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Successful appeal put teacher in LAUSD’s top 10 salary list
The release of salary records for all LA Unified employees by the Los Angeles Daily News on Friday produced a list of the district’s highest paid officials in 2014, with one apparent anomaly: an elementary school teacher. While nine of the top ten earners are headquarters administrators, starting with former Superintendent John Deasy, who made $439,998 the year...
By Vanessa Romo | March 23, 2015
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Commentary: HBO’s hipster show ‘lies’ about charter schools, race
By Joshua Leibner | Salon Michelle Pierson, a 40-ish mother of two, is in a state of confusion over her direction in life and finds herself wandering down the main drag of her gentrifying, hip Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood. She hears a confident voice coming from Eagle Rock City Hall that entices her in. Inside,...
By LA School Report | March 23, 2015
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Morning Read: LAUSD releases salary info for all employees
Former LAUSD superintendent Deasy’s pay nearly $440,000 last year LA Unified’s former superintendent, John Deasy, collected more than any other employee last year, $439,998. San Gabriel Valley Tribune LAUSD educators typically earned $75,504 last year The typical Los Angeles Unified educator collected $75,504 in 2014, according to pay records. Whitter Daily News Granada Hills wins...
By LA School Report | March 23, 2015
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Stoner parents challenging LAUSD for extending co-location deadline
Yet again, LA Unified finds itself in the soup because of a computer malfunction. Friends of Stoner, a group fighting to block the co-location of another charter school at Stoner Avenue Elementary in Palms, has met with lawyers to discuss legal options against LA Unified for extending the application deadline by three days. Frustrated Stoner...
By Vanessa Romo | March 20, 2015
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Schmerelson ‘feeling pretty good’ after making District 3 runoff
*UPDATED Scott Schmerelson says he is “feeling pretty good” these days, and the longtime LA Unified educator, counselor and principal certainly has lots of reasons for it. Schmerelson emerged from a logjam of five challengers to finish second in the March 3 school board primary election, good enough to make the May 19 runoff against District...
By Craig Clough | March 20, 2015
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Commentary: New book examines ‘social air bags’ for rich kids
By Doyle McManus | Los Angeles Times What’s the difference between growing up in an affluent family and growing up poor in America? Yes, upper-middle-class kids have more money. But they also have more attentive parents, stable families, good teachers — and even more friends and acquaintances. As a result, well-off kids have one more...
By LA School Report | March 20, 2015
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Morning Read: Parent sues LAUSD for teacher’s alleged racial slurs
Parent sues LAUSD after teacher reportedly used racially charged comments A Brentwood parent is suing the school district, charging that a male teacher made offensive and racially charged comments in his class. CBS Los Angeles 66 California teams competing in 3-day academic decathlon Twenty teams from Los Angeles-area schools will be in Sacramento Friday to...
By LA School Report | March 20, 2015
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LA Unified’s new Arts Equity Index finds ‘art poverty’ in district
LA Unified officials yesterday unveiled results of the Arts Equity Index, the most comprehensive arts inventory the district has ever taken, and the findings show the district has a bad case of “art poverty.” Very few of the district’s 650,000 students have access to robust and uninterrupted arts programs from elementary school through high school,...
By Vanessa Romo | March 19, 2015
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Westchester wins Aspen Challenge; $100k to fix LAUSD instruments
A team from Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnet won first place in the 2015 Aspen Challenge: Los Angeles competition at last Saturday, beating out teams from 15 other schools. The challenge asked students to propose solutions to global problems, and Westchester’s 10-member team took on water sustainability awareness in Los Angeles, according to a LA Unified press...
By Craig Clough | March 19, 2015
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Commentary: Fewer being inspired to join teaching ranks
By Stephen Mucher | Los Angeles Times Los Angeles teachers and school district administrators are doing battle once again. Contract talks broke down last month after 18 rounds of negotiations on raises, healthcare costs, class size, employee evaluation and charter schools. Mediation begins next week. Strike language and recriminations grow louder. Given the potential long-term...
By LA School Report | March 19, 2015