House Votes to Shift No Child Left Behind Oversight to States For the first time in a dozen years, the House of Representatives passed a significant education bill on Friday, rewriting No Child Left Behind, President George W. Bush’s signature law governing how federal funds are spent in public schools. NY Times LAUSD’s Grumpy Old...

Is Charter School Co-Location Tearing Public Schools Apart? The practice of housing a traditional public school and a charter school on the same campus is known as “co-location.” Charters are publicly funded yet independently operated, and are intended to encourage innovation and improve student performance. Under Proposition 39 charter schools were given the right to...

Council District 6 Candidates Battle Over Teacher Abuse Issue Accusations of a cover-up involving a Pacoima teacher charged with molesting school children are roiling the District 6 race, prompting personal confessions and counterattacks. Candidate Nury Martinez, a former school board member, revealed this week she was molested as a 3-year-old by her Van Nuys neighbor....

There’s a new Congressman who used to teach at Rialto High School named Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA), and he’s spending some of his time in Washington, DC marking up Dear Colleague letters with a red pen and sharing them with the public, according to a blog called HappyPlace: “Included in his comments are some words we haven’t...

CORE Districts to Make Final Personal Pitch for No Child Left Behind Waiver Quickly running out of time, a delegation from nine California school districts will go to Washington this week to make a last pitch to federal officials for a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law. Districts are up against deadlines for...

California Holds Out Against Obama’s Education Vision California has defiantly refused to follow the administration’s lead in grading the performance of teachers and using those measurements to reward the best teachers and punish the worst. The state is one of very few that have told Washington that under no conditions will it put in place...