The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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Polling: Voters Dislike LAUSD, Like Local Schools
There isn’t any public polling about next week’s District 6 School Board race but there are some interesting citywide poll results that tell us a little bit about how differently LA voters see LAUSD in general and their own schools in particular. According to Raphael Sonenshein in the Jewish Journal, voters generally hold LAUSD in...
By Alexander Russo | May 15, 2013
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Board Candidate Ratliff Attends UTLA Rally*
District 6 (East Valley) candidate Monica Ratliff was spotted outside at the UTLA rally to hire more teachers/reduce class size. Via KPCC. [*Contrary to the original version of this post, the rally took place after school and so Ratliff didn’t have to take any time off.] Previous posts: Board Candidates Differ on Teacher Retention, School Turnaround;...
By Alexander Russo | May 15, 2013
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Kayser to DWP: Give Schools a Discount
Here’s an interesting idea from School Board Member Bennett Kayser’s LA Times op-ed this morning: make the Department of Water and Power (DWP) give LAUSD a discount. “In San Francisco, public schools get deeply discounted electricity from the local utility under an agreement forged decades ago,” he writes. The DWP, one of the most powerful institutions in...
By Hillel Aron | May 15, 2013
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Deasy & Allies Prevail at May Board Meeting
Tuesday’s marathon School Board meeting included an ambitiously long agenda, simmering tensions among Board members, and no less than three different rallies going on outside the LAUSD headquarters on Beaudry Avenue throughout the day. Though the exchanges never quite rose to the level of outright acrimony, there were some dramatic moments as the Board members...
By Hillel Aron | May 15, 2013
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Morning Read: Breakfasts, Budgets, & Discipline
LAUSD Becomes First District to Ban ‘Willful Defiance’ Suspensions The action comes amid mounting national concern that removing students from school is imperiling their academic achievement and disproportionately harming minority students, particularly African-Americans. LA Times LAUSD Board Saves Breakfast in the Classroom Despite facing criticism from teachers, Los Angeles Unified’s Breakfast in the Classroom was...
By LA School Report | May 15, 2013
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Live Coverage of Today’s Board Meeting
Want to know what’s happening at today’s LAUSD Board meeting as it happens? We’re live-tweeting the event: [widgets_on_pages id=”Twitter Live Posts”]
By LA School Report | May 14, 2013
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Watch: Board Meeting Gets Morning TV News Treatment
You know it’s a big Board meeting when morning TV news reporters head over to Beaudry early in the morning to file a report like the one above. (Also, the school district sent out a special “media advisory” email yesterday warning TV reporters to get there by 11 am because of the large turnout that’s...
By Hillel Aron | May 14, 2013
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Parent Group Petitions for Superintendent Deasy
“Nothing makes me happier than seeing parents mobilize to support the changes underway in LAUSD,” writes former School Board candidate Kate Anderson in a recent email. “Just such a mobilization is underway and you can take part.” Anderson’s talking about the Support Our Superintendent petition that’s been circulating the past few days. Signed by more...
By LA School Report | May 14, 2013
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Morning Read: Add Mayoral Candidate to Today’s Big Board Meeting
LAUSD Agenda Today Topped By Breakfast Program, Suspension Policy Demonstrators began gathering early Tuesday outside Los Angeles Unified headquarters, where the school board was expected to decide the fate of the Breakfast in the Classroom program, whether to ban student suspensions for “willful defiance” and funding for key programs.” The agenda for the noontime meeting covers...
By LA School Report | May 14, 2013
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Board Preview: Multiple Protests, Packed Agenda
Just as record-breaking temperatures in Los Angeles are expected to subside by tomorrow, many of the heated LAUSD issues on the docket for tomorrow’s Board meeting may cool off into mere formalities by the time they come up for a vote. But a packed Board agenda and multiple union rallies could still make for a dramatic day...
By Hillel Aron | May 13, 2013