STAFF DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS DEEMED FRAGMENTED: Training Still Tends to Take Place Outside Schools
Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:02 PM
By Stephen Sawchuk | EdWeek | Vol. 28, Issue 21, Page 7 11 Feb 2008 – Washington -- Although American teachers spend more working hours in classrooms than do instructors in some of the top-performing European and Asian countries, U.S. students have scored in the middle of the pack on a number of prominent international exams in recent years. That paradox appears to stem at least in part from
URBAN DISTRICTS COMPARE NOTES ON OPERATIONS:
Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:50 AM
By Dakarai I. Aarons | EdWeek | Vol. 28, Issue 21, Pages 1,14 Published in Print: February 11, 2009 -- Urban school systems are large businesses, charged with running a wide range of noninstructional functions that typically don’t garner them much national notice. But now, thanks to the work of a coalition of big-city districts, their leaders are gathering data on how those operations
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS, SCHWARZENEGGER REACH TENTATIVE BUDGET DEAL
Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:17 AM
Giveth+Taketh away: The plan would cut $8.6 billion in K-14 education funding, but under the deal lawmakers would ask voters to change state law to restore that money for schools. By Dan Smith and Kevin Yamamura | Sacramento Bee Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 -- Legislative leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have reached a tentative deal to close the state's projected $40
DEAL REACHED ON $789 BILLION STIMULUS PACKAGE
Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:14 AM
Zachary Coile, San Francisco Chronicle Washington Bureau The final package, likely to be approved by week's end, will be less generous to California than the House version of the bill. But the state will still reap tens of billions of dollars for education, infrastructure, health care costs and other programs. Thursday, February 12, 2009 -- House and Senate leaders, under intense
Steve Zimmer: SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE LOOKS TO APPLY EXPERIENCE AS A TEACHER, COUNSELOR, ACTIVIST
Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:05 AM
BY VINCE ECHAVARIA | The Argonaut Thursday, February 12, 2009 - As a 17-year educator, Steve Zimmer is hoping to apply his experience as a counselor and work with innovative classroom programs as a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board of Education. Zimmer, who has spent his teaching career at Marshall High School in Silver Lake, is seeking the school board's
LAUSD REACHES THREE-YEAR DEAL WITH EMPLOYEES UNIONS ON HEALTH BENEFITS
Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:54 AM
LAUSD reaches three-year deal with teachers unions on health benefits Adolfo Guzman-Lopez | 89.3FM KPCC Listen February 11, 2009 -- The Los Angeles Unified School District and eight of its labor unions unveiled a tentative health and welfare agreement today that affects 250,000 employees, retirees, and their dependents. KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez has the story. Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: Both
UNIONS, LAUSD AGREE ON HEALTH PLAN
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 4:40 PM
KNBCNews BREAKING NEWS: 4:00 PM PST, Wed, Feb 11, 2009 AP - Jan. 29, 2008: Hundreds of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers and others take to the streets in a rally organized by their union, United Teachers Los Angeles, to protest state and local cuts to schools funding, in downtown Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES -- One day after the union representing Los Angeles Unified School
RALLYING FOR SCHOOL FUNDS: Educators, parents protest proposed budget cuts, citing kids as custodians of future economy.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 4:50 PM
Education Demonstrators rally Tuesday at Glenoaks Elementary School. Reducing school funding would “put an entire generation of children at risk,” which “threatens the future workforce and economy,” said California PTA President Pam Brady. (Alex Collins/News-Press) By Zain Shauk | Glendale news Press Feb 11 - NORTH GLENDALE — State Supt. of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell rallied with
ARNOLD. GOP LEGISLATORS GET AN “F” IN EDUCATION
Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:17 AM
Peter Dreier | The Huffington Post Read More: California Education Coalition, California School Boards Association; Association Of California School Administrators; Parent Teacher Association, California Teachers Association, Education; Budget; California; Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schools, Superintendents, Taxes, Teachers, Politics News Posted February 9, 2009 | 06:33 PM (EST) You don't
THREE TOUGH STEPS TO FISCAL SANITY IN CALIFORNIA
Monday, February 09, 2009 12:18 PM
George Skelton, Capitol Journal | LA Times February 9, 2009 -- From Sacramento -- California state government is collapsing. It has been for years, actually. Something needs to change drastically. As President Obama remarked last week at a congressional Democratic retreat: "If you're headed for a cliff, you've got to change directions." Sacramento is sliding fast toward the cliff's edge.
CHARTER SCHOOLS STRUGGLE TO SECURE SUITABLE CAMPUSES:
Monday, February 09, 2009 12:11 PM
L.A. Unified is required to provide space for charter schools, but many have been operating out of hotels and sharing campuses with traditional schools for years as unused campuses remain closed. By Raja Abdulrahim | LA Times February 9, 2009 -- More than five years ago, Ivy Academia's campus was a Hilton hotel. Students poured water from silver pitchers and teachers used ballrooms as
L.A. CHARTER STAFF REACHES TO TEACHER’S UNION
Monday, February 09, 2009 12:10 PM
Saying that things have changed at the celebrated campus, nearly 80% of faculty at the Accelerated School, near downtown, have turned in signature cards indicating a desire to join UTLA. By Howard Blume | LA Times February 9, 2009 -- A teacher-driven effort to unionize a celebrated Los Angeles charter school has, for the first time, extended the reach of the powerful local teachers union
Monday, February 09, 2009 11:34 AM
By Melissa Pamer, Staff Writer | Los Angeles Newspaper Group 2/9/09 -- After taking an unexpected turn last year, the race to replace Marlene Canter on the Los Angeles school board assumed an unusual dynamic: It became teacher versus teacher. Two candidates have remained in the contest, following surprise signature- gathering glitches that knocked out a potential front-runner and another
SANTA ANA SEEKS TO EASE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS: The current requirement of 240 credits, one of the toughest in the state, leaves students little room to retake failed courses. Officials hope lowering it to 220 will decrease the dropout rate.
Sunday, February 08, 2009 1:28 PM
Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times - Brito David, left, and Eldi Urquiza, both 15, learn woodworking at Valley High School in Santa Ana. By Tony Barboza | Los Angeles Times February 8, 2009 -- While high schools across the state are toughening their graduation requirements to prepare students for college, one of the state's largest school districts is planning to make it easier for students to
Sunday, February 08, 2009 12:53 PM
OpEd in the Los Angeles Newspaper Group By Richard J. Riordan, David A. Lehrer and Joe R. Hicks February 8, 2009 -- Los Angeles is often referred to as the "entertainment capital of the world," with ample justification. The studios, stars and multimedia companies located here are truly the source of much of the world's diversions. Last week, however, the city was entertaining the world for
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