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Special Board Meeting Not So Special After All
There was an air of excitement surrounding today’s special Board meeting to discuss LAUSD’s budget, resulting in no less than four television crews in addition to KNX radio and three (count ’em!) education reporters live-tweeting the proceedings. The cause of all the excitement? The expected clash between Board members who want LAUSD to rehire teachers...
By Hillel Aron | June 4, 2013
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L.A. Unified Tests New Ways to Evaluate Teachers
Nowhere else in California has the debate over the use of student test scores to grade teachers gained more attention than in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), according to a new story from the Hechinger Report that focuses on voluntary pilot evaluation efforts at Melrose Elementary School and other sites around the district. This year,...
By Brianna Sacks | June 4, 2013
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Parent Revolution Reaches Out to UTLA Teachers
On Sunday afternoon, around 25 classroom teachers who have been elected to represent their schools met at UTLA headquarters to discuss the contentious parent trigger petition process that’s unfolded at Weigand Elementary — and the possibility of additional trigger petitions in the future. Parent Revolution, the non-profit that has led the organizing efforts on all...
By Hillel Aron | June 4, 2013
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Deasy Wants Stronger Teacher Dismissal Bill
A teacher dismissal bill aimed at ensuring the teachers accused of sexual misconduct can be removed from the classroom in a timely manner took another step towards becoming state law last week. As reported by the Sacramento Bee, the legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan (D-Alamo) and championed by the state teachers unions “would make it...
By Alexander Russo | June 4, 2013
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Garcetti’s Education Staffing Plans Unclear
On Friday, Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti named longtime advisor Rich Llewellyn to oversee his transition team. According to the LA Times, he’ll help “identify hundreds of people who will work in his office and serve as political appointees.” The big question in education circles is whether Garcetti will have an education team like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa before him,...
By Hillel Aron | June 4, 2013
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Live: School Budget Board Meeting
Want to know what’s happening at today’s LAUSD Board meeting as it happens? We’re live-tweeting the event: [widgets_on_pages id=”Twitter Live Posts”]
By LA School Report | June 4, 2013
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Deasy: Raises & Deficit Reduction Before New Hires
In a memo sent out to district senior leadership and posted on the LAUSD website, Superintendent John Deasy laid out his vision for the next three years. Looking it over, it doesn’t take long to realize that Deasy’s priorities aren’t in line with those of some of his Board members. A resolution by Board members...
By Hillel Aron | June 3, 2013
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Parent Trigger: Times Debates Transparency, Urgency
There are two interesting opinion pieces on the parent trigger in the LA Times — both focused on the aftermath of the parent trigger petition at Weigand Elementary but coming at the issue from different points of view: One of the two highlights the laudable desire to make sure that teachers and parents are fully...
By Alexander Russo | June 3, 2013
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Conflicting Options at Tomorrow’s Board Meeting
The Daily News‘ Barbara Jones casts the two resolutions scheduled to be introduced at tomorrow’s special budget-focused Board meeting as two “conflicting options” for how to spend future revenue from Proposition 30, the temporary tax hike passed by California voters in November. One resolution, sponsored by Board members Steve Zimmer, Bennett Kayser and Dr. Richard...
By Hillel Aron | June 3, 2013
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Board Member-Elect Highlights Vocational Training
In a new KNX 1070 NEWSRADIOinterview, Board member-elect Monica Ratliff expresses some of her own ideas about what should get funded and expanded in LAUSD in upcoming years, including vocational education: “One of the areas to which Ratliff plans to bring renewed focus is vocational education, which involves training students for technical occupations and preparing them...
By Alexander Russo | June 3, 2013