4LAKids - Ref Rodriguez: LOCAL LAUSD BOARD MEMBER FOCUSED ON MIDDLE SCHOOLS

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Ref Rodriguez: LOCAL LAUSD BOARDMEMBER FOCUSED ON MIDDLE SCHOOLS

by Sheila Lane, Los Feliz Ledger Contributing Writer | http://bit.ly/1Opf58z

December 30, 2015  ::  Ref Rodriguez, the newly elected Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) School Board Member for District 5, faced what he called “a sort of surreal” day on December 15th when all schools in the LAUSD were closed due to a perceived terrorist threat that was later revealed to be a hoax.

“Ultimately, I felt that it was handled really well,” said Rodriguez. “If we had done nothing and [the threat was acted upon,] parents would have been thinking, ‘What were you doing playing with our kids’ lives?’”

Rodriguez acknowledged that there were problems in alerting parents and teachers in a timely manner, but that the LAUSD is working to improve that process.

On more typical days, Rodriguez has been working with the schools in his district that includes Silver Lake and Los Feliz to the northeast, and to the southeast, Vernon and South Gate.

“Because the needs and the communities and context are so different, we approach [these areas] in different ways,” Rodriguez said.

In the southeast—which Rodriguez is less familiar with than the northeast where he lives—Rodriguez’s team is working to better understand the area and “to help people determine what are the best approaches to do great work.”

In the northeast, it’s more about helping to facilitate programs and ideas already working well and supporting new ones, he said.

As an example, Rodriguez pointed to Silver Lake where some parents are considering starting a middle school.

“I love the fact that we have a parent initiative that the district is supporting,” he said, “rather than a district initiative that we’re trying to get parents to support.”

A native Angeleno who, in 1999, partnered with another educator to open the first public charter middle school in Los Angeles, Rodriguez went on to create 15 more charter schools under the “Partnerships to Uplift Communities” banner.

Elected to the school board last May, Rodriguez—who beat incumbent Bennett Kayser—has been targeted by critics who say that he is too beholden to the charter school movement to be impartial on the issue.
  
Rodriguez says that is not the case.

“I look at schools,” he said, “through the lens of, ‘[Which] are the schools that are doing the most innovative things and getting results?’”

Rodriguez said that he believes charter schools—which are publically funded and accountable to the district, but are managed independently—can be a great vehicle for the overall district to learn innovative educational and management approaches, but that there are too many charter schools that do not live up to that promise.

Conversely, Rodriguez said, he has seen some outstanding models within the traditional LAUSD system.

“What’s interesting to me is that in places where you have parents and teachers who feel empowered in L.A. Unified,” he said, “they are doing some of the most innovative things that4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Ref Rodriguez: LOCAL LAUSD BOARDMEMBER FOCUSED ON MIDDLE SCHOOLS:

 

#NPE16NC Early Bird Conference Registration Now Open!

#NPE16NC Early Bird Conference Registration Now Open!:

REGISTRATION FOR NPE 2016 CONFERENCE IS NOW OPEN

Register now and take advantage of our ‘early bird’ reduced rates for NPE’s 3rd Annual National Conference, And Justice for All: Strengthening Public Education for Each Child, which will take place April 16 – 17, 2016.

REGISTER HERE

On Friday night, April 15, 2016, education advocates from around the country will begin gathering in Raleigh, North Carolina for NPE’s 3rdAnnual National Conference which will run from Saturday morning, April 16th until Sunday afternoon, April 17.

Aligned with the theme, And Justice for All: Strengthening Public Education for Each Child, keynote speakers and workshop presenters will tackle the challenges facing our students and schools as we all work towards achieving a more just system of public education in America.

As previously announced, Saturday morning, April 16th will begin with an inspirational welcome from our President, Diane Ravitch and a keynote address by Rev. William Barber, the President of the North Carolina NAACP and co-founder of the Moral Mondays Movement.

We promise to talk about what you care about—equitable funding, resisting corporate reform, Opt Out, high-stakes testing, teacher evaluations, school closures and much more. Make sure you reserve your spot now at reduced rates for both your registration and hotel.

