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Mayoral Candidates Divided by High School
Though they both started out in the Valley, Mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti have followed separate paths since then, notes today’s LA Times piece. Nowhere are these differences more apparent than in the two candidates’ educational backgrounds. Greuel went to John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills, an LAUSD school. Garcetti graduated from the...
By LA School Report | May 10, 2013
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Morning Read: Latinos Narrow Education Gap
Similar Records, but L.A. Mayoral Candidates Inhabit Different Worlds Born and raised in the Valley, Wendy Greuel still lives there. Eric Garcetti grew up there too, but moved around before settling in the ‘tri-hipster’ area of Hollywood, Silver Lake and Echo Park. LA Times Why Are Women Practically Nonexistent on L.A. City Council? The Martinez-Montanez...
By LA School Report | May 10, 2013
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Mayoral Debate Reveals Few School Differences
Tuesday afternoon’s KCRW Mayoral debate — about half of which focused on public education — began with a bold assertion by candidate Wendy Greuel: “There’s probably no other subject where my opponent and I differ than on education.” But in a debate that covered topics such as the publication of teacher ratings in the LA Times, the...
By Hillel Aron | May 7, 2013
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Mayoral Debate: Teachers Give to Garcetti Super PAC
The American Federation of Teachers and its California chapter, CFT, have just given a combined $60,000 to a super PAC named Lots of People Who Support Eric Garcetti for Mayor. Although UTLA, the local teachers union, endorsed Garcetti back in February, this is the first time a teachers union has spent any money on the 2013...
By Hillel Aron | May 7, 2013
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Watch This: Candidates Talk at 24th Street Elementary
Here’s a Fox News segment on the mayoral candidates’ Monday morning appearance before 24th Street Elementary School parents.
By Alexander Russo | May 7, 2013
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Handful of Education Issues Could Split Mayoral Candidates
Tomorrow at 2:00 is the scheduled date and time for the much-discussed education debate between Mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel, which is being hosted by KCRW at the Petersen Automotive Museum. The two candidates have mirrored each other on education issues in recent conversations, and earlier today both visited the parents behind the 24th Street...
By Alexander Russo | May 6, 2013
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Garcetti and Greuel to Meet With “Trigger” Parents
Mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel will meet with parents on Monday, May 6 at 24th Street Elementary, the first school in LAUSD to be taken over by parents using the parent trigger law. Parent Revolution, an education advocacy group that has led the parent trigger effort in California, will host the meet and greet....
By Samantha Oltman | May 3, 2013
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Morning Read: Unions Oppose Teacher Evaluation Bill
Teacher Evaluations: Let the Battle Begin On Wednesday, the state Senate Education Committee will take up a bill by Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello, that would adopt a formal state standard for evaluating teachers. SD Union-Tribune Editorial A Student With Promise, a Teacher Who Had to Help Brought to the U.S. as a baby, Itzel Ortega...
By Samantha Oltman | April 24, 2013
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Mayoral Candidates Schedule May 7 Education Debate
The Mayoral debates now flow like wine as the campaign enters its final month. A recent poll put candidate Eric Garcetti ahead by 10 points, so it was his opponent, Wendy Greuel, who was largely on the attack last night as the candidates debated on the USC Health Sciences campus. (She also admitted, twice, to...
By Hillel Aron | April 23, 2013
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Morning Read: Garcetti, Greuel Debate Who’s Best for LA
Garcetti, Greuel Debate Who Can Best Lead Los Angeles As Mayor The two candidates for mayor of Los Angeles made robust cases for themselves in a televised debate Monday night from the USC Health Sciences Campus east of downtown, but they became most passionate when they squared off, again, on the question of who would...
By Samantha Oltman | April 23, 2013