The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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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
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LA’s Most Famous Teacher Critiques Common Core
Rafe Esquith may or may not be LAUSD’s best classroom teacher, but he’s certainly one of the most well-known — at least outside of LA. His familiarity comes largely thanks to his own writing (including a new book coming out this year) and others like Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews writing about him as...
By Alexander Russo | July 15, 2013
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Morning Read: CA Refuses to Grade Teachers
California Holds Out Against Obama’s Education Vision California has defiantly refused to follow the administration’s lead in grading the performance of teachers and using those measurements to reward the best teachers and punish the worst. The state is one of very few that have told Washington that under no conditions will it put in place...
By LA School Report | July 15, 2013
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Commentary: Deasy-Style Reform Stresses Kids, Educators
This is a guest commentary from veteran Oklahoma City high school teacher John Thompson, who writes about school reform issues at the Huffington Post, This Week In Education, and other outlets: NPR’s Rachel Martin, in Superintendent’s Effort To Do Right By His Kids, nailed the essence of LA Superintendent John Deasy’s zealotry, as well as the hubris...
By Guest contributor | July 12, 2013
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Listen: Deasy on “Adult Stress” vs. What Kids Need
If you haven’t listened to it already, check out this NPR interview with LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy from last week — taped at the Aspen Ideas Festival just before the LAUSD School Board meeting. [Or, you can read the transcript here.]: In the interview, Deasy addresses criticism of his work and acknowledges the many stress his...
By LA School Report | July 12, 2013
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Update: Federal Review “Going In the Right Direction” for LAUSD
It’s still a waiting game for LA Unified and eight other California school districts who have yet to hear if their revised No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver application will be given the thumbs up by the US Department of Education in Washington. The nine districts, known as California Office to Reform Education (CORE), are...
By Brianna Sacks | July 12, 2013