The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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UTLA Factions Lining Up to Oust Fletcher as President
Campaign season for UTLA began in ernest this weekend at the union’s annual leadership conference with one slate of members emerging as the leading opposition group to incumbents and other candidates testing the waters. “Unions have to be unified to do whatever they do,” said LAUSD Adult Education teacher Matthew Kogan. “But democratic processes are divisive. We...
By Hillel Aron | August 6, 2013
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Morning Read: CA Getting Ready for Start of Common Core
State Begins Work Revising Teacher Preparation Based on Common Core The plan comes forward as public schools in California are already transitioning to new curriculum standards based on a set of national goals in math and English language arts – with new common science standards soon to be ready for adoption. SI&A Parent-Trigger Efforts Force Two...
By LA School Report | August 6, 2013
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Fiery Speech by UTLA Chief Gets Mixed Response From Members
Teachers union President Warren Fletcher delivered a fiery speech to more than 400 UTLA chapter chairs and activists on Saturday, using language more suited to a situation room than a classroom. “UTLA is under attack,” he said at the union’s leadership conference in Los Angeles “We are still at war.” His closing line sounded a battle cry: “Let us take the...
By Hillel Aron | August 5, 2013
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Morning Read: Ratliff Tells UTLA Public Likes Teachers, Not Union
L.A. Teachers Union Urged to Improve Training for Bad Teachers Monica Ratliff, a fifth-grade teacher who pulled off an upset win in May for the Los Angeles Board of Education, told more than 400 leaders of United Teachers Los Angeles that the public likes teachers but distrusts labor unions. LA Times Parent-Trigger Efforts in L.A....
By LA School Report | August 5, 2013
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Challengers to Fletcher Could Emerge at UTLA Conference
The teachers union’s annual Leadership Conference starts today (click here to see the program), and perhaps the biggest question on members’ minds is who will rise to challenge UTLA President Warren Fletcher as he seeks reelection in January. Filing won’t officially begin until December, but the campaign season begins today. “Most slates [of candidates] are...
By Hillel Aron | August 2, 2013
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The Buzz: Thelma Melendez Likely to Run Garcetti’s Education Team
As Mayor Eric Garcetti considers his top education appointment, one name is generating more buzz than any other — Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana. Melendez, 55, recently ended a short, two-year tenure as Superintendent of Santa Ana Unified School District, the sixth largest in the state, with 58,000 students and a $483 million budget. She...
By Hillel Aron | August 2, 2013
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Morning Read: Teacher Ratings Ruled in Public Interest
L.A. Unified Teachers Ratings Should Be Disclosed, Judge Rules The performance ratings of individual teachers in the city school district are matters of keen public interest and should be released to the Los Angeles Times, a judge ordered Thursday. LA Times Art Teacher’s Angry Letter Prompts Suspension by LAUSD A Van Nuys art teacher who...
By Hillel Aron | August 2, 2013
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LA Teachers Proposing Online Voting System for Union Elections
Less than 23 percent of the 40,000 members of United Teachers of Los Angeles cast ballots in the final round of voting for union president in 2011, the union’s last leadership election. Even fewer, 15 percent, voted in the preliminary round. A new, online voting system could change all that, says a group of teachers...
By Brianna Sacks | August 1, 2013
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LAUSD school meals get healthy makeover by students
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj6d0Q-1BFk&feature=youtube_gdata&w=400] KABC features a student culinary education program called “Cooking Up Change” featuring students at West Adams High – part of a program at LAUSD to promote healthy eating.
By LA School Report | August 1, 2013
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LA Unified Sees Big Rise in AP Enrollment and Exams
Fifty percent more L.A. Unified students in grades nine through 12 signed up for Advanced Placement courses in the last academic year than the number who did six years before, Superintendent John Deasy said in a press release Wednesday. Nearly 18 percent enrolled in AP courses in biology, calculus, chemistry, English literature, foreign languages, government...
By Brianna Sacks | August 1, 2013