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CALIFORNIA EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS SCORE FIFTH FROM BOTTOM IN NATIONAL VOCABULARY TESTS
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By Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News | http://bit.ly/VSd0nU 12/06/2012 :: California ranks fifth-lowest in the nation in students' vocabulary -- a critical part of reading, according to results of national standardized tests released Thursday. smf: In the chart at the right the blue at the top/red at the bottom trending is interesting – albeit statistically meaningless. Unless
15 CANDIDATES MEANS A CROWDED BALLOT FOR LAUSD BOARD ELECTION
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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/XAZ0D7 12/06/2012 :: Fifteen candidates, including two incumbents, met Wednesday's filing deadline to run for three seats on the Los Angeles Unified board in the March 5 primary. District 2 incumbent Monica Garcia has already qualified to appear on the ballot, along with challengers Robert Skeels and Isabel Vasquez for the East
LAUSD SCHOOLS FACE CHALLENGE OF MAKING ARTS PART OF THE CORE CURRICULUM
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Tami Abdollah with Ricky O'Bannon | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/YW3BQ Mae Ryan/KPCC : Students dance in the after-school Greenway Arts Alliance program, a magnet program within Fairfax high school. December 7th, 2012, 6:00am :: Arts advocates and educators are excited that the Los Angeles Unified School District Board voted unanimously in October to make arts a "core subject."
2 stories + Ruling: COURT OVERTURNS RULING GIVING MORE SPACE TO CHARTER SCHOOLS
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LAUSD WINS KEY LEGAL BATTLE WITH CHARTER SCHOOLS: California appellate court panel strikes down a ruling that could have opened up many classrooms for charters and created potential hardships for traditional campuses. By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/UKOir3 December 7, 2012 :: Los Angeles school district officials won a key legal battle with charter schools this week, when
WEBINAR: “Kids Are Drinking WHAT?!”
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from EatRight: The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Formerly the American Dietetic Association | http://bit.ly/YFHFdB 5 December 2102 :: The National Dairy Council is holding a free one-hour webinar December 12 covering beverage consumption trends among children. The webinar "Kids Are Drinking WHAT?!" will share data from recent analyses of the National Health and Nutrition Examination
PARENT+STUDENT ADVOCATE/4LAKids BLOGGER SCOTT FOLSOM QUALIFIES FOR SCHOOL BOARD BALLOT, IS ENDORSED BY UTLA
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by smf for 4LAKidsNews Dec 6, 2012 :: Yesterday I turned in my nominating petitions to the City of LA elections office and preliminarily qualified for the March 5th primary election for LAUSD Board of Education, Seat #2. That seat is currently occupied by Board of Education President Monica Garcia. Later in the evening I was endorsed by a vote of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) House
THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SAYS YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO A BAD EDUCATION
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By: Melissa Griffin | Special to The SF Examiner | http://bit.ly/TJWFlU S.F. Examiner file photo 11/30/12 6:19 PM :: What kind of education is meaningful? Straight from the “careful how you defend yourself” file is this insight from the California Department of Education, which recently defended itself from allegations that our kids are receiving a substandard education by arguing that, “
DAVE BRUBECK
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smf Thursday, December 6, 2012 :: On Tuesday afternoon I was driving home –if bachelor squalor can be called that - past a curious shop in Cypress Park that had caught my eye. There was an open parking place out in front. It wasn’t raining. I grabbed it - an omen. The door is a wormhole to another glitch in spacetime. The shop is truly curious, a hodgepodge of thrift store finds: furniture,
Report: STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT PART OF THE PAYOFF WITH BIG FACILITIES INVESTMENT
