The news that didn't fit from Nov Feb 1st

CTA, PTA BLAST BUDGET PROPOSAL TO ELIMINATE K-3 CLASS SIZE REDUCTION

EDUCATION COALITION BUDGET BRIEFING + 22 News Stories on local impact of budget fiasco

STATEWIDE POLL SHOWS CALIFORNIANS FAVOR PROTECTING K-12 EDUCATION FROM CUTS …AS THE GOVERNOR AND LAWMAKERS CONSIDER SLASHING BILLION$ MORE FROM CALIFORNIA STUDENTS

LAUSD TEACHERS TO BOYCOTT STUDENT TESTS + UTLA BOYCOTT FLYER and Q&A

From KABC.com

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Teachers for the L.A. Unified School District will boycott what they call unnecessary and expensive students tests starting on Tuesday.

The United Teachers Los Angeles union says the tests are not mandated by the state or federal government and cost as much as $150 million to administer.

The union says that money could be better spent instead of laying off teachers, increasing class sizes and cutting school programs.

The LAUSD has not commented on the boycott.

+ THE UTLA FLYER FROM UTLA.NET (27 Jan)

LAUSD NIXES CHARTER SCHOOL LOAN PLAN: Proposal is pulled from agenda after criticism.

By George B. Sanchez, Staff Writer | LA Newspaper Group

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - A plan calling for the Los Angeles Unified School District to make short-term loans to charter schools was scrapped after the idea drew sharp criticism from officials who said the district is not a bank.

The proposal, which was to be discussed at today's board meeting, was pulled from the agenda late last week after board members alerted Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who said he didn't know how the plan got on the agenda.

OTHER LAUSD NEWS from Google:

2009 academic decathlon season begins without Taft Los Angeles Daily News, CA - We just couldn't convince them." The Los Angeles Unified School District is a national powerhouse in academic decathlon contests.

LAUSD, Park & Red deal to be reviewed Daily Breeze, CA - An agreement between the city's Recreation and Parks Department and the Los Angeles Unified School District will be among items discussed at 6:30 pm Monday at a meeting of the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council Recreation andParks Committee.

Los Angeles public school teachers protest budget cuts and layoffs World Socialist Web Site, MI - Jan 30, 2009 As a consequence of California's budget crisis, the Los Angeles Unified School District is anticipating a $500 million budget reduction.

State Budget Crisis May Hit Students in the Stomach Bell Gardens Sun, CA - Jan 30, 2009 By Paul Aranda Jr., EGP Staff Writer As California lawmakers remain stalled over a solution to the current budget shortfalls, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) officials announced last week that it may run out of money needed to feed students ...

Out With the Trading, in With the Dancing Downtown LA Scene, CA - Jan 30, 2009 It neighbors the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters on Beaudry Avenue, and stands within a couple blocks of a new high school, the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center, and residential projects the Belmont Station Apartments and Canvas LA ...

EPCC SUPPORTS UTLA JANUARY 29 MASS ACTION AGAINST LAUSD AND STATE ... Bay Area Indymedia, CA - Jan 30, 2009 ... the Pershing Square to protest budget cuts by the California state Governor and the legislature as well as the excessive and lavish spending spree of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)at the expense of teachers as well as the public.

As the bailout goose lays her golden eggs, who is guarding the ... Accountingweb.com, OH - Jan 30, 2009 ... against fraud in California, and at school districts, after spending 30 years fighting inappropriate spending at the local, state, and federal level, including over six years as the Inspector General of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Thousands of LA teachers protest proposed cuts San Diego Union Tribune, CA - Jan 30, 2009 AP LOS ANGELES - Thousands of teachers marched through downtown streets Thursday to protest proposed cuts in education staffing.

Teachers rally against education budget cuts Los Angeles Times, CA - Jan 30, 2009 Arnold Schwarzenegger and his proposed budget, but speakers also took aim at the Los Angeles Unified School District and schools Supt. Ramon C. Cortines. "Mr. Cortines, tear down this bureaucracy now," said AJ Duffy, president of United Teachers Los ...

LAT Minimizes School Sex Scandals But Trumpets Flimsy Story on ... NewsBusters - Jan 29, 2009 Last November, a coordinator for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) filed a lawsuit that included the astonishing charge that he had objected to a principal being assigned to a middle school because of a molestation-related investigation ...