Warren Fletcher’s three-year term as UTLA President is heading into its last year, and while the teachers union election is a long way off it seems likely that he will face a challenger or two. One of the potential challengers is a teacher activist from Crenshaw High school.  The other is a current UTLA Vice...

Dr. Richard Vladovic (pictured) is the front-runner to become the next President of the LAUSD School Board, according to several School Board insiders and observers. Though he or his office did not respond to repeated requests for comment, Vladovic is said to covet the job. Moreover, he has the support of the teachers union and has...

Superintendent John Deasy told LA School Report that the passage of Governor Jerry Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula was “probably the most important education public policy decision in 40 years.” “This is beyond phenomenal,” he said. “I feel great.” The LA Times editorial page also praised Brown this morning, saying, “with his decisive and, yes, stubborn insistence on fixing what...

State lawmakers have reached an agreement with Governor Jerry Brown about how to overhaul state education funding that — while altered somewhat from Brown’s original proposal — will still be of substantial financial benefit to LAUSD. “I applaud Governor Brown and our legislators for their work on the compromise announced on the Local Control Funding Formula,”...

Over the recent Memorial Day weekend, NYU education historian Diane Ravitch penned a pair of angry blog posts about the parent trigger and Parent Revolution’s Ben Austin. Among other things, Ravitch wrote that “There is a special place in Hell reserved for everyone who administers and funds this revolting organization that destroys schools and fine...

On the education front, Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti is sounding just like candidate Eric Garcetti, always looking for a middle ground. On the issue of who his main education deputy or advisor will be, Garcetti spokesman Yusef Robb told KPCC’s Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: “We want to lower the temperature a little bit on the politics that have...

Starting in July, the composition and leadership of LAUSD’s School Board will change substantially. District 6’s Nury Martinez will be out, replaced by Monica Ratliff, and Monica Garcia will step down as Board President, thanks to term limits motion passed by the Board in March. But the shifts in direction for the Board are already...

Should Governor Jerry Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula go into effect more or less intact, districts like LAUSD will get a substantial increase in funding — but the district will also face a number of choices on how to distribute the new money. School Board member Tamar Galatzan has proposal that — as a new...

Marshall Tuck was 33 when Mayor Antonio VIllaraigosa asked him to leave his position at Green Dot Public Charter Schools to become the first CEO of a new entity called the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools. Six and a half years later — just a few weeks before Eric Garcetti takes over as the new...