Here’s an interesting idea from School Board Member Bennett Kayser’s LA Times op-ed this morning: make the Department of Water and Power (DWP) give LAUSD a discount. “In San Francisco, public schools get deeply discounted electricity from the local utility under an agreement forged decades ago,” he writes. The DWP, one of the most powerful institutions in...

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Just as record-breaking temperatures in Los Angeles are expected to subside by tomorrow, many of the heated LAUSD issues on the docket for tomorrow’s Board meeting may cool off into mere formalities by the time they come up for a vote. But a packed Board agenda and multiple union rallies could still make for a dramatic day...

According to a press release distributed by the teacher advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence, District 6 School Board candidates Monica Ratliff and Antonio Sanchez agreed on several things  during recent interviews (such as Superintendent Deasy’s leadership of the district and charter schools) but disagreed on others (including teacher retention and school improvement strategies). Hear the...

The above graphic is from Barbara Jones’ excellent Daily News piece on Superintendent John Deasy’s push to dismiss more teachers. The article also includes a sidebar briefly summarizing 83 cases against teachers accused of misconduct in the last 15 months — accusations ranging from “showing students images of naked children” to “paying students to do his work, such as...

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, here’s David Letterman doing “Top Ten Reasons to Become a Teacher” with the help of 10 TFA newbies and Van Halen’s “Hot For Teacher.” (Or, if you prefer: an angry student’s viral tirade against his teacher’s over-reliance on worksheets and packets.)