SELLERY SPECIAL ED CENTER FACES CLOSURE: Budget woes may force LAUSD to eliminate Gardena school for disabled students.
Sunday, March 08, 2009
By Melissa Pamer, Staff Writer, Daily Breeze
Angeles Perez's 11-year-old son is mildly retarded, autistic and suffers from seizures. He barely speaks, and
TWO FOUNDATIONS GIVE SCHOOLS $1.75M GRANT: Funds will be used to improve graduation rates.
Sunday, March 08, 2009 By Rick Orlov, Staff Writer | LA Newspaper Group (Daily News/Daily Breeze) March 7 - The Los Angeles Unified School District this week received a $1.75 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation to help with reform efforts. The grant will fund an 18-month program supporting three projects sponsored by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles that are
DEALING WITH THE LATINO EDUCATION CRISIS
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Press release from Teachers College @ Columbia University 3/3/2009 -- For Patricia Gandara, Co-director of the Civil Rights Project at the University California at Los Angeles, the educational outlook for Hispanics is grim: Although Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the nation, they drop out of high school at alarming rates
ATTEMPTS TO WHITEWASH CALIFORNIA’S EDUCATION
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
By You Jong Kim | Contributing Writer | Notes from the Field | The Daily Californian News Blog - The student newspaper of the University of California Tuesday, March 3, 2009 -- The UC Board of Regents approved major changes to their admissions system, including a decision to end a system-wide standard that required students to send in two SAT II Subject Test scores as part of the admissions
ARNOLDS MAY SPECIAL ELECTION: Just Say NO!
“ I don’t fault Democrats for using any means necessary to pass a state budget. But now that Propositions 1A-1F are on the ballot, voters don’t have to approve them – and the Democrats shouldn’t encourage them. ” Editorial by by Paul Hogarth | from Beyond Chron, San Francisco's Online Daily Mar. 03‚ 2009-- I’ve been on record supporting a special election to get the budget reform
Field Poll: VOTERS BOO BUDGET, BACK BALLOT ITEMS
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
SACBEE CAPTOLALERT: Edited by Shayne Goldmacher March 3, 2009 -- A new Field Poll shows that California voters are dissatisfied (55 percent) with the state budget passed by the Legislature last month. Those likely to vote in the May 19 budget special election are even more unhappy (65 percent). The plan contains a broad swath of tax hikes and deep spending cuts. Come to think of it, who are
U P D A T E: Picking up the threads of 'Quilters'
Monday, March 02, 2009 by smf to 4LAKids You probably saw the article about how the poor Theater Arts Dept @ Chatsworth HS had to cancel the spring play in Sandy Banks Column in the Times on Friday, posted on the 4LAKids blog + email newsletter yesterday Sandy Banks Picking up the threads of 'Quilters' February 28, 2009 As the late Paul Harvey was wont to say, here is the rest of the story:
UNIONS HOLD THE WILD CARD ON PROPOSED STATE SPENDING CAP
Monday, March 02, 2009
By Kevin Yamamura | The Sacramento Bee How ‘sweet’ does it have to be before the diabetes kicks in? - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urges support for six budget measures – topped by a state spending cap and school funding sweeteners – in a special election May 19.
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACCOUNTABILITY: As it prepares to revamp the No Child Left Behind Act, the Obama administration must show what we're getting for the money.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Editorial From the Los Angeles Times March 2, 2009 - The conundrum of school reform is that you can't expect more accountability without funding, but you also can't add significant new funding without demanding accountability. As the Obama administration gears up to
BIG MOTHER IS WATCHING: These days, children's grades, homework, even what they had for lunch is just a mouse click away. But if parents know all, how much of a private life is left for the kids?
Monday, March 02, 2009 By Karin Klein | Opinion/Commentary From the Los Angeles Times March 2, 2009 -- Time was, kids would come home to show off their latest test, adorned with a star from the teacher. At the dinner table, they talked about
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