The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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Your #EDlection2018 primer: The facts, figures, and faces that will shape Tuesday’s primary
Tomorrow is California’s long-awaited primary, and education watchers are all-eyes on two races. At the top of the ticket is the governor, with 27 candidates. The most important question won’t be who comes in first — Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom maintains a commanding lead — but who makes it to the No. 2 spot. In...
By Laura Greanias | June 4, 2018
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LA parent voice: How can my kids be honor roll students and still not read or do math at grade level?
Every week, we sit down with Los Angeles parents to talk about their students, their schools, and what questions or suggestions they have for their school district. (See our previous interviews.) Lluvia Saenz, whose three kids attend LA Unified’s Huntington Park Elementary, made sure she was in the district’s school board auditorium when the new superintendent, Austin...
By Esmeralda Fabián Romero | May 30, 2018
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What if my child isn’t ready for the next grade but her school plans to move her up anyway? Here’s what parents can — and can’t — do
With the end of the school year nearing, students are celebrating as they move up to the next grade level. But not all parents are sure their kids are ready. Fewer than 4 in 10 LA Unified students are reading at grade level, even fewer are at grade level in math. But parents can’t hold...
By Esmeralda Fabián Romero | May 29, 2018
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Antonucci: Putting California school spending statistics in perspective
Mike Antonucci’s Union Report appears weekly at LA School Report. United Teachers Los Angeles held a large rally in Grand Park last week in support of the union’s demands for a new contract. UTLA is very eager to piggyback on the phenomenon of teacher walkouts in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona. California’s teachers have a much tougher...
By Mike Antonucci | May 29, 2018
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Starbucks shuts down Tuesday for racial bias training. Schools and teachers have been doing the same training for years — with mixed results
They were educators, not baristas, and copies of How Bear Lost His Tail lined the wall rather than promotions for the Ultra Caramel Frappuccino. But on a recent Friday afternoon, the staff of Coney Island Prep Elementary School in Brooklyn engaged in the same activity nearly 175,000 Starbucks employees will participate in today: racial bias...
By Brendan Lowe | May 29, 2018
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#EDlection2018: Your quick guide to the 4 candidates running for state superintendent & highlights from their interviews
*Updated May 29 A week from today is California’s primary, and four candidates are running for state Superintendent of Public Instruction. LA School Report interviewed all four on what makes for a high-quality school, how to engage parents, how to help the lowest-performing schools, why they’re running, and more. Here are edited highlights from each...
By Laura Greanias | May 29, 2018
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#EDlection 2018: Steven Ireland on why he’s running for state superintendent as ‘the parent candidate’
Steven Ireland is one of four candidates running for state Superintendent of Public Instruction. Ireland, 59, was the last to enter the race. He is nonpartisan, has never run for office before, and is running as “the parent candidate.” The only position he has held in education was PTA president at Toluca Lake Elementary School,...
By Esmeralda Fabián Romero | May 23, 2018
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#EDlection 2018: Lily Ploski on why she’s running for state superintendent as ‘the progressive third option’
Lily E. Ploski is one of four candidates running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. She is running as an independent. Ploski, 44, was raised in public schools in Orange County and Riverside County and attended community college at Diablo Valley College in the Bay Area, where she found her life’s passion to work in...
By Esmeralda Fabián Romero | May 23, 2018
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Antonucci: California school unions are ramping up campaign spending
Mike Antonucci’s Union Report appears weekly at LA School Report. The end of the school year is near, but public school employee unions won’t be stopping for summer vacation. They are making final preparations for California’s June 5 primary and the November general election. School unions have already committed millions to various campaigns and committees. For the...
By Mike Antonucci | May 22, 2018
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EdVoice’s Bill Lucia: Sacramento tries to sweep poor school performance under the rug
Sacramento politicians have turned their backs on children in California’s lowest-performing schools. In representing the state Board of Education and Superintendent Tom Torlakson in an official response released last week to a lawsuit filed against them in December 2017, California’s attorney general asserted that parents and taxpayers should not be able to complain if only...
By Bill Lucia | May 22, 2018