We’ve also listened to your feedback from last year and made a few changes. This year’s registration fee will include your meals – breakfast and lunch on Saturday, and brunch on Sunday.  No tickets, no waiting, it’s all included in one ticket!

We’re continually looking for ways to help activists network with each other.  We’ve built in networking times and are using the Bizzabo platform to host an online community.  Once you buy your ticket and register, you’ll be added to the community.  Of course, you can opt out, but this time we hope you don’t! This will be a great way to see who’s attending the conference, put a face to that name you’ve been reading about for years, and stay in touch with other activists before, during, and after the conference.

See you in Raleigh!

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2016 New Year’s prediction – Governor Dannel Malloy will resign in the next 385 days. - Wait What?

2016 New Year’s prediction – Governor Dannel Malloy will resign in the next 385 days. - Wait What?:

2016 New Year’s prediction – Governor Dannel Malloy will resign in the next 385 days.

As the newly crowned head of the Democratic Governors Association, Dannel Malloy will spend 2016 crisscrossing the United States to campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidates and his preferred presidential contender, Hillary Clinton.  Malloy’s recent campaign trips have already taken him to New Hampshire, Florida and Iowa.

Should Hillary Clinton become President of the United States, Malloy will be able to find a safe landing place in Washington D.C. following the January 20, 2017 Inauguration.

However, should the call to “serve” at the national level allude him, observers can still expect Governor Dannel Malloy to bail as Connecticut’s Chief Elected Official at some point in the next 385 days.

Leading the list of reasons Malloy will seek greener pastures is the harsh reality that the 2016 New Year’s prediction – Governor Dannel Malloy will resign in the next 385 days. - Wait What?:

Arne Duncan: Testocracy Tsar. Educational Alchemist. Corporate lackey. | The Progressive

Arne Duncan: Testocracy Tsar. Educational Alchemist. Corporate lackey. | The Progressive:

Arne Duncan: Testocracy Tsar. Educational Alchemist. Corporate lackey

Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education is set to resign at the close of the 2015, ending his tenure as one of the most destructive forces against public education in history.

“He’s done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else,” President Obama gushed announcing Duncan’s resignation last October. Obama’s words were meant as praise for the Secretary, but in this one aspect of the assessment of Duncan I have to agree with the President. There can be no doubt that Duncan inflicted policies that caused students and educators to cry out for help.

Duncan’s official title may have been Secretary of Education, but his real role has been the “testocracy tsar.” His signature policies of Race to the Top and Common Core have been singularly focused on promoting high-stakes, standardized test-and-punish policies.

For example, in order for states to compete for grant money under Race to the Top, Duncan required them to increase the use of standardized testing in teacher evaluations. Duncan’s championing of the Common Core State Standards—and the tests that came shrink-wrapped with them—has ushered in developmentally inappropriate standards in the early grades that punish late bloomers, while further entrenching the idea that the intellectual and emotional process of teaching and learning can be reduced to a test score. For many, Duncan will be remembered as an educational alchemist who attempted to turn education into “testucation”—with the average student today subjected to an outlandish 112 standardized tests between preschool and high school graduation. The highest concentration of these tests are in schools serving low-income students and students of color.

In addition, Duncan has been widely derided as “the national school superintendent” for the way he held waivers to the No Child Left Behind Act over the heads of state officials. NCLB set an unattainable goal of 100% proficiency in math and reading for every school in the country by 2014. As per the plan, not a single state reached the proficiency goals, and schools could only escape sanction by the federal government if they were granted a waiver—which Duncan would only grant to states who would agree to more testing.

This hit home for me last year when my state of Washington refused to mandate standardized tests in teacher evaluations. Arne Duncan then took off his gloves and showed he wasn’t afraid to punish children by revoking the NCLB waiver for the state. With the waiver gone, nearly all of Washington’s schools were labeled failures, resulting in the loss of control of millions of dollars in federal money.

