Monday, April 30, 2007

smf remarks at The Jack and Denny Smith Library and Community Center at Mount Washington School

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I have been asked by a number of people (two’s number, right?) to circulate my remarks made at the ribbon cutting ceremony for The Jack ...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

LAUSD SEES A FUTURE IN CAREER ED

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by Rick Wartzman | California & Co./LA Times April 27, 2007 — Aa Supt. David L. Brewer pledged last week to transform the culture ...

BOARD BATTLE: MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA’S SCHOOL TAKEOVER BID HAS COME DOWN TO A RUNOFF ON THE BOARD OF EDUCATION

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by Dean Kuipers | Los Angeles CityBeat Saturday, April 28, 2007 - School reform may have dominated the agenda of Los Angeles Mayor Ant...

LUNCH AT L.A. UNIFIED: A FEW PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE TWEAKING THEIR CAFETERIA MENUS; IS IT WORTH THE EFFORT?

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By Joel Stein, LA Times Columnist April 27, 2007 — Unless you were in jail, at a state-run nursing facility or flying coach on Aeroflo...

SCHOOLS DO NEED OVERSIGHT

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Editorial: LA Downtown News A couple of weeks ago Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was handed his hat and shown the door by the Second Distric...

'OPEN COURT' STILL ON TRIAL IN LAUSD: Curriculum debated as election looms

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by Naush Boghossian, Staff Writer, LA Daily News April 28, 2007 — Seven years after Los Angeles Unified expanded the Open Court curr...
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A DRILL CAN'T FIX LAUSD: The mayor can no longer rely on giddy enthusiasm in his quest to reform L.A. schools.

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by Sandra Tsing Loh, Contributing editor, LA Times SANDRA TSING LOH is a contributing editor to LA Times Opinion (the Op-ed section on...

District school honored for design

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from LATimes' SchoolMe! blog Apr 27, 2007 1:18:10 PM - L.A. Unified's Maywood Acade...
Friday, April 27, 2007

WE DON’T KNEAD NO COOKIE DOUGH!

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by Dan Basalone & Scott Folsom | from the AALA Newsletter • Basalone is the Executive Director of Associated Administrators of LA ...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

A POOR GRADE FOR LAUSD SCHOOL AGAIN: Westchester High ranks in bottom fifth in state. Review hits on achievement, communication, truancy & discipline

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By Paul Clinton, Daily Breeze Staff Writer Thursday, April 26, 2007 — A top-to-bottom review of Westchester High School urged admi...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

For Girls, It’s Be Yourself, and Be Perfect, Too

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Ruth Fremson/The New York Times In an honors philosophy/literature class, Esther Mobley, center, participates in a discussion of “Man’s Se...