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Friday, September 19, 2014

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-19-14

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





Lausd Gets Approval For New Maywood Campus
By Arnold Adler, Los Angeles Wave Staff Writer | http://bit.ly/1AW8eJ9 Friday, September 19, 2014 1:55 pm  ::  MAYWOOD — Plans have been completed for the Los Angeles Unified School District's new South Region High School No. 8, to be built at 5800 King Ave. The school is aimed at relieving congestion at nearby Bell High School, said district spokesperson Jose DePaz. The building will have 45


CORE CALIFORNIA WAIVER EXTENDED: Seven CORE districts – including LAUSD - placed on “High Risk Status” for failure to develop+implement the School Quality Improvement Index
by PBA from The Brustein & Manasevit Federal Update via email 19 Sept 2014  ::  Last week, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) extended the California CORE districts’ waiver from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for the 2014-2015 school year.  The CORE districts, consisting of Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Sanger, and Santa Ana Unified School Districts,

Lausd Has Become The National Example Of How Not To Provide Technology To Students And How Not To Activate A Comprehensive Student Information System
Published in the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles update for the week of September 22 with the title: KUDOS TO SCHOOL STAFFS FOR KEEPING IT TOGETHER! | http://bit.ly/JidN0H September 22, 2014  ::  This school year’s opening has been one of the worst in history for school staffs. Not since the 1994 Northridge earthquake has the normal, day-to-day, operation of the school been so

LETTERS: What's LAUSD doing with ex-military weapons? + The school board’s the boss, like it or not
Letters to the editor of the LA Times | http://lat.ms/1r70yBi LAUSD police have an ex-military armored vehicle similar to this one in Watertown, Conn. (Steven Valenti / Associated Press) 19 Sept 2014 To the editor: Los Angeles Unified school police will return three grenade launchers provided by the federal government but will keep the 61 semiautomatic M-16 rifles and a Mine Resistant
Lausd’S Cautious Approach To Heat Creates Issues For Football Teams
By Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/1uiJkRF   Narbonne defender Lawson Hall returns an interception during a passing tournament this summer. Hall and his Gaucho teammates were sidelined from practicing much of this week because of extreme heat. (David McNew / For the Times) After being sidelined by heat wave, LAUSD football teams will be face opponents after just one
LAUSD PAYS $6 MILLION FOR ISIS (not the terrorists) TO GO AWAY, WILL PAY $9.2 MILLION FOR MORE IPAD TRAINING
LAUSD to pay $3.75 million to vendor of student information software (the one before MiSiS)  in lawsuit settlement By Abby Sewell, LA Times |  http://lat.ms/1rkw28N 19 Sept 2014  ::  19 Sept 2014  ::  The Los Angeles Unified School District paid $3.75 million Thursday to settle a lawsuit with the vendor of a software system designed to
Is Turmoil In Los Angeles Unified Becoming Too Familiar?
By Lesli A. Maxwell, Education Week |  http://bit.ly/1r5R9v8 September 18, 2014 10:12 AM  ::  Running big school systems is complex, sometimes messy work that, at times, is rife with conflict and controversy. But is any single district prone to as much conflict, controversy, and, frankly, drama, as Los Angeles Unified? In the past month alone: Superintendent John Deasy halted the
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-18-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Editorial: THE BAD OLD DAYS AT LAUSD …and 2¢ more or lessBy The LA Times Editorial Board |  http://lat.ms/1suH7jR LAUSD Supt. John Deasy delivers his address at the Superintendent's Annual Administrators Meeting held at Garfield High School. (Los Angeles Times) 18 Sept 2014  ::  At L.A. Unified, tensions are high and crisis is in the air. The relationsh