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.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Where have you gone, Paul Volcker? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

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Alan Greenspan has been discredited in a flood of mea-culpas; a desperate nation looks about for a new Oracle of Wall Street to make sense o...
Sunday, October 26, 2008

The news that doesn’t fit from October 26

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L.A. Downtown News: NO ON MEASURE Q Oct. 27, 2008  DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - We think cynical greed lies at the heart of Measure Q, the s...

Taxing campaigns

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Outreach campaigns from the LA Times October 25, 2008 -- Critics complain that some public agencies in Los Angeles County are using tax ...
Friday, October 24, 2008

L.A. Downtown News: NO ON MEASURE Q

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L.A. downtown news editorial   ●●smf2¢ - Obviously (and obliviously)  the LAUSD team promoting Measure Q was unable ...

LOTTERY REVENUE FALLS AGAIN = Less money for schools

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Sour economy hits California Lottery too: Tickets sales have dropped two years in a row. That means less money for schools and raises questi...

CalPERS SUFFERS 20% FALL IN PENSION FUND ASSETS, CalSTRS takes 9.4% HIT

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Calpers, America's largest public pension fund, could be forced to ask the employers who fund it for more money after suffering a 20pc d...

EXPO LINE PROJECT HITS A CURVE IN THE TRACKS: Los Angeles Unified School District says crossings at Dorsey High and Foshay Learning Center would pose a danger to students.

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By Steve Hymon | LA TIMES October 23, 2008 -- When will trains ever roll into the Westside? The Expo Line light rail from downtown Los A...

GRANADA HILLS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS STOLE OR VIEWED SAT EXAM + U P D A T E: The campus' executive director says five students were involved. The scores could be invalidated

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By Mitchell Landsberg | LA Times Staff Writer October 23, 2008 -- The head of Granada Hills Charter High School acknowledged to parents We...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

PUBLIC-SCHOOL MOMS ASK: WHAT ABOUT EDUCATION?

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From the LA Times Homeroom Blog October 22, 2008 -- More than 10,000 people are gathering today at the Long Beach Convention Center for th...

COMMENTS BY BARBARA LEDTERMAN, VICE-PRESIDENT FOR EDUCATION of CALIFORNIA STATE PTA at the EDUCATION COALITION MEDIA BRIEFING - October 20, 2008

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from PTA+Ed Coalition Press and public information releases California State PTA Th...

LA ARTS HIGH SCHOOL BRINGS PRESTIGE, HIGH COST

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By Jacob Adelman, Associated Press Writer from USA Today The inside of the library building at the Los Angele...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

EXPECTING EXCELLENCE: EXCELLENCE FOR ALL

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by Robert J. Sternberg October 2008 | Volume 66 | Number 2 Pages 14-19 There's more to excellence than reading, writing, and ...
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TEENS FROM STRUGGLING L.A. PUBLIC CAMPUS GET A CHANCE TO SHINE AT PRESTIGIOUS PRIVATE SCHOOLS: With full scholarships and a strong support network, three students from low-income immigrant families enter the world of educational privilege and widened opportunities.

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PHOTO: Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times Heven Ambaye, 14, is guided by her teacher Sarah Bishop in yoga class at the Brentwood School. S...
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Monday, October 20, 2008

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM L.A.: Tracing the Rise-and-Fall Pattern of Urban School Reform

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—Illustration by Patricia Raine EdWeek Commentary by Charles Taylor Kerchner Published Online: October 17, 2008 Published in Prin...

$400M HIGH SCHOOL OPENS TEN YEARS BEHIND SCHEDULE

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cbs2.com  - Wire services contributed to this report Oct 18, 2008 -- LOS ANGELES  -- The most expensive high school in Los Angeles history...
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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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