The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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More Schools Rush to Embrace Change in LA Unified*
*Oops. In a previous version of this story the chart mistakenly used “district control” instead of “district autonomy,” reversing the meaning of the graphic. Apologies to our readers. The Los Angeles public school landscape is undergoing an unmistakable shift, with schools adopting new models that ultimately will result in students getting more choices. In a...
By LA School Report | August 20, 2013
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Morning Read: State Supporting ‘Coaches’ For Common Core
New National Standards Pump Extra $113 Million into LA Unified The Los Angeles Unified School District will soon have an extra wad of cash on hand. It’s getting $113 million from the state of California over two years to phase in new national standards called the Common Core. School officials are presenting a proposed budget to...
By LA School Report | August 20, 2013
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Union Survey Finds Teachers Unprepared for Common Core
Hours after LA Unified announced results of a survey in which teachers expressed “high marks” for their training on iPads and the teaching content on them – the instructional tools for the new Common Core State Standards — the teacher’s union on Monday said its own survey found that a majority of teachers do not...
By LA School Report | August 19, 2013
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Melendez to Be Hired Under Unusual Salary Arrangement
Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana will be hired as Mayor Eric Garcetti’s director of education and workforce development, pending confirmation by the LA Unified School Board at its monthly meeting on Tuesday. “First and foremost, Mayor Garcetti wants to make LA students more career and college ready,” said Garcetti spokesman Yusef Robb. “That will require...
By Hillel Aron | August 19, 2013
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LA Unified Survey Finds Teacher Satisfaction with iPad Training
A survey by LA Unified has found that teachers and school staff “gave high marks” to the training they had on the iPads and digital content that are being phased into district schools this year. The overall degree of the satisfaction with the training was 5.5 out of 6, which was the highest score possible,...
By LA School Report | August 19, 2013
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Deasy to Board: Your Wish List Could Cost $1.4 Billion
LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy will tell the LAUSD School Board on Tuesday that its wish list for new hires and other programs will cost the district up to $1.4 billion at a time the district is still facing a deficit of $350 million. The board asked Deasy in June to develop spending proposals that...
By Hillel Aron | August 19, 2013
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Morning Read: Vladovic To Put New Vision on Display
L.A. Unified President Pushes Board’s Authority to Set Policy The new president of the Los Angeles Unified school board is moving aggressively to reshape the panel’s operation and mission, including plans to improve communication, enhance collaboration and take a more decisive stance in setting district policy. Richard Vladovic of San Pedro will lay out his...
By LA School Report | August 19, 2013
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Latest UTLA Survey Takes Aim at Common Core Readiness*
The teachers union is asking members to take yet another online survey — this one focusing on efforts by LA Unified to acclimate teachers to the challenges of the new Common Core curriculum. The introduction to the survey appears to reflect skepticism by union leadership about how the district is going about it, questioning why...
By Hillel Aron | August 16, 2013
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Board Preview: Deasy Will Present Hiring Options and Their Cost
When the LA Unified Board of Education meets on Tuesday, the first gathering time since the summer break, Superintendent John Deasy and his staff will present options for hiring more teachers, counselors and other employees — complete with price tags. “We will present for the board’s information the cost, for the year, of the some...
By Hillel Aron | August 16, 2013
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Perspectives on Teaching from Some of the Nation’s Best
Today, little is known collectively about the opinions and experiences of top performing teachers because researchers rarely focus specifically on them. Here’s a new study that does. The Perspectives of Irreplaceable Teachers from TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project) is a detailed survey of responses from 117 of America’s best teachers, as the report describes...
By LA School Report | August 16, 2013