The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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Morning Read: Parent Trigger Debate at Today’s Board Meeting
LAUSD May Seek Change to Parent Trigger Law Of the five times the law has been engaged in California, three were in the LAUSD, leading at least one board member to suggest tweaks to the way parent triggers work. California Report See also: LA School Report, KPCC, LA Times Tough Choices at LAUSD Union allies...
By LA School Report | June 18, 2013
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Parent Trigger Group Creates “Truth” Site
Earlier today, LA-based nonprofit Parent Revolution announced that it was launching a new site, Truth in Education Reform, with the stated aim of “ferreting out and debunking the conspiracy theories and provable lies… that collectively threaten to overcome sensible debate on education policy and ed reform.” The site’s initial focus will be on attempting to debunk...
By LA School Report | June 17, 2013
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Social Media: Top Education Tweeters
Here’s our massive (but still probably incomplete) listing of top education-related Twitter users in LA — including official and unofficial representatives from the district, the union, Board members, teacher activists, mainstream media, and bloggers. See yourself listed? Be sure to tweet about it. Not on the list, or know someone who should be? Tweet about...
By LA School Report | June 17, 2013
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Update: Controversy Awaits $30 Million iPad Vote
The School Board will face a mini controversy tomorrow when it votes on whether or not to to purchase roughly 31,000 Apple iPad tablets at a cost to LAUSD of $30 million. The appropriation would be the first step in Superintendent John Deasy’s ambitious plan of equipping every student and teacher with a touch-screen tablet...
By Hillel Aron | June 17, 2013
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Board Member-Elect Clarifies Teacher Pay Position
More than a few eyebrows were raised when School Board member-elect Monica Ratliff appeared at a Thursday Educators for Excellence (E4E) event and seemed to signal support for some kind of a test-based pay system to attract and keep good teachers in LA classrooms. See LA School Report (Ratliff Supports Proposal Linking Teacher Pay to Test Scores)...
By Hillel Aron | June 17, 2013
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Morning Read: LA Unified Debates New Funding
Facing its First Budget Increase in Years, LA Unified Board Members Set to Debate How to Spend it Los Angeles Unified School District’s board of education is set to vote Tuesday on next fiscal year’s budget. For the first time in years, members will not be faced with figuring out where to make drastic cuts....
By LA School Report | June 17, 2013
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Mentions: Add UCLA News Roundup to Your List
The Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA) at UCLA put outs a daily Education News Roundup that’s a good source of information about education in LA and statewide. So it’s great when the newsletter includes stories from LA School Report like it did on Thursday (with Hillel Aron’s story about who might be the next President...
By Alexander Russo | June 14, 2013
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Teacher Evaluations Still a Work in Progress
Teacher evaluations for the 2012-13 school year were due about a month ago. Even though they included a section for “student achievement,” it’s safe to say that particular section was a work in progress. “There was literally just a few weeks to get it implemented, and we had to implement it according to the courts,”...
By Hillel Aron | June 14, 2013
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Board Preview: Budget, Parent Trigger, iPads
The headline act for Tuesday’s Board meeting — the last substantive meeting of seven-member LAUSD oversight body until late August — will be the debate and voting on Superintendent John Deasy’s proposed budget. Next week’s agenda also includes a number of controversial items such as the proposed purchase of electronic tablets for Phase I of LAUSD’s technology...
By Hillel Aron | June 14, 2013
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Mayor-Elect Responds to Online Education Question
Last night, Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti went online for an hour-long “AMA” on Reddit. Reddit is popular website and its “Ask Me Anything” sessions have become popular for politicians, entrepreneurs, and celebrities. Garcetti had already done one AMA as a mayoral candidate. Last night — wedged in between a plethora of questions about public transportation and...
By Hillel Aron | June 14, 2013