LA School Report

LAUSD Cracks Down on Teacher Misconduct; 100 Fired, 200 Resign, 300 ‘Housed’ Under the zero-tolerance policy that Deasy enacted after the Miramonte Elementary sex-abuse scandal erupted in February 2012, the school board has voted to dismiss more than 100 teachers for misconduct, and accepted the resignations of at least 200 others who were about to...

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, here’s David Letterman doing “Top Ten Reasons to Become a Teacher” with the help of 10 TFA newbies and Van Halen’s “Hot For Teacher.” (Or, if you prefer: an angry student’s viral tirade against his teacher’s over-reliance on worksheets and packets.)  

Take a look at Tuesday’s official LAUSD School Board “Order of Business” and see if anything jumps out at you as new, notable, or particularly surprising: Report back to us here in comments or at @laschoolreport.

At an event promoted by United Way of Greater Los Angeles held in front of LAUSD headquarters, parents and educators called on UTLA and LAUSD to “put politics aside and continue the successful program, which provides a nutritious breakfast at nearly 300 schools.”  Earlier this week, Take Part explored the controversy surrounding the program. Previous...

As Education Week reported last Friday, the nine California school districts collectively known as CORE (California Office to Reform Education) are busy revising their application for a No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver. The initial draft of the waiver application sent in by LAUSD and other districts was given to an anonymous peer review group established by the Federal government....

Tuesday, May 14, is the next scheduled LAUSD School Board meeting, and it may be a noisy one. United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) is planning a major show of force at the meeting and afterwards, calling for reductions in class size (and rehiring of laid-off teachers) . According to the UTLA website, the School...