IF YOU GIVE A KID AN iPAD: The ACLU is suing a school district in Massachusetts for letting only low-income kids take home school-issued tablets.
by Annie Baxter Featured in: NPR Marketplace Morning Report for Thursday August 21, 2014 | http://bit.ly/1ljrRJI Brad Flickinger/Flickr Hear Radio Story Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 05:45 :: As iPads and other technologies make their way into more classrooms, unforeseen consequences are also on the rise. There's the need for more IT workers. There's the need for bigger security budgets.
7 stories: A bunch of other California Education News…
from Rough&Tumble 21 August 2014 School superintendent with unusually high compensation fired -- The Centinela school board voted Wednesday to dismiss Supt. Jose Fernandez, who came under the scrutiny of the FBI and Los Angeles County district attorney's office this spring for a compensation package that exceeded $750,000 last year. Sara Hayden in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/21/14 Cal
Gov. Brown Should Spell Out How He’D Fund School Construction
“The state kitty for school building and modernization is dry …. but, for Brown, this is the year for reelection, not school construction.” by George Skelton, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/1v1fg0y L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy attends the first day of instruction at Baldwin Hills Elementary School in Los Angeles last week. It seems Gov. Jerry Brown doesn't like the idea of
Lcap/Lcff: L.A. County Questions Lausd Spening On Poor Children
Alleged “improper calculation” and conflation of Special Ed with Special Needs students in accountability plan By Thomas Himes,Los Angeles Daily News http://bit.ly/1toT0uu Posted: 08/20/14, 7:37 PM PDT :: Los Angeles Unified officials will have to explain how they spent $700 million to help needy children last year, before county education officials approve a proposed three-year plan for
L.A. Unified Teachers Decry New Student Tracking System
Some L.A. Unified schools face packed classes, roaming students as new $20-million student database falters By Stephen Ceasar, LA Times | LA Times http://lat.ms/1ljiKbJ "We don't have anything to gain from exaggerating -- we want the problem fixed," says teachers union President Alex Caputo-Pearl of LAUSD's new student tracking program. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Aug 21, 2014 ::
NORWALK/LA MIRADA TEACHER’S MESSAGE: “Good luck with that!! …but I don't think she was too terribly bad.
forwarded text message from someone in norwalk/la mirada unified 20 August 2014 :: Yes. Ruth Perez is/was the super. Good luck with that!! Apparently, not what I or others perceived to be super "teacher friendly." I can't really speak with a lot of authority. It was a shock when she got hired about 6 years ago. I heard the board wanted her to bust the union. Union did not like her, but I
NORWALK/LA MIRADA SUPERINTENDENT’S MESSAGE: “The District is about to embark on an exciting year with so many positive changes” …oh …and I’m outta here!
Norwalk/La Mirada Superintendent’s Message by Ruth Perez, in DowneyBeat.com | http://bit.ly/1ogAP4R Wed, Aug 20, 2014 :: The lazy days of summer haven’t quite reached the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District as we are all busy at work to gear up for the upcoming school year, which is just around the corner. This summer, the
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 8-20-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: COUNTY OFFICE OF ED WITHHOLDS APPROVAL OF LAUSD LCAP, Questions spending on low-income, English learner and foster studentsBy Louis Freedberg | ED SOURCE TODAY | http://bit.ly/1tpNtD4 August 19, 2014 | updated at 11:30 a.m. :: The Los Angeles County Office of Education is withholding approval of the Local Control and Accountability Plan drawn up by t