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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 3-18-14

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






FROM LAUSD’s SECOND INTERIM FINANCIAL REPORT: “There must be some way outta here, said the joker to the thief”
-- from: 03-18-14 BR271-13/14 2nd Interim Financial Report( Compressed).pdf, page 4 of 80 | Districyt Certification of Interim Report to LACOE | CA Dept of Education |SACS Financial Reporting Software
TODAY’S LAUSD BOARD AGENDA: “the District may not be able to meet its financial obligations for the current fiscal year and for the two subsequent years”
After Prop 30, The LCFF …and the superintendent’s big raise? New Business for Action 1. Board of Education Report No. 271 – 13/14 Office of the Chief Financial Officer (2013-14 Second Interim Financial Report) Recommends approval of submission of Second Interim Financial Report to the Los Angeles County Office of Education with a qualified certification based on current

State Board makes it official: NO API SCORES FOR NEXT TWO YEARS
By John Fensterwald | EdSource Today http://bit.ly/1kFiAHs March 14th, 2014   ::  With federal approval finally in hand to give a Common Core-aligned practice test this spring, the State Board of Education took the inevitable next step this week. It suspended the Academic Performance Index, the chief measure of schools’ academic growth or progress, for this year and next. A reconstituted
THELMA MELENDEZ, MAYOR’S EDUCATION ADVISOR, TO JOIN L.A. UNIFIED, Maria Casillas back as Deasy’s interim #2
By Howard Blume, LA Times | http://lat.ms/1g6ki51 March 17, 2014, 12:11 p.m. :: The mayor’s top education advisor, Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana, is joining the Los Angeles Unified School District as a senior administrator. The 55-year-old Melendez, a former Obama administration official, was talked about in recent times as a contender for the top job at the nation’s second-largest school
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 3-17-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: L.A. Unified’S Decision To Move Students Sparks FurorOfficials didn't take into account long-standing (community+gang) rivalries when they decided to transfer about 280 students from Boyle Heights to Lincoln Heights, critics say. By Teresa Watanabe, LA Times | http://lat.ms/1hsMzj0 Students protest the possible closure of the Academy of Environmental an