Semi-annual financial disclosure forms for independent expenditure (IE) committees aren’t due to the City Ethics Commission until January 31. However, some information can be obtained from the City Ethics Commission in between these reports. For example, the Coalition for School Reform  — a group of advocates including (but not limited to) charter school proponents — raised...

LA School Report has learned that parents at 24th Street Elementary School, in concert with Parent Revolution, have been gathering signatures for a so-called “parent trigger” petition to revamp the struggling school and plan on delivering it to LAUSD offices this week. Mayor Villaraigosa is a vocal proponent of the parent trigger, along with a...

The Tuesday, January 15 board meeting promises to be even longer than usual, as it is packed with no less than 20 votes on various charter school issues and a slew of other controversial issues. For example, Board Members Tamar Galatzan and Nury Martinez are scheduled to propose a resolution related to speedy dismissal of...

The most recent quarterly campaign fundraising numbers are in (courtesy of the wonderful City Ethics Commission’s website), and the big winners so far are school board President Monica Garcia and challenger Kate Anderson. These figures cover direct contributions to the candidates’ campaigns, which are capped at $1,000 per person, through December 31. They don’t include...

What would a monthly school board meeting be without at least one shot across the bow from one board member to another? According to the just-released morning agenda for the Tuesday January 15 meeting (see here), board member Marguerite LaMotte will introduce a resolution limiting the School board President’s term to two consecutive years. Currently, the position of president...

Last night, the Los Angeles County Democratic Party voted to endorse Steve Zimmer and Antonio Sanchez for LAUSD school board. However, the question of whether or not to endorse Monica Garcia for East LA’s District 2 became the subject of a brief but spirited floor fight. “It hurts me to speak against her,” said former City...

The Coalition for School Reform will support Monica Garcia, Kate Anderson and Antonio Sanchez in their respective bids for LAUSD school board, according to paperwork filed with the Los Angeles Ethics Commission yesterday (you can see the form here). The endorsements of Garcia and Anderson were expected. There was something of a question mark over what...

This Thursday is the 4th quarterly filing deadline for municipal candidates (as well as independent expenditure committees), including those running for LAUSD school board, which will tell us how much money everyone raised during the last three months of 2012. It’s a sort of awkward period, since much of it occurred before candidates officially declared...

Classroom teachers will vote next week on whether or not to approve the new teacher evaluation system agreed to by UTLA leadership and John Deasy late last year. The tentative agreement, signed by UTLA President Warren Fletcher and Superintendent John Deasy on November 30, calls for a complex evaluation that would use a number of...

Two LAUSD School Board candidates — school library aide Franny Parrish and 4LAKids blogger Scott Folsom — say they paid a man named James T. Law to gather signatures needed to qualify for the ballot. The City clerk deemed too many of Folsom’s signatures invalid for him to qualify to be a candidate for District 2. As for...