4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit

This page is a compendium of items of interest - news stories, scurrilous rumors, links, academic papers, damnable prevarications, rants and amusing anecdotes - about LAUSD and/or public education that didn't - or haven't yet - made it into the "real" 4LAKids blog and weekly e-newsletter at http://www.4LAKids.blogspot.com . 4LAKidsNews will be updated at arbitrary random intervals.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Rearranging the Deck Chairs: IT Project Failures :: TURNAROUND STRATEGY FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOL DISTRICT PAYROLL FAILURE

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The Techies weigh in! Why shouldn't they? ...they're the ones who'll have to fix it. Posted to ZDNET: Tech News, Blogs and Whit...
Friday, October 12, 2007

How Higher Ed Can Fix K-12

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smf opines: Just when one thought UCI had extricated itself from the Chemerinsky Law School debacle and it seems t...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Podcast - BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO: Sub-Districts in the LAUSD

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From Patt Morrsion | KPCC | Wednesday October 10 Debates over education policy in the Los Angeles Unified School District never lack for pol...

Commentary from Las Virgines: FUNDING FINESSE – CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EDUCATION STILL ON A FISCAL 'ROLLER COASTER'

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▼As LAUSD slips further and further down the political slippery slope and deeper and deeper into the educational quicksand – and some dream...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Commentary from Canada: EXPAND EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM OF CHOICE FOR ALL PARENTS

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By Preston Manning - From Tuesday's Globe and Mail ( Toronto ) OK, one asks, what do the schools in Canada have to to with public ...
Saturday, October 06, 2007

The news that didn't fit from Oct 7th!

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► Ed Week: PUSH TO REVAMP HIGH SCHOOLS OFF TRACK, SCHOLARS SAY - OVEREMPHASIS SEEN IN RATCHETING UP STANDARDS AT EXPENSE OF BROADER VIEW OF ...

PUSH TO REVAMP HIGH SCHOOLS OFF TRACK, SCHOLARS SAY + EXEC SUMMARY OF REPORT + LINK TO THE WHOLE THING

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Note: Jeanne Oakes of UCLA IDEA is a member of the LAUSD A-G Task Force Ed Week: PUSH TO REVAMP HIGH SCHOOLS OFF TRACK, SCHOLARS...

OUT OF THE TOWER AND INTO THE CLASSROOM: Connecting research to teaching the key to success

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Opinion by Deborah Stipek | Dallas Morning News Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - Why are we having so much difficulty increasing student ...

LOS ANGELES USD TRIES OUT MASS NOTIFICATIONS

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by Dave Nagel | THE Journal (Technology Horizons in Education) The Los Angeles Unified School District is deploying a mass notificat...

both sides now: AUTOMATED TELEPHONE NOTIFICATION OF PARENTS

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Logging off e-monitoring of child's schoolwork Sandy Banks From the Los Angeles Times September 29, 2007 - I was cooking dinner w...
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Scott Folsom is a parent and parent leader in LAUSD. He is the former President of Los Angeles 10th District PTSA and represents PTA as Vice-chair the LAUSD Construction Bond Citizen's Oversight Committee. Scott is a member of the California State PTA Board on Managers. He serves on various school district advisory and policy committees and is or has been a PTA officer and/or governance council member at three LAUSD schools. He is an elected neighborhood councilmember of the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council in Northeast LA, representing Mount Washington. www.asnc.us • In this forum his opinions are his own and your opinions and feedback are invited. • Quoted and/or cited content copyright © the original author and/or publisher. All other material copyright © 4LAKids. • To SUBSCRIBE to the weekly 4LAKids e-mail newsletter e-mail: 4LAKids-subscribe@topica.email-publisher.com - or -TO ADD YOUR OR ANOTHER'S NAME TO THE 4LAKids SUBCRIPTION LIST E-MAIL smfolsom@aol.com with "SUBSCRIBE" AS THE SUBJECT. Thank you.
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