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Mixed Reactions to Board-Passed Hiring Proposal
The Los Angeles Unified School Board recently passed a motion to return the district to the pre-recession school staffing ratios and class size ratios of 2007-2008. UTLA President Warren Fletcher praised the resolution, arguing that Board member Bennett Kayser’s proposal would remedy the “current degraded levels of funding, staffing and the ballooning class sizes.” However, some education experts and...
By Brianna Sacks | July 8, 2013
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Listen: Hillel Aron’s July 3 KCRW Appearance*
Here’s LA School Report contributor Hillel Aron on the KCRW radio show “Which Way, LA?” from last week, talking about the Richard Vladovic LAUSD Presidency, Mayor Garcetti’s involvement in the process, among other things: Have any trouble getting the media player to work, you can listen to it here. There’s a second segment focused on...
By LA School Report | July 8, 2013
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Ratliff Explains Request for Speeches, Vladovic Vote
Newly elected School Board member Monica Ratliff made a big splash on her first (public) day on the job when she stopped the Board President proceedings and moved that the two candidates — Tamar Galatzan and Richard Vladovic — say what they would do if they got the job, and then again asked whom they...
By Hillel Aron | July 8, 2013
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Update: Fourth of July Weekend Break
Have a great Fourth of July Weekend. We’re off July 4th and 5th but will be back on Monday the 8th.
By LA School Report | July 4, 2013
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Fact-Checking Villaraigosa’s Schools Record
The best part of the LA Times’ recent exit interview with former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is that education reporters Howard Blume and Teresa Watanabe also published an annotated version of the full transcript — at Villaraigosa’s request. And the best parts of the transcript are Blume and Watanabe’s footnotes — see examples above — which betray no small amount of...
By Hillel Aron | July 3, 2013
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Update: Seven States Have “Parent Trigger” Laws
While California was the first state in the nation to adopt the parent trigger law back in 2010, the state is no longer alone. Since then, an additional six states — Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas — have passed trigger legislation into law, according to a recent overview in Stateline. Parent trigger laws generally allow...
By Brianna Sacks | July 3, 2013
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Analysis: How Vladovic Won (& Zimmer Went Un-Nominated)
While high-profile School Board votes are often said to be “baked” ahead of time — negotiated and known by the key participants well before the public vote — it’s not at all clear that was the case yesterday at the LAUSD School Board meeting, where the result was a 5-2 vote for Richard Vladovic as...
By Alexander Russo | July 3, 2013
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Roundup: Mild Reactions to Vladovic Victory
Reactions from Los Angeles education groups and leaders to yesterday’s news that Board member Richard Vladovic will be LAUSD’s new School Board President were generally positive, albeit mild: In a press release, SEIU Local 99 Executive Director Courtni Pugh wrote that Vladovic “has demonstrated a true respect for the role that school nutrition, transportation, campus safety, and...
By Brianna Sacks | July 3, 2013
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Look: Scenes From a Board Meeting
The Daily News has a very nice slideshow of yesterday’s eventful Board Meeting, which saw Board members Monica Garcia, Steve Zimmer and Monica Ratliff all get sworn in, and Dr. Richard Vladovic get elected Board President. A sampling: There’s also a nice picture in the LA Times of Ratliff and her mother embracing during the swearing-in process....
By Hillel Aron | July 3, 2013
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Vladovic Defeats Galatzan for Board President
In one of the more dramatic meetings in recent memory, the newly installed 2013-2014 LAUSD School Board selected Dr. Richard Vladovic (standing, left) as its next President by a vote of 5 to 2. Newly sworn-in Board member Monica Ratliff joined Steve Zimmer, Marguerite LaMotte, Bennett Kayser and Vladovic himself in the majority. Outgoing Board...
By Hillel Aron | July 2, 2013