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By Kimberly Beltran, SI&A Cabinet Report | http://bit.ly/YwCFYX Tuesday, December 04, 2012 :: An investment over the past decade of nearly $20 billion by Los Angeles Unified School District in new schools and facilities has had a direct result in higher student achievement – especially for those migrating to new elementary campuses, according to a new study. The findings, contained in a
2 stories: NEW LITIGATION FILED RELATED TO ALLEGED LEWD CONDUCT AT MIRAMONTE
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-- Howard Blume, LA Times/L.A. NOW | http://lat.ms/11TwR9M December 5, 2012 | 6:00 am :: Attorneys filed four more lawsuits this week in connection with lewd-conduct charges against a former teacher at Miramonte Elementary School. The litigation, filed Monday by the firm Manly & Stewart, accuses the Los Angeles Unified School District of negligence, fraud, sexual harassment, gender violence
LAUSD BOARD OKs DEAL WITH UTLA ON PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS
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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/UnW5J2 12/04/2012 11:48:15 AM PST/Updated: 12/04/2012 07:09:00 PM PST :: The LAUSD school board signed off Tuesday on a deal with the teachers union to implement a new system that will incorporate student test data in performance evaluations. The board voted 5-0 in executive session to approve the agreement reached last Thursday
Former Senator Gloria Romero: SHE HAS A LITTLE LIST
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Billboards promote law that lets students leave low performing schools Adolfo Guzman-Lopez | KPCC 89.3/Pass-Fail | http://bit.ly/YJ0R92 Photo courtesy of Ed Reform Now December 3rd, 2012, 2:43pm :: The Open Enrollment Act became California law two years ago with the goal to give kids a way out of the worst schools in the state. The law compels the state to develop a list of the 1,000 worst
SEN. PADILLA REINTRODUCES BILL MAKING IT EASIER TO FIRE TEACHERS FOR MISCONDUCT
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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/YJHD3b 11/30/2012 :: State Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacoima, plans to reintroduce legislation Monday that would make it easier for school districts to fire teachers for misconduct. The bill is expected to be similar to Senate Bill 1530, which Padilla authored last session, that would have made a school board the final authority in
HOMESCHOOLERS AND TEA PARTIERS - DISGUISED AS SENATE REPUBLICANS - BLOCK U.N. DISABILTIES TREATY
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Senate Republicans block the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities By Morgan Little | LA Times | http://lat.ms/YwlV3R Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, right, is wheeled into the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington by his wife, Elizabeth Dole. (CSPAN2 / Associated Press Photos) December 4, 2012, 10:52 a.m. :: The Senate rejected a United Nations
WHAT’S IN A NAME? Discord.
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Celebrities? Historical figures? Neighborhoods? As L.A. Unified replaces temporary generic campus names with permanent monikers, the process has become political, controversial or just plain wacky. By Stephen Ceasar, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/TB0kQf South Region Elementary School #11, L.A. Unified's newest campus, recently opened. The principal said it would be re-named after a
A NEW WAY TO RATE L.A. UNIFIED’S TEACHERS
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An agreement on evaluations takes a broad-based approach, using student test scores but not relying too heavily on that one measure. LA Times Editorial | http://lat.ms/XqdzcA Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. John Deasy chats with students on the first day of classes at the Hilda L. Solis Learning Academy in East Los Angeles on Aug. 14. (Los Angeles Times) December 5, 2012 ::
L.A. UNIFIED SAYS DEAL ON EVALUATIONS MEETS COURT ORDER + smf’s 2¢
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District files brief by judge's deadline, but details remain unresolved in agreement with union on using student test scores to assess teachers. By Teresa Watanabe and Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/TJaQFr December 4, 2012, 9:20 p.m. :: The Los Angeles Unified School District filed court papers Tuesday asserting that a new tentative agreement with the teachers union has
