LA School Report

Two education outlets — Hechinger Report (affiliated with Columbia University) and Education Week — have recently published stories out about the LAUSD School Board races focused on the large amount of money that’s been raised by the Coalition for School Reform. Mainstream  outlets — the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post — are almost sure to follow. If they do, however, they...

So you’ve already read our writeup of last night’s East San Fernando Valley forum but you want to know more.  Well now you can watch video of candidates Antonio Sanchez, Maria Cano, and Monica Ratliff in action last night: Skip to the topic you find most interesting:  9:55: Teacher evaluations; 16:20:Charter school moratorium ; 24:12: Parent inclusion; 31:22: Involving charters in...

In addition to the high-pressure appearance of the candidates for Mayor of Los Angeles, the United Way summit at the LA Convention Center yesterday also included a morning discussion featuring LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy, School Board President Monica Garcia, and school reform funders Casey Wasserman and Eli Broad, Not surprisingly, the like-minded panelists generated little...

It was a packed house at Vaughn Next Century Learning Center Wednesday night  for a forum with the three District 6 candidates —  Maria Cano, Monica Ratliff and Antonio Sanchez — sponsored by Families First and moderated by  Fidel Ramirez, a parent and after-school coordinator for the Youth Policy Institute. The crowd of more than 250, mostly parents, sat quietly during...

L.A. School Board Race Tops Spending Records The city’s ethics commission, which tracks campaign finances, reported this week that independent expenditures in the three board races represent a 977 percent increase over the primary four years ago, the last time these three seats were up for grabs. EdWeek See also: LA School Report Mayoral Rivals Talk...

It was perhaps no surprise that District 4 School Board member Steve Zimmer was visibly upset when he happened to run into Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Deputy Mayor for Education, Joan Sullivan, at today’s United Way education event. “RFK, Joan? Really?” said Zimmer as the two rode the escalator together. “That’s just wrong.” “I don’t know what...

Prior to today’s United Way mayoral candidate’s forum, we had been told to expect Wendy Greuel to “come out” as an “education reformer.” But instead it was Eric Garcetti who took the opportunity to align himself with the so-called reform movement, voicing unequivocal support for LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy, the parent trigger law, and even...

The teachers union political action committee has allocated the majority of its expenditures in the East LA District 2 School Board election — almost $90,000 — to attack incumbent LAUSD Board President Monica Garcia and bolster the chances of forcing a runoff between Garcia and one of her three union-endorsed candidates. But are the attacks accurate...

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Anyone (like me) who thought that American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten was going to follow up on her recent trip to LA with a big, fat Lotto-sized check for District 4 candidate Steve Zimmer and UTLA-PACE is going to be sorely disappointed. Word is out that the AFT has sent a $75,000 check to...