L.A. school board to review $1-billion iPad project The Los Angeles Board of Education has scheduled a special Oct. 29 meeting to review efforts to provide iPads to every student and teacher in the nation’s second-largest school system. The meeting was proposed by board member Monica Ratliff, who chairs a district committee that is overseeing...

via KPCC | By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez Latinos scored a hundred points less than their white counterparts on this year’s California’s Academic Performance Index – and more than 150 points below Asian students — a sign that, despite a decade of effort, educators have failed to close the achievement gap for the state’s largest minority group. As a group, Latinos...

Eugene Selivanov and his wife, Tatyana Berkovich, will be back in an Los Angeles County Superior Court tomorrow, asking the judge to grant them a new trial in a case that the California Charter Schools Association says affects other charters within the LA Unified school district. The two were found guilty in April of misappropriating...

Brown signs bill delaying exams despite Duncan’s threat With threats of federal repercussions waylaid by the government shutdown, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed a bill that suspends most standardized tests and replaces them with a no-stakes field test aligned to the new Common Core standards. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan previously threatened to...

L.A. Unified can’t afford $1-billion budget wish list, official says L.A. Unified will need more than $1 billion to pay for additional teachers, a longer school year and other items favored by Board of Education members — but the chance of acquiring such funds is zero, the district’s financial chief said Tuesday. Board members had...

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With growing opposition around the country to the Common Core State Standards, one governor found an easy way to get rid of them: Change the name. Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona, feeling pressure from groups that believe the standards are a “federal intrusion,” has ordered state agencies to stop using the term “Common Core.’’ Instead, she has...