Per yesterday’s post about Congressional deliberations over alt cert teachers, LAUSD says that there are 24,466 fully credentialed classroom teachers [I’m assuming these are folks who came through an alternative route but are now done with their credits and fully certified], plus 199 NCLB-compliant interns [I’m guessing all or most of these are TFA corps members...

Speaking of court cases (see below), the House education committee held a hearing about alternative certification yesterday in Washington, trying to figure out what to do about the quickly-expiring NCLB exemption for alternative route candidates in LAUSD and nationally.  All indications are that Congress is going to extend the alt cert program, but if it...

Michelle Rhee’s organization, Students First, a Sacramento-based ed reform group, has produced a very bizarre TV ad, that Rhee showed on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday:

The “Go Public” project sent 50 filmmakers to 28 Pasadena Unified schools on the same day and they’re releasing the resulting footage next month. Here’s a quick look at one of the scenes:

It’s not such a bad thing that LAUSD is trying to prevent future cases of child molestation at school, but this blindfold ban seems like a particularly literal-minded, narrow approach to the problem — especially when there are so many other things that need doing.  Schools are always banning things (dirty dancing, wrist bands, gang colors, hugging...