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District Touts Success of iPads Tonight on KLCS
Against a backdrop of “Let them eat iPads” from UTLA demonstrators and headlines like “The LA schools’ iPad adventure keeps getting worse,” it’s not surprising that LA Unified is seeking to offset what board member Tamar Galatzan calls a “blizzard of negative stories.” At 6 o’clock tonight on KLCS, the district is airing an hour-long iPad special, part of the “Technology in...
By Chase Niesner | November 21, 2013
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California is Only State Skipping Student Progress Survey*
A new survey shows how states are implementing data systems for evaluating students’ progress, but California, which has most public school students of any state, declined to participate this year. Patricia de Cos, Deputy Executive Director of the California State Board of Education, told LA School Report that her office was simply unable to fill out the requisite forms before...
By Chase Niesner | November 20, 2013
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A Mixed Fate from the Board for LA Unified Charter Applications
The LA Unified board voted on petitions for a number of charter schools at Tuesday’s meeting. Four requests were approved, one was denied while another current charter school’s status was suspended. Here’s the scorecard: Approved: Ánimo Avalon Charter Middle School, the Math and Science College Preparatory-East High School, the PUC Inspire Charter Academy Middle School, and...
By Chase Niesner | November 15, 2013
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Parents Ask LA Unified for Timely Sexual Assault Notification
Parents at Superior Street Elementary in Chatsworth last night pressed LA Unified officials to change district regulations so that the public is notified of sexual assaults on school campuses. At issue was a three-year-case that only came to light after the LA Times reported back in May that the district awarded damages of $1.4 million to...
By Chase Niesner | November 14, 2013
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UTLA Lampoons Deasy in Promoting Salary Rally
UTLA is planning a rally outside LA Unified headquarters at 4 p.m. tomorrow to demand pay raises. The protest comes on the one-year anniversary of Prop 30, a measure that raised state taxes to avert nearly $6 billion in cuts to public education. “We cannot allow the Superintendent to squander Prop 30 funds on pet...
By Chase Niesner | November 12, 2013
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LA Unified Magnet Application Deadline Fast Approaching
Currently, more than 64,000 students are enrolled in LA Unified magnet schools. That number is almost guaranteed to climb. The application deadline to enroll in one of the district’s 191 theme-based magnet schools for the 2014-15 school year is fast approaching. Online information and applications are available at echoices.lausd.net, with paper applications available at local...
By Chase Niesner | November 11, 2013
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LA Unified Scrambling to Count Numbers of Homeless Students
November is National Homeless Youth Awareness Month, and LA Unified’s Homeless Education Program is holding events to highlight the need to remove the educational barriers caused by homelessness. They are barriers the District is finding hard to overcome. Before 2006, there was one homeless student liaison for the entire district. Since the homeless program began that...
By Chase Niesner | November 7, 2013
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California Launches ‘Charter School Best Practices Project’
Charter schools now have a digital space to share the secrets to their success. The California Department of Education today announced the launching of the Charter Schools Best Practices Project, a trove of information aimed at assisting people interested in starting charter schools, evaluating charter school petitions and increasing student achievement in charter school classrooms. The project...
By Chase Niesner | November 5, 2013
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STEM Symposium Focusing on Encouraging More Girls
With implementation of the Common Core standards and Next Generation Science Standards in full swing, a symposium in Sacramento next month will bring together teachers, administrators, students and industry professionals to discuss betters ways to develop robust science, technology, and mathematics programs in local schools. The inaugural California STEM Symposium is sponsored by the Californians Dedicated to...
By Chase Niesner | October 30, 2013
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Civic Groups Rallying Support to Keep Deasy at LA Unified*
Whatever happens inside an LA Unified board room tomorrow, support for Superintendent John Deasy is building outside of it. Education advocacy groups unified as Communities for Los Angeles Student Success today announced they are holding a rally tomorrow morning at district headquarters to encourage Deasy not to resign and to call for an end to...
By Chase Niesner | October 28, 2013