The mud has dried, the rain clouds are gone, and LAUSD special needs students will finally have the chance to showcase their six weeks of training at the LAUSD Fall Soccer Games, which have been rescheduled for Thursday and Friday. The School Games, which were postponed two weeks ago due to weather concerns, are the...

A 26-year old candidate with more experience in policy than politics is heading into tomorrow’s special election for a westside state Assembly seat with something few candidates can claim: support from both sides of the education reform debate. Sebastian Ridley-Thomas, son of County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, has proved to be both a prolific fundraiser and...

Via The New York Times | Editorial Board Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio will take office facing the need to forge new labor agreements with the unions that represent nearly all of New York City’s 300,000 municipal workers. The largest of these, the United Federation of Teachers, is in a particularly sour mood. Representing 40 percent...

The LA Times has another iPad story today, pointing to surveys by the administrators and teachers unions that found the entirely-not-surprising results that some people like the iPads, some people don’t. What is surprising is what the story doesn’t say, such as when the surveys were conducted. LA School Report published reports on the administrators survey...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquPmplrofk&noredirect=1 While some education researchers may question the validity of the nation’s “STEM crisis,” it remains clear that California students continue to struggle in mathematics when compared with their peers across the nation. According to the recently released Report Card from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), California fourth and eighth graders ranked 47th...