And yet, as harmful as Duncan has been to our nation’s children, it’s important not to credit him with having too much impact. Duncan wasn’t a mastermind or a skilled political operative. He was a corporate yes man who did anything that was asked of him by the richest people the world has ever known. As Anthony Cody and others have detailed, billionaires such as Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton family, set the education agenda, wrote the policy, worked political backchannels, and lined up the corporations who would profit. Once the education reforms were neatly packaged, these billionaires trotted out their flunky, Secretary Duncan, who dutifully worked to sell their agenda to the nation.

One of Duncan’s primary objectives has been the privatization of education through the dramatic expansion of charter schools. But as The Washington Post reported, an audit by the Department of Education’s own inspector general found “that the agency has done a poor job of overseeing federal dollars sent to charter schools.” This lack of oversight laid the foundation for a recent report from the Center for Popular Democracy and the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), which found some $200 million in “alleged and confirmed financial fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement” committed by charter schools around the country.

Duncan also implemented his policies in a cruel and arrogant manner. He infamously proclaimed Hurricane Katrina as "the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans.” Duncan saw the destruction as a great opportunity because so many people were displaced that it allowed the privatizers to completely end public schooling in New

- See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2016/01/188484/arne-duncan-testocracy-tsar-educational-alchemist-corporate-lackey#sthash.xuFxt06I.dpuf

Howard Blume: A Balanced Account of the Berkeley Study of L.A. Charters | Diane Ravitch's blog

Howard Blume: A Balanced Account of the Berkeley Study of L.A. Charters | Diane Ravitch's blog:

Howard Blume: A Balanced Account of the Berkeley Study of L.A. Charters

Howard Blume has written a very informative and fair account of the study of charters in Los Angeles conducted by Bruce Fuller and other researchers at Berkeley.

The study, which is linked in the article, says that students in charters begin with higher test scores and improve faster than their peers in district public schools.

The implications, I believe, are that those who enroll in charters start off ahead academically, and their academic gains are increased by peer effects. If a student is enrolled in a school with other higher-performing students–and if the students with behavioral problems and the unmotivated students are not present–the students learn faster.

What are the lessons for public schools? Remove the students with behavioral problems; remove the students who are unmotivated; remove the students with severe disabilities; remove the students with low test scores; limit the number of English language learners to those who are nearly fluent. That’s a formula for success. In a school where everyone is motivated, well-behaved, and ready to learn, students get higher test scores.

But what should we do with all those kids who were removed and excluded? If Eli Broad has his way, half the children in Los Angeles will Howard Blume: A Balanced Account of the Berkeley Study of L.A. Charters | Diane Ravitch's blog:

Big Education Ape: Berkeley Study of Charter Schools in Los Angeles | UC Berkeley - Graduate School of Education http://bit.ly/1TZUtUm

Big Education Ape: LA charter school study: who benefits? | Berkeley News http://bit.ly/1TZUrM4

CURMUDGUCATION: US Students Lead in Browsing

CURMUDGUCATION: US Students Lead in Browsing:

US Students Lead in Browsing

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is the group that administers that nifty PISA test-- the one that periodically leads to breathless headlines of "Oh Nos!! Our students don't test as well as Estonia!" But the OECD is more than just a test (and attendant PR)-- they've also been taking a look at technology in education.

Back in September they published Students, Computers and Learning: Making the Connection, a report about the importance of digital learning. If you follow the link, you can order the book, because the OECD apparently has a delicious sense of irony.

The information in the report is from the 2012 cycle of PISA, for which ICT awareness questionnaires were distributed, except not in the US, so there is less information about us in the report than their might be.

Back in 2012, one in five of students in the bottom quartile of income did not have internet at heom. Among the other 75%, only 3% didn't have internet.

Back in 2012, we had one of the lowest student-to-computer ratio in schools among the OECD nations. Pretty sure that this is old news after three years of frantic computer deployment, though it might be interesting to note how many students have access to computers for activities other than taking standardized tests.

