Sunday, October 25, 2009

WHY AMERICA IS FLUNKING SCIENCE: Don't just blame poor education for our nation's scientific illiteracy -- but our politics and pop culture

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By Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum | Salon.com Tom Hanks, Pierfrancesco Favino, David Pasquesi, Ayelet Zurer in a scene from ...

DISCUSSION, NOT FLAMING TORCHES, SHOULD DRIVE TEACHER PAY REFORM

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By Doug Lasken | Op-Ed in the LA Daily News 10/25/2009 03:48:34 PM  -- WE live in a time when government is a form of theater; it manages ...

HAWAI’I SCHOOLS MOVE TO FOUR-DAY WEEK IN COST CUTTING MEASURE + PARENTS PROTEST HAWAI’I SCHOOL CLOSURES

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• All 256 public schools in state to close for 'furlough Fridays' • Up to 171,000 children to be affected •  Schools to go to 16...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

PILOT STUDY OF CHARTER SCHOOLS’ COMPLIANCE WITH THE MODIFIED CONSENT DECREE AND THE LAUSD SPECIAL EDUCATION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES + CHARTER SCHOOLS BY DISABILITY DATA

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by the Office of the Independent Monitor | Modified Consent Decree (formerly known as the Chanda Smith Consent Decree) covering Special Ed a...

THE NEWS THAT DIDN’T FIT FROM OCT 25th

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PARENTS DESIGN L.A. PARENT INVOLVEMENT MODEL Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:56 AM By Ellen Noyes | The Children's Advocate -www.4Child...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

PARENTS AT SAN FERNANDO MIDDLE SCHOOL SPLIT ON SCHOOL CHOICE PLAN

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Written by Alex Garcia, Dan Fernando Valley Sun Contributing Writer en español: Padres de San Fernando Middle School Indecisos Sobre Plan ...

PARENTS DESIGN L.A. PARENT INVOLVEMENT MODEL

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By Ellen Noyes | The Children's Advocate -www.4Children.org| September-October 2009 Issue | Hot topics series en español Lo...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

DOMINIC SHAMBRA, LAUSD INSIDER 1939-2009

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by Howard Blume | L.A. Times October 19, 2009 |  7:44 pm - Dominic Shambra, a consummate school-district insider who sacrificed a distingu...

CALORIE LIMITS FOR SCHOOL LUNCHES ARE RECOMMENDED: An Institute of Medicine panel also urges lower sodium content under proposed guidelines for the National School Lunch Program, whose nutritional standards have not been updated since 1995.

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  By Mary MacVean | LA Times   October 20, 2009 -- Children would get fewer French fries and more dark green vegetables in school cafe...

SCHOOL DAY FOR OBAMA

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By Helene Cooper | NY Times Online photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Obama asked several children what books they were ...

STIMULUS SAVED 6,000 Ed JOBS IN L.A., REPORT SAYS: "It also means that we were able to avert massive class [size] expansion," Melody Barnes of President's domestic policy council says. We did?

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More than 250,000 full- and part-time jobs escaped budget cuts nationwide. A more complete accounting will be posted online next week. ...

Student Recovery Day: LA UNIFIED TAKES ANTI-TRUANCY EFFORTS DOOR-TO-DOOR -- Supt. Ramon Cortines and other top officials visit the homes of some of the 20,000 students who failed to show up this year. About a dozen teens began working out plans to return to school.

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By Howard Blume | LA Times   October 20, 2009 -- Los Angeles' top education official went door to door Monday to urge teens to retur...

Teachers' & Public Employees' Retirement Funds: CALIFORNIA LAUNCHING FRAUD SUIT AGAINST MAJOR BANK

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Reporting by Jim Christie | editing by Carol Bishopric of Reuters SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 19 (Reuters) - California Attorney General Jerry Bro...

GRIEF COUNSELORS AT HOLLYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL AFTER FOOTBALL PLAYERS DEATH

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LA Daily News Wire Services 10/19/2009 -- Grief counselors will be at Hollywood High School on Monday to comfort students distraught over ...
Monday, October 19, 2009

STUDENT RECOVERY DAY: Top L.A. school official hits streets to find dropouts + Free Pass for Dropouts

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by Howard Blume | LA Times Online/ LA Now blog Photo by Irfan  Khan / Los Angeles Times October 19, 2009 |  3:36 pm When Michael V...

NATIONAL ASSESSMENT GOVERNING BOARD HOLDING HEARINGS ON NAEP TESTING FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND ENGLISH LANAGAGE LEARNERS TODAY: Forums scheduled Oct. 19 in Los Angeles, and Nov. 9 in Washington, D.C.

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NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Stephaan Harris - (202) 357-7504 Stephaan.Harris@ed.gov WASHINGTON—The National As...

LAUSD SCHOOLS FACING BIG CHOICES IN REFORM: Charter option is not the only alternative

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By Connie Llanos, Staff Writer | LA Daily News Updated: 10/19/2009 -- The Los Angeles Unified District is just weeks away from launching ...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

The news that didn’t fit from Oct 18

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SAN DIEGO BATTLE A PREVIEW ON U.S. DEBATE ON EDUCATION Sunday, October 18, 2009 8:09 AM San Diego Superintendent spreads the gospel o...