L.A. Unified Board Will Back Classroom Breakfast Program A majority of L.A. Unified School Board members said they will vote to continue a classroom breakfast program that feeds nearly 200,000 children but was in danger of being axed after sharp criticism by the teachers union. LA Times See also: LA School Report, KPCC The Messy...

The LAUSD School Board elections will soon be over, but there are lots of big issues and decisions that will follow.  Take a look at the following job announcement and let us know if you think you or someone you know might be right for the spot(s): LA School Report, an independent daily news site devoted...

First Academic Study of Controversial LA Unified Teacher Evaluation Program An academic study of a teacher evaluation method that looks at how much teachers are able to improve students’ test scores gave the pilot program a good grade. But the study comes too late — the teacher’s union and Los Angeles Unified School District agreed...

It’s not every day that an upstart online news site like ours gets the attention of a big mainstream media outlet. But it’s happened today — twice, in fact: The editorial page of the Los Angeles Times gives LA School Report credit for prompting a reassessment of its endorsement of East Valley School Board candidate Monica Ratliff. On the...

L.A. Unified Classroom Breakfasts May Be Axed, Deasy Says An L.A. Unified classroom breakfast program feeding nearly 200,000 children but sharply criticized by the teachers union will be eliminated next year unless school board members vote to reinstate it, Supt. John Deasy said Thursday. LA Times Decrease in Pink Slips Thanks to Prop 30 The...

Rumor of Deal Roils Teachers Union The leadership of the Los Angeles teachers union is roiled over whether its officials made a private deal with a Board of Education candidate whom critics view as an ally of anti-labor forces. LA Times New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Donates $350,000 to LAUSD Reformer’s Campaign With the runoff...

Here’s an iconic picture of Sal Castro, the LAUSD teacher and activist who played a big role in the 1960s student walkouts and who passed away earlier this week. Read more: LA Times, KPCC. IDEA, LA Weekly

AirTalk, KPCC’s half-hour interview/call-in segment with LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy from earlier in the week includes the Superintendent’s comments and answers on hot-button topics including teacher evaluations, the parent trigger, layoffs and furloughs, student rights, and the UTLA poll on his performance.

Mayoral Candidates Greuel, Garcetti go Head to Head Even if it was Greuel who came out with a stronger-sounding defense of “choice” on Thursday night, loudly proclaiming her support for the “parent trigger” law, which allows parents to vote out a school’s administration and bring in a new operator, Garcetti, who has been endorsed by...

The LA Times editorial page has established its independence on education issues several times in recent months — through its candidate endorsements and its views on charter school accountability, teacher evaluations, the parent trigger, and teacher dismissal proposals (among several examples). So it’s all the more striking that editorial page writer Karin Klein took to the newspaper’s pages yesterday to denounce the...