The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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From trauma to turnout: Inside David Hogg’s $8M bid to elect young progressives
This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to reporting on gun violence. You can sign up for its newsletters here. In a video posted to YouTube, 24-year-old school shooting survivor David Hogg points to a whiteboard and outlines a five-step plan to reshape America. Ever since Hogg survived the...
By Mark Keierleber | September 11, 2024
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As a new school year begins, ensuring all students feel a sense of belonging
This year, I’ve been speaking with everyday Americans to hear their ideas about the purpose of public schools and how to improve them. One aspiration cuts across all perspectives: Everyone wants their children to feel a sense of belonging in school. Parents can’t understand why this isn’t more of a priority in education policy, and...
By Ross Wiener | September 10, 2024
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Study: State report cards need big improvements in tracking COVID learning loss
Most people who know me would probably say I’m a data and accountability advocate. I’m on the board of the Data Quality Campaign and I’ve written extensively (and favorably) about the role of accountability in promoting educational improvement. But I’ve also been critical of accountability, especially so-called public accountability organized around the idea that parents...
By Morgan Polikoff | September 9, 2024
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50 years after FERPA’s passage, ed privacy law needs an update for the AI era
Aug. 21 marks 50 years since the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) was passed into law. Back then, student privacy looked a lot different than it does today: The classrooms and textbooks of yesteryear presented much less risk than Google or artificial intelligence do, but education officials still had growing concerns over databases...
By Ariel Fox Johnson | September 5, 2024
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Young people get voting. They are less sure about how to exercise their voice
It is a bromide in a presidential election year to fret that young people will not turn out to vote, and that the election will therefore be dominated — as in so many past years — by wealthy older voters. As thoughtful observers have already pointed out, that notion is — statistically and philosophically — a red...
By Stephanie J. Hull | September 4, 2024
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Before LAUSD invests more in AI, let’s talk about affordable internet, devices for all
In the last few weeks news media outlets have reported problems with Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) new AI chatbot portal. But while district officials work through the program’s kinks, for many Latino and Indigenous families, talk about the use of advanced technologies to improve or simplify communication with schools is daunting. Even parents...
By Evelyn Alemán | September 3, 2024
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Hey, students: Want a good job? Become a teacher
Hey, young people: Want a good job? You might consider becoming a teacher. You won’t get rich, but teachers earn more money than you might think. Plus, you’ll have a much easier time landing (and keeping) a job than many of your peers. This might sound like counterintuitive career advice given the current state of...
By Chad Aldeman | August 29, 2024
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Long a stranger to the spotlight, child tax credit earns embrace of both parties
The Child Tax Credit isn’t a subject you’d expect to receive much attention in the middle of a heated presidential campaign. Somewhat technocratic in nature, invisible to a large share of the electorate, the benefit was established in 1997 to provide relief to parents while their kids were young. Its reach is impressive, granting up...
By Kevin Mahnken | August 28, 2024
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LA Unified is still struggling with chronic absenteeism years after the pandemic. Here’s why this matters
A week before classes at Los Angeles Unified began earlier this month, attendance workers tasked with fighting chronic absenteeism fanned out across the city, visiting the homes of children to make sure they’d show up for the first day of instruction. Knocking on the doors where kids had repeatedly missed school, the workers told parents...
By Ben Chapman | August 27, 2024
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Poll: Americans want next president to focus on workforce prep, hiring teachers
Heading into a divisive national election, a new poll shows that when it comes to education, at least, Americans overwhelmingly agree that the next president should focus on two things: preparing students for careers and attracting top teachers who will stay in the profession. “There are clear priorities that overwhelming numbers of Americans on both...
By Linda Jacobson | August 26, 2024