Trouble Ahead For Local School Bonds And Parcel Taxes?
By Mark Baldassare / commentary | EdSource Today | http://bit.ly/1u5a0XR April 29th, 2014 | The elections this year offer the first statewide look at Californians’ willingness to raise revenue for their local schools since passage of Proposition 30, the tax initiative to benefit education that voters passed in November 2012. While it’s too early to know how many local school districts will
“Pruning” in the name of “equity”: NEW PROPOSAL FOR LA SCHOOLS REDUCES ARTS EXPOSURE TO SERVE MORE STUDENTS + smf’s 2¢
Mary Plummer | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/1ftw6PQ Mary Plummer/KPCC Steven McCarthy, Los Angeles Unified's K-12 arts coordinator, outlines a proposed new curriculum plan to a school board committee. April 29th, 2014, 5:46pm :: Los Angeles Unified School District officials proposed a dramatic new vision for arts education Tuesday that would reduce most elementary art programs in
iPAD, Wi-Fi ISSUES INTERRUPT LA SCHOOLS TESTING: “When everyone goes on at once, it overloads it…"
Annie Gilbertson | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/1mZy3FU Maya Sugarman/KPCC April 30th, 2014, 5:30am :: Teachers and students often grumble about end of the year tests,but at the Los Angeles Unified School District, the complaints are mounting: iPads the district purchased to take new state competency tests aren’t getting online. They’re having trouble connecting to
3 stories: ALEX CAPUTO-PEARL ELECTED UTLA PRESIDENT
Alex Caputo-Pearl won elected president of the United Teachers Los Angeles, defeating incumbent Warren Fletcher in a runoff vote. (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times / March 4, 2014) Alex Caputo-Pearl wins runoff election to head L.A. teachers union Howard Blume , LA Times | http://lat.ms/1u4Q3jS April 29, 2014, 1:59 p.m. :: A veteran social
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 4-29-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: SUPREME COURT MAY BOOST FREE-SPEECH PROTECTIONS FOR PUBLIC WORKERS …but be Very Careful!Justices seem likely to rule that a government employee who testifies about corruption cannot be fired. First they'd have to revisit a 2006 ruling limiting those rights. The operative words in the above headline are “MAY” and “SEEM LIKELY” - ‘May’ has a meaning in th