Follow the money: last filing deadline today for LAUSD election
Tonight is the final disclosure deadline for candidates running in the June 3 special election, to fill LA Unified’s District 1 board seat. “There should be updated numbers by midnight from all the candidates,” said a staff member at the City Ethics Commission. Most candidates are filing their required disclosure forms online, which will be available on the Ethics website, here. One candidate, Oma
Only Alex Johnson gets PAC money in school board race
Alex Johnson With the the LA Unified school board special election only four days away, Alex Johnson is the only candidate of seven whose campaign is supported by independent expenditure committees, also known as super-PACS. So far, groups are spending more than $52,000 to get him elected, according to the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. These groups operate separately and are not coordinated
Analysis: How to avoid a school board runoff in 4 easy steps
With seven candidates vying for the vacant LAUSD school board seat in South LA, what would it take to pull ahead of the pack and head off a costly stand-alone runoff? Coinciding with the California statewide primary on June 3, the special election was called to fill the District 1 board seat, left vacant by death last year of longtime member Marguerite LaMotte. We asked Democratic strategist Bill
Kennedy High principal evoking strong feelings, good and bad
Suzanne Blake, Principal of Kennedy High School Teachers at John Kennedy High School in Granada Hills are speaking out against the principal, Suzanne Blake, over what they perceive as an autocratic management style that fractures faculty unity. While Blake has supporters among Kennedy’s 90-plus teachers and staff, the willingness of some teachers to complain suggests that she remains a polarizing
Zimmer: LAUSD ‘culture war’ over co-locations on the west side
Steve Zimmer LAUSD Board Meeting As lawyers figure out where Citizens of the World Mar Vista decides will call home in the 2014-2015 school year, LA Unified board member Steve Zimmer says the charter is likely to encounter the same friction it endured as a co-located school this year at Stoner Elementary if it remains on LA’s west side. “It’s not that it has much to do with CWC specifically,” Zim
Gap in instructional time for CA minority students spurs a lawsuit
Via Los Angeles Times | By Steven Ceasar The state Education Department has ignored its obligation to ensure that all California students receive a minimum level of instructional time, predominantly affecting minorities from low-income families, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday. The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court by the American Civil Liberties Union, Public Counsel and othe
Morning Read: Can new LAUSD board member create change?
South LA to elect a school board member; Can a new face help? South Los Angles residents will vote Tuesday on a new school board member – but their decision will affect students all over the district. A slate of seven candidates are vying for District One – which became vacant last year when Marguerite LaMotte died in the middle of her term. It’s home to the poorest performing schools in Los Angel
5-29-14 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: School construction bond going to voters$9 billion school construction bond moves toward November ballot Appropriations Committee has finally put a dollar figure to a school construction bond measure that it wants to place on the November ballot: $9 billion. Voter approval to issue new 30-ye