The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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All sides push for earlier inclusion of charters as LAUSD readies its Unified Enrollment site
LA Unified is preparing to launch this fall its new and easier way to apply to different kinds of schools within the district, but the system is not going to include charter schools. Not yet, anyway. And that’s not acceptable to stakeholders throughout the district, even those usually on opposite sides of the table. The Unified Enrollment...
By Mike Szymanski | March 1, 2017
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Pedro Noguera: Why LA’s low voter turnout will deny a high-quality education to those who need it most
By Pedro Noguera Turnout is expected to be low for the March 7 primary election even though the results may very well determine the future of public education in Los Angeles. The nation’s second-largest school district is beset by a number of complex challenges: daunting structural budget deficits, declining student enrollment, a significant number of...
By Guest contributor | March 1, 2017
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Meet an LAUSD school board candidate — District 6’s Araz Parseghian
LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Araz Parseghian Board district: 6 Job: loan officer who has worked in the finance field for 17 years. He has served on the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council and the Professional Child Development Associates Board. He currently serves on the boards of the LA Valley College...
By LA School Report | February 28, 2017
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Why is there so much money being spent in this school board race? District 4 candidates respond
LA Unified’s District 4 school board race has prompted more than half a dozen candidate forums, a constant stream of mailers, commercials, and phone calls, and near-record campaign spending. But it wasn’t until Monday night’s forum at the Skirball Cultural Center that the big question was asked publicly. “Why is there so much money being spent...
By Mike Szymanski | February 28, 2017
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Commentary: The reason unions fight in school board races
By Aaron Churchill Electoral politics are front and center as Los Angeles voters prepare to cast their ballots for three school board seats on March 7. Not surprisingly, the races have heated up — and gotten expensive. Independent expenditure committees funded by teachers unions have forked over $1.2 million to support incumbent board President Steve...
By Guest contributor | February 28, 2017
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Meet an LAUSD school board candidate — District 6’s Gwendolyn Posey: ‘Parents, students, and teachers desperately need an advocate’
LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Gwendolyn R. Posey Board district: 6 Job: event planner, community activist, and advocate LAUSD schools attended: Pacoima Elementary School, Maclay Junior High School, and Polytechnic High School Children in LAUSD Schools? Yes, two graduates and a sixth-grader. Platform: school safety (increasing the LAUSD...
By LA School Report | February 27, 2017
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Commentary: When big money becomes the new normal — contrasting LA’s and Denver’s school board races
By Beth Hawkins At the start of the decade, a survey of elected school board members found a whopping 87 percent spent $5,000 or less on their most recent campaign. Even in larger districts, those with at least 15,000 students, only 10 percent spent $25,000 or more, the National School Boards Association reported. What an...
By Guest contributor | February 27, 2017
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Meet an LAUSD school board candidate — District 4’s Steve Zimmer: ‘This election is about losing children to the charter movement’
LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Steve Zimmer Board district: 4 Age: 46 Lives in: Hollywood Job: two terms on LA Unified’s school board, adjunct instructor at Occidental College in the Urban and Environmental Policy Department Married: No Children in LAUSD: No LAUSD schooling: No...
By Mike Szymanski | February 27, 2017
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Unreported UTLA spending comes under review as official outside money in LAUSD board race tops $4 million
With just over a week to go before the primary election, outside spending in the LA Unified school board race has topped $4 million with pro-charter and education reform groups making up more than half that total, while an unknown amount has been spent by UTLA on a public relations campaign in support of board...
By Sarah Favot | February 24, 2017
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Tucker Haynes: Why ‘Hidden Figures’ should be required viewing at every U.S. school
It took a devastating World War and the threat of domination by an expansionist Communist empire to propel the government of the United States past its prejudices. It was in 1943 — when the country desperately needed every competent mathematician it could find — that Dorothy Vaughan, a black female math teacher in Virginia, went...
By Cynthia Tucker Haynes | February 24, 2017