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Morning Read: District Prepares for Common Core
Districts to Get $1.25 billion to Implement Common Core With uncommon speed, school districts and charter schools this fall will receive substantial money they didn’t foresee coming their way a few months ago to prepare for the Common Core standards. The catch: They first have to tell the public how they plan to use it....
By LA School Report | June 24, 2013
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Watch: School Board’s Nine-Hour Meeting
In case you missed any of it (or simply don’t have enough to do this weekend), here’s the full June School Board meeting from earlier this week — all nine hours of it — courtesy of LAUSD.
By LA School Report | June 21, 2013
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People: Local Reformer Named to “Top Ten” List
Ryan Smith, director of education programs and policy at United Way of Greater Los Angeles, has been named one of Education Week‘s Ten People Who Are Changing Education Today — an annual list of under-35 reformers and innovators who might not yet be on your radar but should (or soon will) be. According to his LinkedIn, Smith...
By LA School Report | June 21, 2013
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Morning Read: District Renews College Prep Efforts
LAUSD Studying New Curriculum Plans Los Angeles Unified’s incoming freshmen class will be the first that will have to pass a rigorous college-prep curriculum with a “C” in order to get a diploma, which has district officials scrambling to identify and replicate successful programs that can get and keep students on track to graduation, Superintendent...
By LA School Report | June 21, 2013
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Update: Deasy, Zimmer Attend College Readiness Event
KPCC’s Adolfo Guzman-Lopez has been sending out tweets about this morning’s conference on the district’s academic requirements. For example: @DrDeasyLAUSD taking part in conf. on 2016 requirement that HS seniors graduate #UC ready #AGForAll Top schools at #LAUSD falling short of 8 yr old A-G policy: 64% of grads at LA Center For Enriched Studies were UC ready in 2011 #LAUSD board...
By LA School Report | June 20, 2013
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Morning Read: Budget Simplifies Special Ed Funding
Budget Simplifies Special Education Money Under the new spending plan, the state is doing away with the involved, multi-step calculation used to determine funding for Special Education Local Planning Areas and replacing it with one based on average daily attendance. SIA Cabinet Report LAUSD Teacher Pleads Not Guilty to West Hills Murder of Wife Michelle...
By LA School Report | June 20, 2013
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Events: Leaders to Talk College Readiness
On Thursday morning, Supt. Deasy, Board member Zimmer and policy analysts from Alliance for a Better Community (ABC) and UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA) will gather to discuss a new report on the status of the A-G program. Passed eight years ago, the “A-G” resolution (a reference to graduation requirements needed to...
By LA School Report | June 19, 2013
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Watch: Board Naming School After First Lady
This CBS News segment describes how LAUSD has decided to name a Valley school after First Lady Michelle Obama. Click the link to see the video, or click here to see a video clip about the iPad decision.
By LA School Report | June 19, 2013
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Morning Read: Board Buys iPads, Revises Trigger
LAUSD Board Passes $6.2 Billion Budget The Los Angeles Unified school board passed a $6.2 billion budget for 2013-14 on Tuesday, the first time in five years that deep cuts and gut-wrenching layoffs haven’t been part of the financial plan. LA Daily News LAUSD Spending $30 million to Buy 30,000 iPads for Students The Los...
By LA School Report | June 19, 2013
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Live: School Board Meeting
Want to know what’s happening at today’s LAUSD Board meeting as it happens? We’re live-tweeting the event: [widgets_on_pages id=”Twitter Live Posts”]
By LA School Report | June 18, 2013