The Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez Learning Center: FIRST NEW EASTSIDE SCHOOL IN 80 YEARS HAS A LOT TO LIVE UP TO
By Gloria Angelina Castillo, EGP Staff Writer |Eastside Sun / Northeast Sun A new $106 million state-of-the-art school named for a couple who sued to end school segregation and discrimination in the 1940s and won, opened this week in the densely populated eastside neighborhood of Aliso Pico.
LAUSD's FINEST: THE Los Angeles School Police –0r - How an oblivious school board lets a tiny, scandal-ridden force endanger L.A. kids
By Max Taves published September 3, 2009 in the LA Weekly smf opines+whines: This article - complete with lurid accounts of student sexual abuse under color of authority and posed pictures by professional models like a bad detective magazine - makes some very serious allegations that are hard to take seriously; charges about people with whom I have a professional relationship and a modicum
…AND THERE THEY GO
By BETTY PLEASANT, Contributing Editor, The Los Angeles Wave Updated: Sep 2, 2009 at 11:31 PM PDT -- The Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa-controlled LAUSD board seems to be rushing head-long and willy-nilly into doing whatever it wants to do in any manner it chooses to do it. Latest case in point: They’re changing the rules of the board of education Buoyed by her success last week in leading
CALIFORNIA CLASS SIZES GROW AS BUDGET CUTS TAKE HOLD
By Anthony York | CAPITOL WEEKLY 09/03/09 – Sacramento - Next week is back to school week for thousands of children and parents across California. But this year, many parents may be in for an unpleasant surprise on their elementary school child’s first day of school. Classes that were essentially capped at 20 students for kindergarten through third grade are growing in size thanks to state
SUPERINTENDENT CORTINES GIVES ANNUAL ADDRESS
Written by Sentinel News Service | Thursday, September 3 - September 9, 2009 ISSUE Aug 26 - Stressing a continued focus on academic achievement and instruction, Los Angeles Unified School District( LAUSD) Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines challenged more than 2,000 administrators and principals to create a personalized learning experience for students, parents as well as teachers and staff in
A's OR B's GIVEN TO MOST [NEW YORK] CITY SCHOOLS
THE SCHOOL REPORT CARD ON THE RIGHT COAST where the mayor wants the schools to look good: "Suddenly, New York City looks like Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average…" By JENNIFER MEDINA and ROBERT GEBELOFF | NY Times September 2, 2009 -- The news could have been cause for a huge celebration: a whopping 97 percent of New York’s elementary and middle schools earning an A
EXIT EXAM SCORES UP
CITY NEWS SERVICE 3 Sept 2009 - LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Seventy-one percent of Los Angeles Unified 10th graders passed the English portion of the 2009 California High School Exit Exam, while 70 percent passed the math section, up slightly from the previous year, state education officials announced today. The percentage of LAUSD 10th graders passing the English language arts section of the exit
PROBLEMS MONEY CAN'T SOLVE
By Ruben Navarrette , Columnist in the San Diego Union Tribune smf: in the print edition of the Union Tribune this column ran with the Headline: Money can't fix all failures in education. Does everyone remember the LA Magazine cover with The Mayor and the big headline Failure.? Do you know how hard it was to not run this column with that image
CORTINES LETTER TO LAUSD STAFF RE: ‘PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE’ RESOLUTION
Public School Choice Resolution Cortines Letter
This just in: VERDUGO HILLS HIGH TO BE EMERGENCY EVACUATION SITE FOR STATION FIRE
by smf | overheard on the radio 7AM Tuesday1 Sept Verdugo Hills High School in Suland/Tujunga will be the first LAUSD school in the current catastrophe to be used as an emergency shelter. For the time being the gymnasium will be used for shelter and the school will remain open . image from the UCLA Mt Wilson WebCam STATION FIRE: Updated Info
HUIZAR CLEARED IN U.S. PROBE, LAUSD to pay Garcia’s legal fees
by Howard Blume | LA Times California Briefing Sept 1, 2009 -- Officials have closed a federal investigation into Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar's consulting work for a now-defunct nonprofit linked to organized labor. Huizar had received about $30,000 from the Improvement Program for consulting services he performed in 2003 and 2004 while serving as an elected board member for the Los
DON’T EQUATE CHARTER SCHOOLS WITH “CHARTER LITE"
LAUSD and Los Angeles has more charter schools and charter schools than any school district –and has a complicated relationship with them. I-Division/Partnership/Pilot Schools are attempts to make charters over to fit someone else's vision or agenda of what charters can or should be. In her letter, following, to The Notebook, the Independent Voice for Parents, Educators, Students of
LOW PERFORMING SCHOOLS: Subject to Transformation / Take-Over / Give-Away/Privatization /'Green-Dot-ification' under Public School Choice: A New Way at LAUSD
The list of the schools.
The other shoe drops: AN OPEN LETTER TO BOARD PRESIDENT GARCIA FROM BOARD MEMBER LAMOTTE
Sunday, 30 August, 2009 1:09PM Monica, I have just read your memo dated (actually it is not dated) entitled “Proposed Changes to Rules of the Board of Education”. My first reaction was that after the controversy caused by the Board’s action on Tuesday and the possible legal ramifications of that, let’s find another way to alienate and disenfranchise the people who elected us to office – not
The other shoe drops: PROPOSED CHANGES TO RULES OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
4LAKids questions whether circulation of a memo such as the following violates the Brown Act in that it is an advocacy piece from one board member to the others inviting subsequent discussion and perhaps triggers a serial meeting. -----Original Message----- From: Cooper, Amy Sent: Thu 8/27/2009 10:18 AM Subject: From Board President García To: Lamotte, Marguerite; Garcia,
THE FORK DEBATE
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” - Yogi Berra by Laura Thomas in Ed Week August 10, 2005 -- My husband and I argue over forks. Specifically, we argue over the direction the forks should point in the dishwasher. Tines up, I assert, results in an assured poke in the hand when one (usually me) reaches into the dishwasher to unload. Tines down, he responds, leads to dirty
HIGH MARKS FOR NEW ORLEANS’ CHARTER SCHOOLS
By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY NEW ORLEANS — The devastation of Hurricane Katrina four years ago brought with it many changes for this city, but perhaps its most enduring mark may be the new charter school system that came cascading in during the storm's aftermath. Take, for instance, the students at Langston Hughes Academy. Once struggling to meet state testing standards, they're getting a lot of
LAUSD’s NEXT STEP/PRÓXIMO PASO DEL LAUSD
LAUSD’s next step Editorial| La Opinión 2009-08-30 -- The Board of Education of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) approved a measure this week to open up 250 schools to private operators in an attempt to improve student achievement. The action is one positive response to the frustration expressed by parents, but it is just
Q: What is a PI 3+ School?
CALIFORNIA FATHER asked what a Program Improvement Three plus school is. Good question - let me attempt a good and hopefully helpful AND correct answer!Simply stated this is a school that has not met it's NCLB Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) Goals in one or more subgroups for three years in succession or longer. Note that these need not be the same subgroups missed in all three years.As such PI 3+
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