Per yesterday’s post about Congressional deliberations over alt cert teachers, LAUSD says that there are 24,466 fully credentialed classroom teachers [I’m assuming these are folks who came through an alternative route but are now done with their credits and fully certified], plus 199 NCLB-compliant interns [I’m guessing all or most of these are TFA corps members...

Speaking of court cases (see below), the House education committee held a hearing about alternative certification yesterday in Washington, trying to figure out what to do about the quickly-expiring NCLB exemption for alternative route candidates in LAUSD and nationally.  All indications are that Congress is going to extend the alt cert program, but if it...

Michelle Rhee’s organization, Students First, a Sacramento-based ed reform group, has produced a very bizarre TV ad, that Rhee showed on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday:

A Superior Court Judge has ruled in favor of parents of Desert Trails Elementary, who now become the first parents in the country to successfully take over a public school under provisions of the new and controversial Parent Trigger law. “People throw around the word historic a lot,” said Ben Austin, Executive Director of Parent...

LAUSD to fight judge’s ruling in charter case, and more. LAUSD is fighting a court order to give more space to charter schools. The district says enforcement would lead to school busing. LA Times, KPCC RiShawn Biddle argues that the NAACP should get on board with public school choice All sorts of media outlets are...

From KPCC: When allocating space to charter schools, the law requires the district to look at all space at a school site, look at the total number of students served at that site, and make an equitable offer to charter schools based on the same allocation, said Ricardo Soto, the general counsel for the Charter...

It’s not such a bad thing that LAUSD is trying to prevent future cases of child molestation at school, but this blindfold ban seems like a particularly literal-minded, narrow approach to the problem — especially when there are so many other things that need doing.  Schools are always banning things (dirty dancing, wrist bands, gang colors, hugging...