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LAUSD Budget Cuts: Matt Sorum Serenades The Board Meeting (VIDEO)
Huffington Post - Feb 15, 2012
It turns out that three minutes with a rock star is enough to make the Los Angeles Unified School District forget its troubles -- and delay massive budget cuts. Along with a consortium of teachers union reps and protesting parents, former Guns 'n' ...
LA school board delays vote on massive budget cuts
Los Angeles Times - Feb 15, 2012
The Los Angeles Board of Education has delayed a vote on a $6-billion budget plan that would cause thousands of employees to lose their jobs, end all adult education classes, and remove funding for early education and arts programs.
LA Unified board delays vote on $500M budget cuts
San Jose Mercury News - Feb 14, 2012
AP LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Unified School District's board on Tuesday postponed a decision to slash more than $500 million from next school year's budget, including the elimination of adult education, preschools and elementary arts.
Protesters decry proposed cuts to LA school programs
Los Angeles Times - Feb 14, 2012
Hundreds of adult-education and early-education supporters rallied outside of Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters Tuesday protesting a plan that would eliminate the budgets of the two programs. Students, teachers and supporters of the ...
LAUSD Adult Education Cuts To Be Voted On Tuesday
Huffington Post - Feb 13, 2012
Thousands of students and teachers at the nearly three dozen adult education and occupational centers in Los Angeles could be in for a very bitter Valentine's Day. The Los Angeles Unified School District board is set to vote Tuesday to cut the $200 ...
LAUSD Postpones Cuts to Adult Education
Bell Gardens Sun – Feb 16, 2012
By Gloria Angelina Castillo, EGP Staff Writer The Los Angeles Unified School District Tuesday postponed voting on the proposed elimination of adult education and other programs. The delay came after several loud protests during which hundreds of adults ...
LAUSD to Consider Parcel Tax Measure
Bell Gardens Sun - Feb 16, 2012
By City News Service The Los Angeles Unified School District board on Tuesday delayed a vote on proposed massive cuts to adult and early childhood education programs, instead instructing the superintendent to negotiate cost-saving measures with unions ...
Arts Education Still waiting for Axe to Fall
noho arts district - Feb 16, 2012
On Tuesday, Feb 14, the Los Angeles Unified School District School Board amended the budget-balancing plan for the 2012/2013 school year, postponing its adoption until March 13th. They have requested alternatives and additional options regarding ...
Mayor Expresses Support for Adult Education
Patch.com - Feb 15, 2012
South Gate Mayor Maria Davila, along with other members of the City Council, voiced concerns over cuts that the Los Angeles Unified School District is considering in adult education. What do you think? Take our poll. By Alejandro Lopez de Haro On ...
LAUSD Delays Budget Cut Vote, Seeks Alternatives
Patch.com - Feb 15, 2012
LAUSD's board of directors has asked Superintendent John Deasy to provide alternatives to a $557 million budget cut proposal that would have eliminated the district's elementary arts program. By Anthea Raymond Supt. John Deasy Courtesy of Marc Campos, ...
MATT SORUM Rallies Against LAUSD Budget Cuts In The Arts (Video) - Feb. 15, 2012
Blabbermouth.net - Feb 15, 2012
VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES drummer Matt Sorum spoke at Tuesday's (February 14) Los Angeles Unified School District board meeting where the board debated a $557 million budget cut to close a funding deficit in the district's $6 billion budget.
Los Angeles Unified School District Delays Voting on Cuts
California Report - Feb 15, 2012
The Los Angles Unified school board was set to approve more than 500 million dollars in budget cuts Tuesday. But it postponed the vote in order to give the Superintendant time to come up with an alternative proposal that would avoid massive layoffs, ...
Dark Clouds Loom for LAUSD's After-School Programs
Education Week News (blog) - Feb 15, 2012
By Nora Fleming on February 14, 2012 4:30 PM The Los Angeles Unified School District's board of education will likely be making some tough decisions on next year's budget today, including whether to eliminate the district's Beyond the Bell Youth ...
LAUSD Gets Temporary Reprieve From Massive Budget Cuts
CBS Local - Feb 15, 2012
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The Los Angeles Unified School District is getting a temporary reprieve from massive budget cuts, but thousands of teachers and staff members are still facing potential layoffs. The school board Tuesday delayed a vote on a $6 ...
LAUSD Delays Vote on Program Cuts, Warns Budget Slashing is Inevitable
Patch.com - Feb 14, 2012
The school board postponed threatened cuts to arts, early childhood and adult education classes, but authorized Superintendent John Deasy to ready layoff notices for teachers and to prepare a parcel tax proposal for voters.
LAUSD Board postpones vote on $557 million cut to adult ed, preschool, art as ...
