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Morning Read: Add Mayoral Candidate to Today’s Big Board Meeting
LAUSD Agenda Today Topped By Breakfast Program, Suspension Policy Demonstrators began gathering early Tuesday outside Los Angeles Unified headquarters, where the school board was expected to decide the fate of the Breakfast in the Classroom program, whether to ban student suspensions for “willful defiance” and funding for key programs.” The agenda for the noontime meeting covers...
By LA School Report | May 14, 2013
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Mayoral Candidates Lack Commitment Reformers & Teachers Want
“For the reformers, the only concern is that Greuel seems not as willing as the current mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, to take big risks for the cause.” writes the LA Weekly‘s Gene Maddaus in his latest piece. “For the teachers’ unions who backed Garcetti, the concern is that while he would be better than Greuel, he might not...
By LA School Report | May 13, 2013
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Morning Read: Cracking Down on Misconduct
LAUSD Cracks Down on Teacher Misconduct; 100 Fired, 200 Resign, 300 ‘Housed’ Under the zero-tolerance policy that Deasy enacted after the Miramonte Elementary sex-abuse scandal erupted in February 2012, the school board has voted to dismiss more than 100 teachers for misconduct, and accepted the resignations of at least 200 others who were about to...
By LA School Report | May 13, 2013
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Mayoral Candidates Divided by High School
Though they both started out in the Valley, Mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti have followed separate paths since then, notes today’s LA Times piece. Nowhere are these differences more apparent than in the two candidates’ educational backgrounds. Greuel went to John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills, an LAUSD school. Garcetti graduated from the...
By LA School Report | May 10, 2013
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Read This: Why Teachers Are Battling Free Classroom Breakfast
“Ending the breakfast program in Los Angeles could cause thousands of kids to start the school day hungry,” begins this recent TakePart story by Vanessa Romo. “So why are teachers against it?” The piece describes the classroom breakfast program that’s supposed to take the first 15 minutes of school, highlights the other districts around the...
By LA School Report | May 10, 2013
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Morning Read: Latinos Narrow Education Gap
Similar Records, but L.A. Mayoral Candidates Inhabit Different Worlds Born and raised in the Valley, Wendy Greuel still lives there. Eric Garcetti grew up there too, but moved around before settling in the ‘tri-hipster’ area of Hollywood, Silver Lake and Echo Park. LA Times Why Are Women Practically Nonexistent on L.A. City Council? The Martinez-Montanez...
By LA School Report | May 10, 2013
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Tuesday Board Agenda
Take a look at Tuesday’s official LAUSD School Board “Order of Business” and see if anything jumps out at you as new, notable, or particularly surprising: Report back to us here in comments or at @laschoolreport.
By LA School Report | May 9, 2013
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Open Enrollment Season Now Until May 24
As of Monday, May 6, Los Angeles families can obtain open enrollment transfer applications at their child’s current LAUSD school or at any LAUSD school for the 2013-14 school year. The deadline for applications is Friday, May 24. More information is available here. The enrollment application can be found here. As part of the state-mandated open enrollment...
By LA School Report | May 9, 2013
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Morning Read: Uncertain Effectiveness of Computer Tablets
Jury’s still out on educational value of iPad apps But no agency is making sure that an application labeled as “educational” really is — or that it’s appropriate for the age group it targets. That leaves many parents of preschoolers are in a quandary: to iPad or not to iPad? And what age is appropriate...
By LA School Report | May 9, 2013
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Listen: Garcetti & Gruel Debate Education
You can listen to a rebroadcast of yesterday’s Mayoral education debate while you read coverage of the event here and here.
By LA School Report | May 8, 2013