LA School Report

LA Unified is urging the Public Employment Relations Board to dismiss the teacher’s union’s unfair labor practice charge, filed in June. The nine-page district response, dated August 15 and posted today by the LA Daily News, outlines a series of reasons that the district says shows that the charges are without merit. The issue at hand is over...

On the first day of school last week, students at Crenshaw High School showed up in uniform. It’s the first time the school has ever instituted a dress code, and Principal Remon Corley was relieved when about 90 percent of students walked through the campus’s blue gates dressed in gold, black, blue, and white polo...

Via The Hill, By Justin Sink President Obama phoned a Georgia elementary school bookkeeper who talked a 20-year-old armed with an AK-47 assault rifle into surrendering, according to the White House. Antoinette Tuff, who has worked for the DeKalb County school district in Georgia for eight years, became an overnight celebrity for her actions. Suspect...

Charters and LA Unified Fighting Over Space on Shared Campuses The Los Angeles Unified School District filed papers with the state Supreme Court this week opposing a claim by charter schools that the district is hogging space on campuses, in violation of a voter-approved initiative. The case involves co-location – when a charter and traditional public...

Los Angeles Unified schools were named the leading elementary/middle and high school charters in California, according to the seventh-annual USC School Performance Dashboard, a report that was released today. Synergy Charter Academy was ranked best in the elementary/middle school category, and High Tech LA topped the high schools. LA Unified placed six charters among the...

California’s high school graduates are outperforming the national average in meeting college readiness benchmarks, according to the latest ACT assessments. But the same study also finds that state graduates are making only modest gains, if any, in the four subject areas measured – English, reading, math and science. Overall, a third of California’s ACT-tested high school...

Tim Donnelly, a Republican state lawmaker who is running for governor in 2014, has an idea. He wants to spend $500,000 of his campaign funds to find the state’s “worst” and “best” teachers, using the money to help remove the “worst” teacher and celebrate the “best teacher.” He’s predicting “thousands of people” will send in...

Students at San Pedro High School are getting a bonus this year. In what may be the first such opportunity for its students, advanced classes will count toward college credit at Marymount California University, a private, four-year, liberal arts college in Rancho Palos Verde. San Pedro High is one of 11 public, private or charter...