Today’s LA Times editorial page notes that several of the Board member budget resolutions being debated later today aren’t realistic or necessary. While there should be targeted hiring in key areas such as librarians and school counselors, according to the Times, the Bennett Kayser resolution to restore staffing levels across the board “makes no sense.”...

LAUSD May Seek Change to Parent Trigger Law Of the five times the law has been engaged in California, three were in the LAUSD, leading at least one board member to suggest tweaks to the way parent triggers work. California Report See also: LA School Report, KPCC, LA Times Tough Choices at LAUSD Union allies...

Here’s our massive (but still probably incomplete) listing of top education-related Twitter users in LA — including official and unofficial representatives from the district, the union, Board members, teacher activists, mainstream media, and bloggers. See yourself listed?  Be sure to tweet about it.  Not on the list, or know someone who should be?  Tweet about...

Facing its First Budget Increase in Years, LA Unified Board Members Set to Debate How to Spend it Los Angeles Unified School District’s board of education is set to vote Tuesday on next fiscal year’s budget. For the first time in years, members will not be faced with figuring out where to make drastic cuts....

Deasy and New Board Member Ratliff Laud Teacher Report Both were responding to recommendations in two reports developed by a small group of L.A.-area teachers under the guidance of Educators4Excellence, an advocacy group funded by influential national nonprofits including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation. LA Times See also: LA...

California’s New Transitional Kindergarten: A Glimpse into Universal Pre-K The 23 children in Azizi’s Winnetka classroom were a combination of Kindergarten and Transitional Kindergarten students. Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is the new grade level that California created for children who just missed the age cutoff for kindergarten.The new grade, which started this year, is meant to...

New K-12 Funding Formula Gets Thumbs Up from Local School Superintendents A compromise deal that would overhaul the funding system for California’s public schools was hailed Tuesday by education leaders who said it would channel more money to all districts, even in well-to-do suburbs, and give a bigger financial boost to those with large numbers...

Brown, Top Lawmakers Raise Base Funding in Finance Formula In a nod to suburban districts that argued they would be shortchanged, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders negotiated a new version of Brown’s plan for school finance reform that will increase the base funding level for all students and lower the extra dollars for some...