CITY BAILS OUT ON LEASE WITH DYSFUNCTIONAL COMMUNUTY COLLEGE DISTRICT, EXPOSES DEMOCRATIC PARTY MACHINE
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The Van de Kamps Follies continue at Los Angeles Community College District, unabated by Miki Jackson and Laura Gutierrez , CityWatch VOICES - /Vol 10 Issue 97 | http://bit.ly/YOiLaI DEc 4, 2012 :: On Wednesday (December 5, 2012), the Board of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is expected to accept the City of Los Angeles’ decision to prematurely terminate its lease of
THE ‘FLORIDA MIRACLE’ (aka THE TEXAS MIRACLE v 2.0): How Florida Schools Are Failing To Prepare Graduates For College
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13th Grade: Florida’s K-12 public education system has graduated hundreds of thousands of students in the past decade who couldn’t read, write or solve math problems well enough to take some college-level courses. By Mc Nelly Torres and Lynn Waddell. Florida Center for Investigative Reporting| http://bit.ly/Vu9Ry9 <> Shakira Lockett, 22, spent three
AT BROOKLYN FREE SCHOOL, A MOVEMENT BORN WITH LIBERTY AND NO TESTING FOR ALL
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Lucas Kavner / huffington post | http://huff.to/VlRSKh 11/30/2012 8:38 am EST Updated: 11/30/2012 11:46 pm EST :: NEW YORK -- On a recent Wednesday morning at the Brooklyn Free School, a class was in session. Ten students, ranging in age from about 12 to 16, sat around a table having a heated debate about chemistry. And superpowers. "Those elements don't really go together," said one
Report: SCHOOL TESTING IN U.S. COSTS $1.7 BILLION; BUT THAT MAY NO BE ENOUGH
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Joy resmovits / huffington post | http://huff.to/QxqOFi 11/29/2012 6:47 pm EST Updated: 11/29/2012 8:37 pm EST :: Matt Chingos has an idea that will likely roil the scores of parents and teachers who think the U.S. tests its students too much: we might actually spend too little on standardized testing. But he's not alone. "He shows, that with the debate about testing in this
Public Education in the other LA: LOUISIANA VOUCHER PROGRAM RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL
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By Stephanie Simon/Reuters / from Huffinton Post | http://huff.to/QVnFR8 11/30/2012 5:49 pm EST Updated: 11/30/2012 11:06 pm EST :: (Reuters) - A state judge on Friday shot down Louisiana's sweeping school voucher program, ruling that the state could not use funds set aside for public education to pay private-school tuition for thousands of low- and middle-income children. Louisiana
NO MORE EXCUSES FOR CALIFORNIA
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Themes in the News A weekly commentary written by UCLA IDEA on the important issues in education as covered by the news media Week of Nov. 26-30, 2012| http://bit.ly/RpWi1p 11-30-2012 :: The U.S. Department of Education released data on Monday that for the first time used a common measure allowing for state-by-state comparisons. Not surprisingly, in yet another national measure, California
Attorney: “CRIMINAL CULPABILITY’ NEEDED TO FIX LAUSD ABUSE SCANDAL | CTC: FAILURE TO REPORT CONSTITUTES UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
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CBS los Angeles | http://cbsloc.al/Svj3iP November 30, 2012 12:02 PM :: LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — An attorney representing alleged child sex abuse victims from Miramonte Elementary School Friday called for a more thorough audit of the Los Angeles Unified School District. KNX 1070′s Pete Demetriou reports the reaction comes after a state auditor criticized the district for failing to report
Tentative Agreement: LAUSD-UTLA TEACHER EVALUATION PROCEDURES
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from UTLA.NET TENTATIVE AGREEMENT: LAUSD-UTLA 2012 Evaluation Procedures Supplement to Art X 11-29-12
STUDENT SCORES MAY BE USED IN LAUSD TEACHER RATINGS: Union leaders and District officials agree to make testing data part of evaluations. But some hurdles remain.
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"This is a complex agreement and possibly the most sophisticated evaluation agreement that I have seen. It assures that test scores will not be overused, will not be assigned an arbitrary and inappropriate weight, will not be the sole or primary determinant of a teacher's evaluation." -Diane Ravitch By Teresa Watanabe and
