Vladovic Defeats Galatzan for Board President In one of the more dramatic meetings in recent memory, the newly installed 2013-2014 LAUSD School Board selected Dr. Richard Vladovic (standing, left) as its next President by a vote of 5 to 2. LA School Report See also: LA Daily News, LA Times, KPCC Watts middle school students build...

Mini-dramas at L.A. Unified The Los Angeles Unified School District is in a period of possibly rocky transition. This coming and going is occurring at a time of apparent conflict between Supt. John Deasy and his elected bosses. LA Times (editorial page) See also: LA School Report, KPCC L.A. County Must Pay Millions to LAUSD...

2 LAUSD Officials Demoted, Principal Leaves over Handling of Sex-Abuse Complaints David Kooper, another subject of the inquiry, has been reinstated as principal of Gulf Avenue Elementary. In 2009, Kooper was chief of staff to South Bay school board member Richard Vladovic. Daily Breeze  LAUSD Loses Molestation Coverage in New Insurance Policies Facing multimillion dollar...

LAUSD Board Member Richard Vladovic Accused of Harassing Employees Attorneys will also look into allegations of harassment voiced by several district staff members who were interviewed by attorneys as part of a sex-abuse investigation involving an elementary school in Vladovic’s South Bay district. LA Daily News  Coalition of Attorneys Demand Broad Policy Changes at LAUSD...

Budget Detail Shows Almost all Districts Returning to Prerecession Funding Levels Under terms of what’s being called a “compromise” on Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula, districts will receive an average of about $537 more per student than was proposed in May by the governor. SI&A Cabinet Report  LAUSD Launches Website to Explain Miramonte Sex-Abuse Settlement...

Study: Charter School Students Show Reading Gains over Public Schools The nation’s charter school students showed more academic gains in reading than their public school counterparts did according to a new study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University. The study showed no difference in math performance between the two groups....

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....

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...

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...

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...