LA School Report

Inspired by innovations in sports statistics, the New York Times‘ statistics guru Nate Silver, and all the Gates Foundation talk about the value of school climate surveys, a group of Yale seniors led by North Hollywood High School alumn Aaron Feuer (son of Mike) has developed a relatively cheap, cloud-based software platform called Panorama that can help schools conduct...

You might be surprised to learn that Los Angeles isn’t one of the top five districts when it comes to the percentage of kids who attend charter schools. The top five according to a new report from the National Association of Public Charter Schools are New Orleans, Detroit, Washington D.C., Kansas City (Missouri), Flint, Gary, and St. Louis. But...

Los Angeles Tops Nation in Charter School Enrollment More students from Los Angeles Unified attend charter schools than from any other district in America – by far. Nearly one out of seven LAUSD students now attend charters. Ed Source Deasy’s $17.5M Request for Computer Tablet Funds Nixed The panel that oversees spending of Los Angeles...

Today, members from the Bond Oversight Committee blocked Phase I of Superintendent John Deasy’s plan to provide tablet computers for all students and faculty by the end of 2013. The first phase of Deasy’s plan called for spending $17.4 million on tablets for 14 secondary schools. The Bond Oversight Committee voted 7-3 to approve the...

Board Members Tamar Galatzan, Monica Garcia, Nury Martinez, and Richard Vladovic voted “no”; Bennett Kayser and Steve Zimmer voted “yes.” Marguerite LaMotte left the room, so her vote was counted as “absent.”

Nobody seems to know just how deeply involved in fundraising for Board candidates or other measures to preserve his education legacy Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is going to be during the upcoming months. So it’s interesting to see his byline on a recent oped touting the importance of education in general and in particular the controversial “parent trigger”...

NBC News: Budget cuts can’t stop music at LA school

LAUSD Restores Full Academic Year and Full Pay The actions were made possible by passage of Proposition 30. Members also approve a resolution to charge fees when charters claim more space on traditional campuses than they need. LA Times See also  ABC 7, KTLA, CBS, Daily News, KPCC, & LA School Report LAUSD Rejects Voluntary Moratorium on...

Inside the meeting room at Tuesday’s LAUSD school board meeting, four television camera crews were present to watch the board vote unanimously to rescind 10 furlough days (five of which are instructional), thanks to the passage of Proposition 30. The board also voted to adopt a “Good Food Purchasing Policy.” But the healthy food vote and...

They don’t usually get much attention but here and there in LA and elsewhere, parents and teachers frustrated with the existing options are creating their own new, different kind of charter schools that try to balance learning with accountability and mix kids from a wide variety of backgrounds. (In Los Angeles, Citizens of the World...