LA School Report

Some members of the School Board have sent Superintendent John Deasy a letter asking him to clarify comments deriding a Board-passed spending resolution and indicating his plans to include a targeted funding resolution that was not passed by the Board. “They can’t stop me from doing it,” Deasy said in comments made to LA School Report earlier this...

Education Secretary Arne Duncan earlier this week announced that the federal US Department of Education would allow California and other states some additional time and flexibility during the implementation of the rigorous new Common Core standards and assessments, according to today’s EdSource. If California takes advantage of the offered flexibility, teachers and schools will get relief from...

Ryan Smith, director of education programs and policy at United Way of Greater Los Angeles, has been named one of Education Week‘s Ten People Who Are Changing Education Today — an annual list of under-35 reformers and innovators who might not yet be on your radar but should (or soon will) be. According to his LinkedIn, Smith...

The LAUSD School Board captured media attention from around the world on Tuesday when it unanimously awarded Apple a $30 million contract to purchase iPads for students and teachers in 47 schools. The Wall St. Journal, Mashable, and Newser all got in on the action. The British tabloid The Daily Mail found time for the story with the headline: “EVERY school child in...

Political news site Politico is reporting that US Senate hopeful Cory Booker has hired Obama campaign veteran Addisu Demissie (pictured) as his campaign manager. As you may recall, Demissie’s Sacramento-based firm 50+1 was hired to field work during the LAUSD school board election primaries, in which the Coalition outspent the union-endorsed candidates but only won one of three...

A couple of odds things happened towards the end of the School Board’s late-night meeting on Tuesday: Around 8:00 pm, as seven weary Board members were debating a proposal put forth by Board member Steve Zimmer calling on the district and state to bring greater transparency to the parent trigger signature-gathering process, Superintendent John Deasy...

KPCC’s Adolfo Guzman-Lopez has been sending out tweets about this morning’s conference on the district’s academic requirements. For example: @DrDeasyLAUSD taking part in conf. on 2016 requirement that HS seniors graduate #UC ready #AGForAll Top schools at #LAUSD falling short of 8 yr old A-G policy: 64% of grads at LA Center For Enriched Studies were UC ready in 2011 #LAUSD board...