But here's an interesting factoid-- our teens are among the world's leaders in web browsing.

No kidding. US fifteen-year-olds were ahead of the OECD average for digital reading. They are better than average at evaluating whether or not a link will lead something useful. And we are CURMUDGUCATION: US Students Lead in Browsing:



Tamir Rice Is Dead

Much has been written about the shooting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland, most of it written in an attempt to put Rice's death in some sort of larger context, or to resist the creation of any such larger context. But what keeps coming back to me is how awful it is, how appalling it is all by itself.

For those of you for whom it has become a sort of background noise, one more example of That Awful Thing That Keeps Happening, I just want to focus on this one stupid death.

Watch the video. Rice is hanging out in the park, and the police car races up, onto the grass. The policeman on the passenger side shoots Rice in less time than it takes to read this sentence, before he can even get all the way out of the car. No warning, no instructions, no chance for Tamir Rice to do much of anything in reaction to the car barreling across the grass in the park.

Why were the police there? Another person in the park made a 911 call about a kid waving a gun around. Probably a fake, but he's scaring people.

What happened next? The police left Rice lying on the ground, dying. When Rice's sister arrived and tried to run to her brother's side, they tackled and cuffed her. And then, Rice died.

There are plenty of questions here. Why drive the squad car so close to Rice in the first place? Why no warnings? Don't even the most casual tv cop show watchers know, "Freeze! Police! Drop it!!"

And one of the biggest questions-- why had anyone given Timothy Loehmann a badge and a gun? His previous experience was four months of police academy, followed by one month on a force during which his superiors determined that he was unfit for duty-- emotionally unstable and unwilling to follow orders. He quit before he could be fired. the Cleveland police department never checked his record, even though it had all happened about a dozen miles away.

Now, as the rest of us welcome in the New Year and clean up the dishes of last night's celebration as we prepare to watch the Rose Parade on tv, Tamir Rice's family faces another holiday for which Tamir Rice Is Dead

What everyone else knows about your child | Seattle Education

What everyone else knows about your child | Seattle Education:

What everyone else knows about your child

So, there is the NSA which is creepy (an unconstitutional) enough spying on every citizen in this country who has an email account or cell phone, but what about all the people who know about your child’s personal information?

With every policy that goes through our city, state and national legislatures regarding public school education, your child is losing more and more of their private information to third parties and beyond.

This was spelled out in CCER, the Road Map Project and student data collection and with the mayor’s preschool program, it will now begin with 2 year olds and follow them through 18 years and beyond.

FERPA, a student’s right to privacy act, was weakened with Obama and his sidekick Secretary of Education Arne Duncan when they amended the law. See Diane Ravitch’s post Why is the US Department of Education Weakening FERPA?

Leonie Haimson has taking on the battle of protecting student privacy for several years now and established The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy.

To follow is a recent article Ms. Haimson wrote for the Washington Post:

The astonishing amount of data collected about your children

Remember that ominous threat from your childhood, “This will go down on your permanent record?” Well, your children’s permanent record is a whole lot bigger today and it may be permanent. Information about your children’s behavior and nearly everything else that a school or state agency knows about them is being tracked, profiled and potentially shared.

During a February 2015 congressional hearing on “How Emerging Technology Affects Student Privacy,” Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin asked the panel to “provide a summary of all the information collected by the time a student reaches graduate school.”Joel Reidenberg, director of the Center on Law & Information Policy at Fordham Law School, responded:

“Just think George Orwell, and take it to the nth degree. We’re in an environment of surveillance, essentially. It will be an extraordinarily rich data set of your life.”

Most student data is gathered at school via multiple routes; either through children’s online usage or information provided by parents, teachers or other school staff. A What everyone else knows about your child | Seattle Education:

6 Education Stories To Watch In 2016 : NPR Ed : NPR

6 Education Stories To Watch In 2016 : NPR Ed : NPR:

6 Education Stories To Watch In 2016 

 Claudio Sanchez is the senior member of the NPR Ed team, with more than 25 years on the education beat. We asked him for his list of the top stories he'll be watching in 2016.

