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Charts: CA Among States Banning Teacher Rating Release
Mayoral candidates Greuel and Garcetti may support publishing teachers’ performance ratings — and indeed the LA Times did just that a few years ago. But, according to this new Education Week chart, California is one of 22 states that currently exempt individual teachers’ ratings from open records laws. Via Twitter, EdWeek reporter Stephen Sawchuk says it’s California code...
By Alexander Russo | May 8, 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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LA Journalists & Academics at Education Writers Conference
Several LA-area education journalists and academics presented and moderated at the 2013 Education Writers Association national conference held last week at Stanford University, where hot topics included early childhood, teacher evaluation, and school turnarounds. The journalists in attendance included the LA Times‘ education editor, Beth Shuster, and its editorial page writer, Karin Klein, and Larry...
By Alexander Russo | May 6, 2013
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Events: May 4 Symposium in San Jose
The education nonprofit EdSource has scheduled a May 4 San Jose symposium on statewide education issues that’s intended to “help the public and policymakers make sense of the complex issues facing educators.” Topics of discussion will be the Common Core standards (rigorous standards matched to international levels) and the proposed school funding formula rewrite that...
By Alexander Russo | May 3, 2013
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Update: Sanchez Unavailable for Candidate Forum
This afternoon’s Teach Plus candidates’ event may turn out to be the only live forum for District 6 contenders Monica Ratliff and Antonio Sanchez between now and the May 21 election day. However, we’re told that Sanchez can’t make it, despite efforts to contact him and to reschedule the event to suit his schedule. The...
By Alexander Russo | May 2, 2013
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Daily News Addresses Ratliff Union Role
There hasn’t been much mention at all in the mainstream media of District 6 candidate Monica Ratliff‘s role as both the union representative for her school and (more recently) a member of the United Teachers of Los Angeles House of Representatives. For example, the LA TImes‘ recent re-endorsement of Ratliff doesn’t make mention of it....
By Alexander Russo | May 2, 2013
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One Thing: Deasy Survey vs. Stull Evaluation
Here’s the UTLA survey on LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy’s performance that’s going out this week: For comparative purposes, here’s the current teacher evaluation form used by principals to evaluate teachers (as part of the so-called “Stull evaluation”).
By Alexander Russo | May 2, 2013
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Obama Education Secretary Endorses Parent Trigger — Sort Of
At an education conference in Burlingame earlier today, Obama education secretary Arne Duncan gave a muddled semi-endorsement of the controversial parent trigger law in California. Specifically, Duncan described the trigger as “an important tool” for parent involvement — but not the only or even the most important one. Duncan’s answer — which closely resembles the...
By Alexander Russo | May 1, 2013
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Video: EdTech / School Reform Event in San Francisco
There are lots of LA education folks up in Burlingame today at the NewSchools Venture Fund education summit, a one-day edtech/school reform confab. So far I’ve spotted Marco Petruzzi (Green Dot), Steve Barr (Future Is Now), and Stephanie Germeraad (Broad Center). Click here to check out the details, panels, speakers, and sponsors, or follow the...
By Alexander Russo | May 1, 2013