Public charter schools may be a divisive political issue for some teachers and unions but they’re still exceedingly popular with parents. As the Daily News points out, over 15,000 students are on the waiting list for charter schools in Los Angeles Unified. Some other numbers from the story: 100,000 – number of LAUSD students enrolled in charter schools...

Today’s blockbuster LA Daily News story about accusations of harassment against School Board member Dr. Richard Vladovic sent shockwaves through LAUSD’s massive headquarters on Beaudry. However, most of those contacted by LA School Report either didn’t know or weren’t willing to provide any details about the allegations or their possible impact on Vladovic’s chances of becoming the...

School Board member Steve Zimmer was sworn in for his second term in office last night at Hollywood High School. The event was emceed by former Board president and City Council member Jackie Goldberg and Sandra Figueroa-Villa, the executive director of El Centro Del Pueblo, a non-profit in Echo Park. She praised Zimmer’s election as...

Click below to view the proposed schedule of LAUSD Board meetings for the upcoming 2013-2014 school year which was put out earlier this week by LAUSD for an official vote at Tuesday’s Board meeting. According to the proposed schedule, the first meeting after the summer break is set for August 20. It is then scheduled, like...

On Tuesday, the School Board will convene for a sort of mini-meeting to swear in current members Monica Garcia, Steve Zimmer and the newly elected Monica Ratliff. It will also vote to elect a new Board President, a position held by Garcia for the last six years. The Board recently voted to limit the jobs...

Earlier today, veteran LAUSD teacher and Incubator School founder Sujata Bhatt posted some thoughts about the backlash against a set of new standards and tests called the Common Core:  There’s been a lot of hullaballoo suddenly about the Common Core. Symptomatic of the strange political times we live in, the Tea Party Right and the...

A couple of weeks ago we published a list of LA’s Top Education Tweeters — a semi-complete compendium of prolific and/or important people and organizations. We got a lot of responses and suggestions — keep them coming, we’ll do an update soon! — and then this week the kind folks at the College-Ready Promise (@CollegeRdyPrmse)...

Less than a week before she’s due to be sworn in as a new School Board member, Monica Ratliff held a fundraiser at Farfalla in Los Feliz to raise money in order to pay off her campaign debt. According to sources who attended the lunch, the roughly 20 to 25 people who were there comprised...