Mayoral candidates Greuel and Garcetti may support publishing teachers’ performance ratings — and indeed the LA Times did just that a few years ago.  But, according to this new Education Week chart, California is one of 22 states that currently exempt individual teachers’ ratings from open records laws. Via Twitter, EdWeek reporter Stephen Sawchuk says it’s California code...

With less than two weeks to go until election day, the District 6 School Board runoff is remarkably sedate. Very little mail has been sent out for either campaigns, and Independent Expenditure (or IE) committee spending is down compared to the primary. Monica Ratliff still teaches every day at San Pedro Elementary, so her public exposure...

You can listen to a rebroadcast of yesterday’s Mayoral education debate while you read coverage of the event here and here.

Tuesday afternoon’s KCRW Mayoral debate — about half of which focused on public education — began with a bold assertion by candidate Wendy Greuel: “There’s probably no other subject where my opponent and I differ than on education.” But in a debate that covered topics such as the publication of teacher ratings in the LA Times, the...

We’ll be livetweeting today’s Greuel-Garcetti education debate: [widgets_on_pages id=”Twitter Live Posts”] Tweet us @laschoolreport

The American Federation of Teachers and its California chapter, CFT, have just given a combined $60,000 to a super PAC named  Lots of People Who Support Eric Garcetti for Mayor. Although UTLA, the local teachers union, endorsed Garcetti back in February, this is the first time a teachers union has spent any money on the 2013...

Here’s a Fox News segment on the mayoral candidates’ Monday morning appearance before 24th Street Elementary School parents.

Tomorrow at 2:00 is the scheduled date and time for the much-discussed education debate between Mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel, which is being hosted by KCRW at the Petersen Automotive Museum. The two candidates have mirrored each other on education issues in recent conversations, and earlier today both visited the parents behind the 24th Street...

The runoff election that will decide Los Angeles’ new mayor, the LAUSD Board member for District 6 (East San Fernando Valley), and several other city offices is now less than a month away. Today, May 6 is the last day you can register to vote for the May 21 runoff. If you still haven’t registered, go...

This is a guest commentary from LAUSD District 6 teachers Pearl Arredondo and Hector (@educatorla) Perez-Roman, following up on a recent TeachPlus meeting with candidate Monica Ratliff: With so much at stake for the LAUSD Board District 6 runoff election, it was surprising that only one candidate, Monica Ratliff, attended the only scheduled public candidates’ forum...