The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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UTLA Lampoons Deasy in Promoting Salary Rally
UTLA is planning a rally outside LA Unified headquarters at 4 p.m. tomorrow to demand pay raises. The protest comes on the one-year anniversary of Prop 30, a measure that raised state taxes to avert nearly $6 billion in cuts to public education. “We cannot allow the Superintendent to squander Prop 30 funds on pet...
By Chase Niesner | November 12, 2013
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LA Unified Gets Next Installment for Common Core, $54 Million
California schools this week are receiving the second half of a $1.25 billion block grant from the state to support their move to the Common Core academic standards, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced today. Districts received the first half of the funds in September and the second half—about $622 million—today. LA Unified...
By LA School Report | November 12, 2013
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A Year Later, Proposition 30 ‘Great Savior for Schools’
Via the Los Angeles Daily News | By the San Jose Mercury News A little more than a year ago, Californians were locked in a fierce battle over Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s ballot initiative that raised income taxes on the wealthy and the sales tax on everyone. One side argued that the state needed...
By LA School Report | November 12, 2013
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Ratliff Seeks Alternatives to LA Unified’s iPads Future
The LA Unified school board will grapple with three separate resolutions regarding the district’s ambitious iPad project at its meeting today, but only Monica Ratliff’s proposal has the potential of drastically changing the course of the district’s ed-tech revolution. Ratliff is recommending that the district hold off on starting the second round of iPads distribution...
By Vanessa Romo | November 12, 2013
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Morning Read: Board Strikes a New Tone of Civility
Kumbaya at the L.A. school board? Editorial: The Los Angeles Unified school board members were conspicuously courteous to the administration staff and to one another at last week’s meeting, their first since the hullabaloo over Supt. John Deasy’s resignation threat. The board and Deasy smoothed that one over, but it was clear that the new, less...
By LA School Report | November 12, 2013
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Deasy Sells his Apple Stock, Eliminating iPad Conflict
LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy is expected to attend the school board tomorrow, following his absence from the special meeting last Tuesday that focused on technology issues. He had a legitimate excuse: His ownership of stock in Apple, Inc., created a conflict of interest, precluding his participation in conversations about the district’s on-going use of...
By LA School Report | November 11, 2013
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LA Unified Magnet Application Deadline Fast Approaching
Currently, more than 64,000 students are enrolled in LA Unified magnet schools. That number is almost guaranteed to climb. The application deadline to enroll in one of the district’s 191 theme-based magnet schools for the 2014-15 school year is fast approaching. Online information and applications are available at echoices.lausd.net, with paper applications available at local...
By Chase Niesner | November 11, 2013
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‘Trigger’ Parents Help Return Pre-K to 24th St. Elementary
By the first of the new year, 24th Street Elementary School in West Adams will open a new pre-kindergarten program, a victory for parents concerned with how children were performing in grades beyond. The change came about through California’s new Parent Empowerment Act, the so-called Parent Trigger Law, which lets parents implement changes that include...
By Jessica P. Ogilvie | November 11, 2013
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LA Unified Board to Address 2 Controversies — Vladovic, iPads*
Two issues that have the drawn LA Unified school board into unanticipated controversy move into the spotlight tomorrow when the board convenes its regular meeting for November. One is the public profile of Board President Richard Vladovic, as he awaits a consideration of a censure motion from Tamar Galatzan – the first motion of its...
By Vanessa Romo | November 11, 2013
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Morning Read: Restoring Title 1 Funding Cuts in LA Unfied
LAUSD board to consider change in poverty-aid funding Just two years ago, students at the Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies could get homework help, take college-prep classes, go on after-school field trips, visit the school nurse — services funded by federal money earmarked for educating low-income youngsters. Today, those programs have been scaled back...
By LA School Report | November 11, 2013