8, 2014, 8:35 p.m.. Disadvantaged students in L.A. Unified stand to benefit from a multimillion-dollar infusion for more tutoring, counselors, English language coaches, nurses, librarians and other support under a budget plan presented Tuesday ... Los Angeles Unified's draft
L.A. Times editorialist: “WHY MY FAMILY IS OPTING OUT OF THE COMMON CORE TESTING” + smf’s 2¢
By Karin Klein, LA Times editorial writer | http://lat.ms/1qjzUnV Students at Sage Hill School, a private school in Newport Beach, take the PSAT. (Los Angeles Times /April 8, 2014) April 8, 2014, 11:47 a.m. :: Sixteen consecutive years of the state's standardized testing are now under my belt, all of them spent covering the accountability program as a journalist, as well as having one or
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 4-8-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: In Teacher Jailby Gerald and Esther Schiller, from an email circulating widely Our son is in jail. But there are no bars or armed guards, or wardens. And he does go home to his wife each afternoon. Our son is in “teacher jail.” For those who may be unaware of this bizarre institution, “teacher jail” is the name applied (with no affection) to what the