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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 10-1-14

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








BROWN VETOES TWO BILLS AIMED AT CURBING TRUANCY; signs two others
  Governor splits package of bills aimed at reducing truancy …apparently it’s a law enforcement problem, not an education problem By Stephen Ceasar, LA Times | http://lat.ms/1rGpDDo Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, right, greets third-grade students after a news conference at Malabar Street Elementary School in Los Angeles, where she discussed her second annual report on elementary school


“WE HAVEN’T DECIDED ANTHING” …as names are floated for interim leader to replace L.A. Supt. John Deasy

School board starts weighing Supt. Deasy's evaluation 'We haven't decided anything,' school board president says of deliberations over Supt. Deasy's performance Names have been quietly floated for possible interim leaders to replace L.A. Supt. John Deasy by Howard Blume, LA Times | http://lat.ms/ZrA1px A conspicuous absence from Tuesday Board Meetings. 1 Oct 2014  ::  The Board


4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-30-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Newton in The LA Times: DEASY+CO CIRCLE THE WAGONS AS EMILY BRONTE MEETS CHRISTIAN GREYEXT. MONUMENT VALLEY – DAY THERE ARE SMOKE SIGNALS – AND THE SOUNDTRACK HAS AN INCESSENT DRUMBEAT. AND SO IT BEGINS, AS THE DEASY LOYALISTS, ®EFORMERS, ASTROTURF ALLIANCES, CHARTER SCHOOL PROPONENTS AND THE BILLIONARE BOYS CLUB CIRCLE THE WAGONS IN THE VALLEY AS THE B