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LA Unified Principals Review the iPad Rollout: Not so Bad
What’s the reaction to the Phase 1 rollout of LA Unified’s iPad program? By one very unscientific measure, not so bad. At the request of Monica Ratliff, who chairs the board’s Common Core Technology Committee, the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles, the group representing school principals and assistant principals, surveyed schools among the first 47...
By LA School Report | November 1, 2013
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Commentary: First, We Have to Stop the Overcrowding
In Dennis Danziger’s English class at Venice High, they play musical chairs every day; if you come in late, you don’t get a desk and have to sit in a chair on the sidelines. Unfortunately, they’re not playing for fun. They’re playing because his class of 50 students is so overcrowded the students can barely...
By Ellie Herman | November 1, 2013
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Get Me Rewrite: Deasy Story Evolves in L.A. Times
Via Education Week | By Mark Walsh It’s been five days of ferment in Los Angeles over the future of John Deasy, the superintendent of the L.A. Unified School District. It began, at least publicly, with a story on the Web site of the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 24, headlined “L.A. schools Supt. John...
By LA School Report | October 31, 2013
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LAUSD Sees Dramatic Decrease in Truancy Rate, So Far
Truancy ticketing in LA Unified dropped by nearly 80 percent between 2010 and 2012, and citations across all categories are down by half for the same period. So far this year, district officials report LA school police have issued 77 citations. In contrast, school police were issuing an average of 110 tickets a month in...
By Vanessa Romo | October 31, 2013
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UTLA President Fletcher Doubles Down: Deasy Not a ‘Savior’*
Despite all the sky-is-falling-rhetoric over the past week, things at LA Unified are much as they were: John Deasy is still the man in charge as superintendent, and teachers union president Warren Fletcher continues as his chief adversary. While Deasy was keeping out of the spotlight today — he was attending an event in Albuquerque...
By Vanessa Romo | October 30, 2013
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Villaraigosa Helped Broker Deal to Keep Deasy Superintendent
LA School Report has learned the deal to extend the contract of LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy might not have been possible without the involvement of former LA mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa. According to three people with knowledge of events, none of whom would speak for attribution, Villaraigosa made a flurry of calls to both Deasy and...
By Jamie Alter Lynton | October 30, 2013
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STEM Symposium Focusing on Encouraging More Girls
With implementation of the Common Core standards and Next Generation Science Standards in full swing, a symposium in Sacramento next month will bring together teachers, administrators, students and industry professionals to discuss betters ways to develop robust science, technology, and mathematics programs in local schools. The inaugural California STEM Symposium is sponsored by the Californians Dedicated to...
By Chase Niesner | October 30, 2013
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Top 5 Lessons From the Deasy Comeback Story
Now that the LA Unified school district leadership is back to work after a day of maybe-this and what about-that, here are a few takeaways from yesterday’s drama leading to the school board surprise renewal of Superintendent John Deasy’s contract (live links send you to the full stories): 1. Grassroots support may actually matter if...
By LA School Report | October 30, 2013
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Deasy Staying; Board Extends Contract through June 2016*
John Deasy‘s tenure as superintendent of LA Unified School District is continuing as the school board today gave him a “satisfactory” performance evaluation and extended his contract to June, 30, 2016. The announcement, after nearly five hours of a closed door meeting at the district’s downtown headquarters, ended five frenetic days of uncertainty that began with...
By Vanessa Romo | October 29, 2013
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Breaking News: Deasy Contract Renewed Through June 2016
The LA Unified School District’s board has extended John Deasy’s contract as superintendent through June 30, 2016. The annoucement ends all speculation and reports that he is resigning. More to come
By Vanessa Romo | October 29, 2013