1. The New Federal Education Law

The long, grueling fight to overhaul the 14-year-old No Child Left Behind law is over, but that'll turn out to be the easy part. The new Every Student Succeeds Act returns most government oversight of schools back to states. But there are no guarantees that the states will do a better job than the federal government in two key areas: closing the achievement gap and raising the performance of the absolute worst schools.

There will be some relief for students burdened by excessive testing. But for the most part states will continue to rely on test scores, using them to punish schools rather than for improving curriculum and instruction. Reading and math scores will drop for all kids on the new, tougher standardized tests linked to the Common Core. But the dismal performance of groups that struggle will trigger more scrutiny from civil rights groups in 2016. We'll also see those groups pressure states to deal with teacher quality and funding.

2. Moving On From Common Core

The controversy over the much-maligned Common Core State Standards will diminish. States will continue their efforts to re-brand or rename the standards, while for the most part following them. Despite the political controversy, the push for high academic standards will continue, and we'll see little of the "race to the bottom" that happened under NCLB.

3. Charter Schools Under A Microscope

The charter school movement will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2016. With 6,700 schools and nearly 3million students across 43 states and the District of Columbia, charters are a powerful force. The federal government has poured billions of dollars into charters, and polling shows that a majority of Americans support them. But you can expect these publicly funded, privately run schools to face new scrutiny, and new criticism.

We'll see more scandals involving fraud, corruption and mismanagement, despite 6 Education Stories To Watch In 2016 : NPR Ed : NPR:

JCTA President Defends Teachers' Unions Against Bevin's Criticism

JCTA President Defends Teachers' Unions Against Bevin's Criticism:

JCTA President Defends Teachers’ Unions Against Bevin’s Criticism

The president of the Jefferson County Teachers Association says Gov. Matt Bevin’s assertion that teachers’ unions hinder schools’ success is unfounded and irresponsible.

Bevin, a Republican, lashed out teachers’ unions on Tuesday at an event in West Louisville to support charter schools. At the event, Bevin said teachers’ unions protect “those who don’t need to be protected” —  namely, by providing job protection for ineffective educators.

Brent McKim, the president of the Jefferson County Teachers Association, said Bevin made a “ridiculous assertion.” McKim said teachers’ unions don’t protect bad teachers, but they do work to protect a “fair process.”

Jefferson County Public Schools has about 6,000 teachers, and about 95 percent are part of the union, McKim said.

“For the governor to try to draw a distinction between teachers and their union in Jefferson County shows a real lack of understanding on his part,” McKim said.

New teachers are subject to a four-year screening process during which they may be dismissed at any time, for any reason, McKim said. The process is meant to weed out ineffective teachers. This comes after teachers have participated in a years-long training program, which includes college and student teaching, McKim said.

“There’s really no reason to believe that we have ineffective teachers when we have that rigorous multi-year screening process to ensure that anyone that gets a continuing contract is effective,” he said.

Teachers receiving a continuing contract following the four-year provisional period can still be ousted, but the district must provide a definitive reason for the firing, McKim said.

Teachers are subject to the state accepted Danielson Framework for Teaching, which allows for what he called a flexible evaluation process to determine effectiveness, McKim said.

While teachers that have progressed beyond the four-year provisional phase of their JCTA President Defends Teachers' Unions Against Bevin's Criticism:

Indiana What’s Next? Education Stories To Watch In 2016 | StateImpact Indiana

What’s Next? Stories To Watch In 2016 | StateImpact Indiana:

What’s Next? Stories To Watch In 2016

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2015 was a busy year for education in Indiana – if you don’t believe us, just look back at our list of everything that happened over the past 12 months.

And we’re sure 2016 won’t be much different. Already, state policymakers and education leaders are gearing up for the year ahead – and so are we. Check out what’s on deck for the new year…

SOME ISTEP+ HOUSEKEEPING…

One of this year’s most noteworthy (and controversial) education stories will undoubtedly remain in the headlines into 2016: results and ramifications from the statewide ISTEP+. Following a series of delays due to technical and grading errorsthis fall, the scores from last spring’s test have yet to be officially released to the public.

