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Is Monica Garcia Running For State Assembly?
The hot rumor going around that School Board member Monica Garcia is running State Assembly in 2014 gained a bit of credence when Garcia appeared as a “probable candidate” on the popular California politics website Around the Capitol. Scott Lay, who maintains Around the Capitol, said in an email that his information about Garcia was “based on...
By Hillel Aron | July 9, 2013
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Update: Rules Allow Board Members to Censure Colleagues
More than a week after they first surfaced in the LA Daily News, we still don’t know very much about the harassment and employee abuse allegations being investigated against Board member Richard Vladovic. According to LAUSD, Board members cannot “impeach” a colleague, but there is a 2003-approved code of conduct covering Board member behavior towards...
By Alexander Russo | July 9, 2013
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District Only Has Budget for 5,100 Summer Students
Many Los Angeles Unified students who need to make up a failed class, or just want to get ahead by taking summer school, are out of luck, according to a new report by the Daily News. For the second year in a row, the district is only able to scrape together $1 million for the...
By Brianna Sacks | July 9, 2013
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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