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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

9-30-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

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Successful Student Remediation Requires Educational Regression
(Mensaje se repite en Español)While some kids will succeed despite the purposeful, generational, and what remains the unaccountable incompetence of LAUSD, the vast majority will predictably never recover. Vacuous rhetoric unsupported by substantive pragmatic programs designed to address the subjective levels of the predominantly minority students are nowhere to be found in LAUSD or inner city dist
Why Teachers' Unions & Due Process Matter - Bridging Differences - Education Week
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/2014/09/today_leo_casey_of_the.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS3 Why Teachers' Unions & Due Process Matter Today, Leo Casey of the Albert Shanker Institute joins Deborah Meier on the Bridging Differences blog. Deb: So we begin our conversation with the idea of democracy. It is the pivotal idea in the political heritage we share, as a strong conception


Big Education Ape: Homeless students increase by 58 percent in past six years | Education By The Numbers
http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2014/09/homeless-students-increase-by-58.html Homeless students increase by 58 percent in past six years | Education By The NumbersDespite signs of a national economic recovery, homelessness in U.S. public schools steadily increased 8 percent, to 1.26 million students, in the 2012-13 school year from the previous year. That may not sound terrible, but consider
Los Angeles, a city of poverty and unemployment - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/15/losa-a15.html Los Angeles, a city of poverty and unemployment   By Gabriel Black 15 April 2014 On Wednesday, the second part of the Los Angeles 2020 Commission report was published. The report, taken together with its December 2013 predecessor, lifts the lid on the brutal, crushing conditions facing workers in the second largest city in the US. In its

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Los Angeles and the Endless Saga of Dr. John Deasy | Diane Ravitch's blog
http://dianeravitch.net/2014/09/29/los-angeles-and-the-endless-saga-of-dr-john-deasy/Whose the boss?  Los Angeles and the Endless Saga of Dr. John Deasy Los Angeles' school politics is beginning to sound like a soap opera. Tune in next week to see if long-suffering Superintendent John Deasy, much admired by billionaire Eli Broad, survives yet oanother unjust attack at the hands of the brutes who
LAUSD keeps no written records of Deasy performance reviews
http://laschoolreport.com/lausd-keeps-no-written-records-of-deasy-performance-reviews/ LAUSD keeps no written records of Deasy performance reviews Superintendent John Deasy As the LA Unified school board prepares to meet privately tomorrow to discuss how to evaluate Superintendent John Deasy in his performance review next month, it might be instructive to have a look at the board's previous evalu
Attorney Alleges Possible Tampering By LAUSD In Miramonte Civil Suit
Attorney Alleges Possible Tampering By LAUSD In Miramonte Civil Suit
DEASY and NEWTON'S TWISTED FACTS
Deasy and Newton’sTwisted FactsAgain, the LA Times shows it’s bias in downplaying Superintendent John Deasy’s many failures and mismanagement which has cost taxpayers multi millions of wasted money. Newton sloughs over the iPad potential collusion, now visible with reports of two year old emails between Apple and Pearson, and Deasy and Aquino. But he also avoids the huge failure of the doomed MiSi


9-29-14 Hemlock on the Rocks
Hemlock on the Rocks: Big Education Ape: LAUSD spends like Billionaires while being a Tyrant about Teacher’s Salaries - Lydia Gutierrezhttp://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2014/09/lausd-spends-like-billionaires-while.html LAUSD spends like Billionaires while being a Tyrant about Teacher's Salaries - Lydia Gutierrez Lydia Gutierrez: LAUSD spends like Billionaires while being a Tyrant about Teacher's