LA School Report

Governor Jerry Brown has a bill on his desk, AB 1266, that would allow transgender students in public schools to take physical education classes with boys or girls — and, most controversially, use the bathroom of whatever gender they identify as. According to KPCC‘s Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, “L.A. Unified and San Francisco schools have had similar...

Judge Refuses to Throw Out Lawsuits Against LAUSD in Miramonte Sex Abuse Scandal Attorneys for LAUSD asked the judge to dismiss the lawsuits, but the judge sided with a group of attorneys representing 61 children and 73 parents and accused the district of concealing information about former Miramonte Elementary School third-grade teacher Mark Berndt. CBS...

The hot rumor going around that School Board member Monica Garcia is running State Assembly in 2014 gained a bit of credence when Garcia appeared as a “probable candidate” on the popular California politics website Around the Capitol. Scott Lay, who maintains Around the Capitol, said in an email that his information about Garcia was “based on...

LAUSD Summer School a ‘Sorry’ Experience with Limited Offerings All 5,100 seats were reserved for students needing to make up a failed class, with priority given to ninth-graders who’d gotten an F in algebra and incoming seniors who had flunked a course that was required to graduate. LA Daily News  Redlands Superintendent Denies Cover-Up of...

The Los Angeles Unified School Board recently passed a motion to return the district to the pre-recession school staffing ratios and class size ratios of 2007-2008. UTLA President Warren Fletcher praised the resolution, arguing that Board member Bennett Kayser’s proposal would remedy the “current degraded levels of funding, staffing and the ballooning class sizes.” However, some education experts and...

Here’s LA School Report contributor Hillel Aron on the KCRW radio show “Which Way, LA?” from last week, talking about the Richard Vladovic LAUSD Presidency, Mayor Garcetti’s involvement in the process, among other things: Have any trouble getting the media player to work, you can listen to it here. There’s a second segment focused on...