Remember, ISTEP+ scores typically factor into other things like school A-F accountability grades (we showed you the preliminary data for those earlier this month), teacher evaluations and, in turn, teacher pay – so it’s safe to say Indiana schools look forward to seeing their students’ results in any given year.

House speaker Brian Bosma is one of several lawmakers working to untie teacher evaluations from 2015 ISTEP+ results. (Photo Credit: Gretchen Frazee/WTIU News)

What makes this particular round so interesting? Many don’t expect scores to be so good – students took a brand-new test this year, one that matched Indiana’slatest set of academic standards, and history shows that typically leads to a drop in scores. And that has led a growing group of state lawmakers to suggest Indiana “hold schools harmless” for this year’s performance. Look for legislation in the early part of the 2016 session todecouple ISTEP+ results from teacher evaluations.

State Superintendent Glenda Ritz has said we can expect to see finalized A-F calculations by January 15.

…AND STARTING ANEW

Come February, it’s out with the old and in with the new: CTB, the vendor that has experienced so many complications administering Indiana’s ISTEP+ test, will no longer be tasked with that job. The state will instead deal with Pearson, a British testing company. Many are curious to see how the new relationship works out – Pearson has a history of test security issues in other states, although the company has said they’re confident they can avoid problems in the Hoosier state.

Meanwhile, the future of the state’s testing system appears to be up for discussion during the legislative session, as well. Just last week, legislators said they’d be open to talking about replacing ISTEP+ with a different, “off-the-shelf” test.

TEACHER RECRUITMENT EFFORTS

Department of Education data exposed in 2015 revealed that Indiana is seeing lower numbers entering its teaching force than in years past. Superintendent Ritz’s Blue Ribbon Commission worked to comb through the data and present legislators with some potential solutions, and lawmakers plan to examine the issue during session this year. House Speaker Brian Bosma has said teacher recruitment in particular will be theGeneral Assembly‘s second priority this year.

Listen in particular for discussion during the 2016 session about State Board of Education member Gordon Hendry’s Next Generation Hoosier Educator Scholarship program.

ROCK THE VOTE

The 2016 presidential election is now only 10 months away, so you can expect what’s already been an onslaught of primary coverage to ramp up even more. In the handful of debates that have already happened, we haven’t heard much about candidates’thoughts or plans for education – but there’s still plenty of time for that to change.

And don’t forget: there are other big elections right here in Indiana come November, too! Hoosiers will head to the polls to cast votes for governor, state superintendentand a host of other legislative positions.

A NEW ERA FOR ESEA

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (right) speaks with Purdue president Mitch Daniels on the school\’s West Lafayette campus last fall. (Photo Credit: Rachel Morello/StateImpact Indiana)

Right before year’s end, the U.S. Congress worked to get a new version ofNo Child Left Behind to President Barack Obama‘s desk, and he signed theEvery Student Succeeds Act into law. This is the latest version of theElementary and Secondary Education Act, the nation’s cornerstone education law, and it gives states more flexibility in how they deal with things likeaccountability, testing and failing schools.

Watch for news from the U.S. Department of Education – under the new leadership of John King, following former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s departure– about how they plan to work with states to usher in the first reauthorization of ESEA in more than a decade.

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS

Policymakers hunkered down to revamp Indiana’s high school diplomas throughout the last year, but the work isn’t yet finished. After scores of parents, teachers and students spoke out against some of the changes – including increased math requirements and an overhaul of special education diplomas – the State Board of Education decided to send the ideas back to the drawing board.

Listen for news out of the special committee Superintendent Ritz will convene tofurther define these new diploma requirements. She says they’ll try to bring suggestions back to the state board, who hopes to have new drafts finalized by April.

 What’s Next? Stories To Watch In 2016 | StateImpact Indiana:

HAPPY NEW YEAR - All You Need is Love

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