LA School Report

L.A. teachers launch union drive at Alliance charter schools Teachers at the largest charter school organization in LA have launched a drive to unionize. Los Angeles Times School reserve cap could harm long-term capital projects Sources said last week that school administrator and finance groups, seeking a repeal of the reserve cap, have met with...

The food fight over Breakfast in the Classroom rages on as another LA Unified school is attempting to kill the program before it gets started. A group of parents at Paul Revere Charter Middle School in Santa Monica is petitioning the district for a waiver from the morning meal program next year, claiming that it’s...

Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department descended on Venice High School this morning and arrested eight juvenile male students for allegedly sexually assaulting two female students, according to media reports. A ninth student was arrested off campus, and at least five other students are also being sought by police. At a press conference, LAPD Cmdr....

By Diane Ravitch | Ed Source Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s commentary for EdSource last month, called “How Not to Fix No Child Left Behind,” consisted for the most part of mushy platitudes that must be measured against the realities of his actions over the past six years. During that time, Duncan has aggregated an...

California teacher layoffs up slightly this year Layoffs are up slightly this year from last. But they’re overwhelmingly lower than during the recession. Capital Pubic Radio Fourth-grade teacher at LA School arrested, suspected of child abuse Thelmo Garcia, a fourth-grade teacher at Rosewood Elementary School, on Croft Avenue, was arrested off campus Wednesday. NBC Los...

A meeting yesterday of UTLA’s political action committee, PACE, concluded with no decision to endorse LA Unified School Board President Richard Vladovic or his opponent, Lydia Gutierrez. Vladovic was forced into May runoff against Gutierrez, a veteran educator who is anti-Common Core, pro-Vergara and Republican. It was an unusually close race for Vladovic after serving...

Close readers of LA School Report might notice how infrequently LA Unified board member George McKenna is quoted in any story, apart from comments he makes at board meetings. There’s a reason for that, as I was reminded again yesterday in an email from him, and it’s a reason that both saddens me and, I...

L.A. Unified ends effort to close embattled charter schools LAUSD has dropped efforts to shut down three campuses operated by an embattled charter school chain. Los Angeles Times SBE OKs rubric format but what to measure? The Board of Education approved the design of a new tool that will be used to measure how well...