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STEM Symposium Focusing on Encouraging More Girls
With implementation of the Common Core standards and Next Generation Science Standards in full swing, a symposium in Sacramento next month will bring together teachers, administrators, students and industry professionals to discuss betters ways to develop robust science, technology, and mathematics programs in local schools. The inaugural California STEM Symposium is sponsored by the Californians Dedicated to...
By Chase Niesner | October 30, 2013
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Deasy Leaving LA Unified? Who Could be Surprised
News Analysis If John Deasy is resigning of his own accord or he is soon to be fired, his potential departure as superintendent of the LA Unified School District further undermines leadership of the city’s public education community at a time of massive change and uncertainty. Whether a victim of policies judged too aggressive by...
By Michael Janofsky | October 25, 2013
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Deadline Nearing for Segregating LA Unified’s English Learners
Over the past week Cynthia Van Houten, principal at Granada Elementary Charter Community, has been scrambling to get students in the right classrooms. Tomorrow is the deadline for principals and teachers throughout LA Unified to comply with a district policy that mandates all English learners be grouped by fluency, above all other criteria. Van Houten...
By Vanessa Romo | October 24, 2013
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Union President Says Strike Could Help Win Teacher Pay Raises
Could a teacher strike be on the horizon? In ratcheting up pressure on LA Unified to negotiate for salary increases for its members, UTLA President Warren Fletcher is raising the specter of a strike as a way to force the issue. He writes in the latest issue of the union’s monthly, United Teacher, “In any...
By LA School Report | October 24, 2013
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CLASS Calls Meeting with Vladovic ‘Productive’
A coalition of community groups known by the acronym, CLASS, finally had a meeting today with LA Unified Board President Richard Vladovic. The groups’ mission was to press the case for individual schools, rather than district administrators, deciding how to spend money coming into LA Unified from Gov. Jerry Brown‘s new Local Control Funding Formula,...
By LA School Report | October 18, 2013
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UTLA Seeking to Take Lead on Changing CA’s Parent Trigger*
The governing body of the LA teachers union last night voted to seek out a state lawmaker to sponsor legislation that rewrites California’s parent trigger law, which allows for wholesale changes at a school if a majority of parents want them. The state law, passed in 2010, was used for the first time this year...
By LA School Report | October 17, 2013
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$7 Billion for Repairs, But LA Unified to Start With Much Less
It has been almost five years since local voters approved Measure Q, authorizing LA Unified to sell $7 billion in bonds for school repairs and upgrades. Any idea how much has been raised? Zero. Any idea how much of the $7 billion will be available when bonds are sold and spending starts next year? “A...
By LA School Report | October 10, 2013
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iPads Hacked? ‘Surprised it Took This Long,’ Says Zimmer
At least one LA Unified school board member was hardly shocked to learn that students piloting the district’s iPad program had found a way to break through the firewall. “Of course it happened,” Steve Zimmer told LA School Report, throwing his hands up in the air as he left an event at Hollywood High School. “Frankly,...
By Vanessa Romo | September 25, 2013
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Roosevelt High Students Find a Way to Hack Their iPads
Via The Los Angeles Times | By Howard Blume LA Unified officials have a new problem on their hands – because of what LA Unified students have in their hands: iPads. A week after getting their new digital devices, nearly 300 students at Roosevelt High School compromised the security designed to block users from accessing such websites...
By LA School Report | September 25, 2013
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LA Unified Blames ‘Cumbersome’ Law for Dismissal Delay
The Los Angeles Unified School District today blamed state laws for why it took the district so long to dismiss an El Sereno Elementary School teacher who is facing a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing students as long ago as 2007. David Holmquist, the district’s chief lawyer, said in a press release today Armando Gonzalez was removed from...
By LA School Report | September 19, 2013