The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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With Few Leadership Options, LA Teachers Drop Out
“Dear Mayor of Los Angeles,” Educators 4 Excellence writes in the introduction of a new report that contends LAUSD’s most effective teachers don’t have enough leadership opportunities to keep them in their classrooms. The new report, STEP: Supporting Teachers as Empowered Professionals, aims to reverse L.A. Unified’s high turnover rate, close to 50 percent according...
By Brianna Sacks | July 18, 2013
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Morning Read: Public and Charter Schools An Uneasy Partnership?
Is Charter School Co-Location Tearing Public Schools Apart? The practice of housing a traditional public school and a charter school on the same campus is known as “co-location.” Charters are publicly funded yet independently operated, and are intended to encourage innovation and improve student performance. Under Proposition 39 charter schools were given the right to...
By LA School Report | July 18, 2013
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Psst! Over Here! Vote for Us!
Just shy of our first anniversary, LA School Report has been named a finalist for Best Political Blog in LA Weekly’s 2013 Web Awards. We think we are the best, but we need votes to make it happen. So click here to jump into the voting booth – scroll down to category No. 11 and...
By LA School Report | July 17, 2013
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Analysis: Politics Could Affect LAUSD Waiver Approval
As reported yesterday in LA School Report, LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy and others are in Washington today, making a final push to persuade the Obama Education Department to approve its revised application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2002 federal education law. Superintendent Deasy has said that a NCLB waiver would free up...
By Alexander Russo | July 17, 2013
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Martinez v. Montanez Gets Ugly
Remember former School Board member Nury Martinez? She’s locked in a tough runoff with Cindy Montanez for the last open City Council seat. Whoever wins will be the only woman on the 15-member body. Montanez, who finished 19 points ahead of Martinez in the May primary, stepped up her attacks on Martinez this week, sending...
By Hillel Aron | July 17, 2013
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Morning Read: Council District 6 Candidates Battle Over Teacher Abuse
Council District 6 Candidates Battle Over Teacher Abuse Issue Accusations of a cover-up involving a Pacoima teacher charged with molesting school children are roiling the District 6 race, prompting personal confessions and counterattacks. Candidate Nury Martinez, a former school board member, revealed this week she was molested as a 3-year-old by her Van Nuys neighbor....
By LA School Report | July 17, 2013
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CA Districts in DC for Final ‘No Child’ Waiver Pitch
Pressed for time, a small group of superintendents and officials from a coalition of nine California school districts, representing 1.1 million students, are on their way to D.C. to ensure that its No Child Left Behind waiver proposal is passed in time for the upcoming school year. Representatives from the California Office to Reform Education...
By Brianna Sacks | July 16, 2013
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Former Riverside Teacher Grades Republican Proposals
There’s a new Congressman who used to teach at Rialto High School named Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA), and he’s spending some of his time in Washington, DC marking up Dear Colleague letters with a red pen and sharing them with the public, according to a blog called HappyPlace: “Included in his comments are some words we haven’t...
By LA School Report | July 16, 2013
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Opinion: Teacher Layoffs Create Future Shortages
This is an oped describing how layoffs of teachers in recent years have created a paradoxical situation in which there will soon be teacher shortages, penned by UC Riverside interim Dean of Education Douglas E Mitchell in yesterday’s San Jose Mercury News: “The looming shortage is the result of massive teacher layoffs resulting from California’s budget...
By LA School Report | July 16, 2013
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Morning Read: Deadline Nearing for CA ‘No Child’ Waiver
CORE Districts to Make Final Personal Pitch for No Child Left Behind Waiver Quickly running out of time, a delegation from nine California school districts will go to Washington this week to make a last pitch to federal officials for a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law. Districts are up against deadlines for...
By LA School Report | July 16, 2013