Tuesday, November 24, 2009

B U D G E T - LAUSD TO HALVE ITS LOCAL OFFICES: Even with closing local centers, deficit and thousands of layoffs still loom for coming year

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By Connie Llanos, Staff Writer | LA Daily News Updated: 11/24/2009 08:43:55 PM PST In a concession to unions, Los Angeles Unified Schoo...

When a little transparency reveals a little too much: AALA & SUPERINTENDENT CORTINES’ FRIDAY THE 13th LETTER

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From the AALA WEEKLY UPDATE NEWSLETTER Week of November 16, 2009 On Friday, November 13, Superintendent Cortines e-mailed a letter to LAUS...

SOME L.A. UNIFIED WORKERS AGREE TO FURLOUGHS / CORTINES IMPOSES HIRING, TRAVEL, FOOD FREEZE: Two SEIU units representing 20,000 cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other employees overwhelmingly approve the move to help close the district's large budget gap.

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By Jason Song | LA Times November 24, 2009 -- About 20,000 Los Angeles school district workers have agreed to four unpaid furlough days to...

ANOTHER GROUP FILES APPLICATION TO RUN 3o ‘PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE’ CAMPUSES: Misses deadline, accepted anyway

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Daily Breeze website from staff reports 11/24/2009 07:09:10 AM PST | A fourth group has applied to run Gardena and San Pedro high schools ...
Monday, November 23, 2009

NO UNIFORM SOLUTION: Uniforms make students look sharper and create a safer environment, but they can't raise a school's achievement level.

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By: Erik Hayden   | News Blog : Miller-McCune Online Magazine    |  In assessing the pros and cons of school uniforms, it appears that o...

LA SCHOOLS CHIEF ORDERS HIRING FREEZE: Ramon Cortinez (sic) also announced other expense cuts.

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LAUSD Superintendent of Schools Ramon Cortines. Text Story by City News Service | MyFoxNewsLA.com Posted by: Scott Coppersmith Monday...

CHOICES ROILING VALLEY SCHOOL: Competition causes apprehension at San Fernando campus.

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By Connie Llanos, Staff Writer | LA Daily News 11/23 -- The last two months have been a whirlwind of meetings and deadlines for Eduardo S...
Friday, November 20, 2009

CELLPHONES IN SCHOOLS: FLIP 'EM OPEN

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EdWeek Commentary By Matt Levinson Published Online: November 20, 2009 | Cheating in school is not a new phenomenon. The game has just c...

Hiltzik on WWLA/KCRW: CALIFORNIA SCHOOL FUNDING SYSTEM 'RIDICULOUSLY COMPLEX'

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LA Times LA Now Blog | November 20, 2009 |  2:21 pm Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik took measure of California's system for ...

wsj: THE EDSEL OF EDUCATION REFORM - The Ford Foundation finds a needy cause: teachers unions.

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Wall Street Journal Editorial NOVEMBER 17, 2009 -- We hate to say it, but don't be misled by headlines. The biggest headline in edu...

REPUBLICANS CRITICIZE DISMISSAL OF AMERICORPS WATCHDOG: A GOP report contends that the Obama White House was politically motivated when it fired inspector general Gerald Walpin after his 2008 investigation of Kevin Johnson, now Sacramento's mayor.

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●● If Public Education is Tragedy and LAUSD is Farce, the goings-on in the US Dept of Ed approach Soap Opera: Bi-coastal Romance… Intrig...

BRIEFLY: Education Headlines from L.A. Now

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UCLA students end a day of protest over fee hikes 11/19/2009, 8:14 p.m. Castaic finally closing in on getting its own high sch...

PARCELING PAIN: The ghost of proposed parcel tax returns to haunt L.A. homeowners

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LA Daily News Editorial 20 November 2009 -- THE Los Angeles Unified School District has taken its lumps from the current recession - tea...

GROUP CALLS FOR PILOT SCHOOL SYSTEM ON THE EASTSIDE

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Grupo Quiere Nueva Tradición de Rendimiento Excelente, Comenzando con la Nueva Preparatoria Torres By Gloria Angelina Castillo, EGP ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Headlines that say it all: MIAMI-DADE SCHOOL BOARD BANS SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS FROM TEXTING WHILE DRIVING

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…just like that; they looked up from answering e-mails and twttering amongst themselves and voted!  Imagine.  - smf

THE PLAYERS ARE REVEALED FOR REFORMING SAN FERNANDO MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Written by Diana Martinez, Editor | San Fernando Valley Sun Wednesday, 18 November 2009 Ford Roosevelt from Project Grad submitted a l...

ADVOCATING PUBLIC EDUCATION ROUNDUP

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from the solidaridad blog by Robert D. Skeels Monday, November 16, 2009 -- I recently interviewed Peri Lynn Turnbull of the Californ...

THE CALIFORNIA MODEL …as seen by the students of Arizona State University

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By: Editorial Board of The State Press - An independent daily serving Arizona State University Thursday, November 19, 2009 – The cost of ...

STUDENTS STORM UCLA BUILDING TO PROTEST FEE HIKE "Education should be a priority for California and not 'sold' off to the highest bidder like LAUSD is doing with charter schools."

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by My-Thuan Tran – LA Times LA Now Blog November 19, 2009 |  7:17 am Updated 8:39 am About 30 students stormed UCLA’s Campbell Hall ...

VETERAN SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS WIN BACK SENIORITY RIGHTS IN L.A. UNIFIED

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by Howard Blume | LA Times Online November 19, 2009 |  8:41 am Veteran substitute teachers in Los Angeles will get more work and a shot ...