Thirty percent of metro LA residents live in the central city (as defined by the census), and 30 percent of core city residents have college degrees, according to this chart dug up by Chicago Magazine: But only 23 percent of adults have college degrees and school-aged kids — not as steep a dropoff as, say, San Francisco,...

Still no word if and when a trigger petition gets filed in LAUSD, but in the meantime a screening of trigger movie “Won’t Back Down” was approved by the Democratic National Committee for a preconference event in Charlotte earlier this week, and took place complete with an appearance from Mayor Villaraigosa. Whatever Los Angelenos think of...

Cross-posted from This Week In Education.  Via Scholastic Administrator Magazine.

As you may already have seen, the good folks at HuffPost Los Angeles were kind enough to run our Deasy interview yesterday.  In case you missed it, Deasy notes in the interview that the California Teachers Association supports AB 5, which would revamp teacher evaluation, even though it raids QEIA (class size reduction funding): “This bill allows...

It’s crunchtime for the state legislature, which has yet to figure out what to do with a slew of issues including AB 5, the proposal that would essentially remove pupil progress from teacher evaluations (see KPCC: California lawmakers voting on hundreds of bills to meet a Friday midnight deadline). As you may recall, AB 5’s author offered...

We’ve been officially launched just a few days and the early responses have been really gratifying.  Thanks for all the emails, tweets, and Facebook “likes.” LA Observed’s Kevin Roderick was kind enough to mention us. WitnessLA’s Celeste Fremon gave us an especially warm (and much appreciated) welcome: LA Gets a New Education Blog! GothamSchools, a four year-old education...

Nothing really important will probably happen at the conventions this week or next but there are more education-related events scheduled than in previous years (when there was next to nothing) and some of the education events that will be taking place might be interesting or at least amusing.  Check below for a list, and let...

You might enjoy (or be appalled by) this Thursday night segment from the CNN Show Anderson Cooper 360 including footage of reporter Kyung Lah chasing the four SB1530 abstainers around the statehouse. It’s a little heavy-handed, but three of the four legislators play right into CNN’s hands by ducking interviews and issuing terse “no comments”...

Last week I tweeted out the arrival of Atul Gawande’s recent New Yorker article about what the medical industry could learn from the restaurant chain called the Cheesecake Factory, suggesting that maybe there were things that the education industry could learn from the article as well: “Our costs are soaring, the service is typically mediocre, and...

There are two big articles about teacher preparation programs in the news this week — and one about poverty — that don’t focus specifically on LAUSD but are well worth knowing about for anyone concerned with education reform.