89.3 KPCC (blog) - Feb 14, 2012
At today's Los Angeles Unified School District Board meeting, the board debated a $557 million budget cut to close a funding deficit in the district's $6 billion budget, but they delayed the vote until their March 13 meeting.
Parents, Teachers Protest LAUSD Budget Cuts
KTLA - Feb 14, 2012
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) -- Facing a half-billion-dollar deficit, the Los Angeles Unified School District is facing deep cuts and parents, teachers and students demonstrated Tuesday in response, hoping to save key programs.
LAUSD Adult Education Safe For Now
LA Weekly (blog) - Feb 14, 2012
By Tessa Stuart By Dennis Romero By Simone Wilson By Simone Wilson By Dennis Romero By Dennis Romero By Dennis Romero By Dennis Romero By Dennis Romero By Tessa Stuart Tue., Feb. 14 2012 at 7:54 PM LAUSD's Board of Education issued a stay of execution ...
LAUSD School Board Delays Massive Budget Cuts
Annenberg TV News - Feb 14, 2012
By Matthew Leland The Los Angeles Unified School District school board delayed their decision on proposed budget cuts to adult and early childhood education Tuesday, and took steps to try and reduce the size of the cuts before a final decision is ...
Arts, Adult, and Early Childhood Education Get Temporary Reprieve from ...
LAist - Feb 14, 2012
Advocates of art, adult, and early childhood instruction received some encouraging news today while the Los Angeles Unified School District board opted to delay the adoption of a controversial budget item that would wipe out three significant branches ...
LAUSD postpones decision on cutting adult education
Daily Breeze - Feb 14, 2012
By Barbara Jones Staff Writer Advocates for LAUSD's Adult Ed and Early Childhood programs plan demonstrate outside of LAUSD downtown Los Angeles headquarters on Tuesday, February 14, 2012. The vote was delayed. (Hans Gutknecht / Staff Photographer) ...
Matt Sorum of Guns 'n' Roses Stands Up for Arts Education, Woos LAUSD ...
LA Weekly (blog) - Feb 14, 2012
By Simone Wilson Tue., Feb. 14 2012 at 3:15 PM Of all the crucial LAUSD programs on the chopping block at today's board meeting -- like the entire adult-education department and after-school tutoring -- perhaps the most heart-wrenching was art ...
Opinion: Why I Fight for Adult Community Education
Patch.com - Feb 14, 2012
On that second lesson, no one—not our school district, not our state, not our country—should ever undermine that faith in the availability of basic education. by Luis Lopez More than 50 years later, you can still feel the uncertainty of those times in ...
LA Unified board hears pleas to keep adult schools
U-T San Diego - Feb 14, 2012
By AP LOS ANGELES — A parade of local elected officials, parents and community members is asking the Los Angeles Unified School District board to keep the district's adult education program as protesters demonstrate outside the meeting.
LAUSD Board of Education to vote on proposed school budget plan with no ...
89.3 KPCC - Feb 14, 2012
Teacher Hanriette Akoopians, from Limerick Elementary School, shows her protest sign during an education budget cuts rally and protest at Pershing Square on May 13, 2011 in downtown Los Angeles, California. With $450 million in cuts to make and ...
LAUSD Might Eliminate Adult Ed Today
LA Weekly (blog) - Feb 14, 2012
By Tessa Stuart Tue., Feb. 14 2012 at 10:50 AM When it came time to make cuts for the 2012-13 LAUSD budget, Superintendent John Deasy passed on the scalpel, opting for a chainsaw to hack away at a $557 million deficit. LAUSD's youngest and oldest ...
LAUSD board to discuss $550M in budget cuts
abc7.com - Feb 14, 2012
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles Unified School District board members voted unanimously not to adopt a controversial proposal Tuesday that would have eliminated many education programs in the district. But even thought those programs got a ...
LAUSD Teachers To Protest $557M In Proposed Cuts, Layoffs
CBS Local - Feb 14, 2012
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are expected to protest Tuesday as the school board meets to consider budget cuts and layoffs. The district will discuss its proposed $6 billion budget that calls for roughly $557 ...
LA school board mulls $557M in budget cuts
Modesto Bee - Feb 14, 2012
AP LOS ANGELES -- An overflow crowd is expected at the Los Angeles Unified school board meeting where members will consider millions of dollars in cuts to balance the budget. The board on Tuesday will consider a preliminary $6 billion operational ...
South Gate Adult Community School Worries About Funding
Patch.com - Feb 13, 2012
The Los Angeles Unified School District will vote Tuesday on whether to reduce or eliminate funding for adult schools. What do you think? Take our poll. By Alejandro Lopez de Haro Adult schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are ...
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