Wednesday, July 28, 2010

CALIFORNIA AWARDED FEDERAL CHARTER SCHOOLS GRANT

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Release: #10-83 July 26, 2010 Contact: Tina Jung E-mail: communications@cde.ca.gov Phone: 916-319-0818 State Schools Ch...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Q&A@HS#9

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by smf for 4LAKidsNews Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - Yestereve, at Central Los Angeles High School #9, otherwise known as The High School for t...

OFFICIAL CHALLENGED AT FORUM OVER PRINCIPAL’S REMOVAL FROM DOWNTOWN L.A. ARTS SCHOOL

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by Howard Blume | LA Times LA Now July 27, 2010 |  1:14 pm -- The sudden removal this month of the principal who headed the downtown ...

Administrators’ Union asks: WHY WAS THE PRINCIPAL AT ARTS HIGH SCHOOL TRANSFERRED? …AND REQUESTS HER RETURN

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FROM ASSOCIATED ADMINISTRATORS OF LOS ANGELES WEEKLY UPDATE Week of July 26, 2010 When District senior staff decides a principal should ...

Q&A w/Steve Zimmer: WHY PUBLIC SCHOOLS NEED A BAILOUT

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by Liz Dwyer from Good Magazine/Blog July 20, 2010 at 6:30 am PDT  -- Veteran teacher, counselor, advocate, and community activist St...

FAMILIES’ HOPES ARE DASHED AS NEW BEVERLY HILLS UNIFIED POLICY OUSTS NONRESIDENT CHILDREN FROM DISTRICT SCHOOLS: Removal of students who live outside the city can be appealed to the L.A. County Board of Education, but more than half the requests have been denied.

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Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times July 25, 2010 -- To Cheryl and Joshua Winiarz, the Los Angeles County Board of Education represented thei...

STUDENTS PROTEST ARTS SCHOOL PRINCIPAL OUSTER - Now with photographs!

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Los Angeles Downtown News photos...

LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS WIN APPEAL ON CHARTER SCHOOLS

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Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - A state appeals court strengthened the authority of local schoo...

COURT OF APPEALS REVERSES TRIAL COURT, SENDS CASE BACK TO COURT IN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION v. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (ASPIRE CHARTER SCHOOLS CASE)

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from Leagle.com | Associate Justice Maria P. Rivera writing the opinion Edited   | [entire opinion] Filed July 26, 2010. Certified for P...
Monday, July 26, 2010

CORTINES PICKS “EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATOR” TO HEAD LOCAL DISTRICT 8

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MY TURN by Diana L. Chapman | CityWatch | Vol 8 Issue 58 July 23, 2010 -- Caught by surprise that he was about to be promoted as the south...

Study: EFFECTIVE PRINCIPALS EMBRACE COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP

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By Christina A. Samuels - Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org | Vol. 29, Issue 37 July 23, 2010 -- An expansive study devot...

Audit: SLOPPY BOOKKEEPING COST LAUSD SCHOOLS $10M

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by The Associated Press on KNX1070.com smf notes: As a classically educated scholar and a member of the Hollywood High School Latin Cl...

THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS ARE WRITTEN ON THE SUBWAY WALLS: Feedback to 4LAKids about the replacement of the Principal @ HS#9, The High School for the Visual and Performing Arts.

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A Beaudry Insider writes: "Cortines talks about transparency.... I guess we got it here.  It is transparent that the powers don...

NYT: OAKLAND SCHOOLS STRUGGLE, BUT EMERYVILLE MAY POINT A WAY UP

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By GERRY SHIH | New York Times July 22, 2010 - In his five-year plan to turn around the lowest-performing schools in the Oakland Unified S...

Schools Stacking the Deck? SHORTER SCHOOL YEAR ADDS TO CONCERN

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:42 PM PDT on Sunday, July 25, 2010 By LOUIS FREEDBERG | California Watch in the Riverside Press-Enterprise Interactive: Calif...

$71 MILLION STIMULUS DELAY STUNS EDUCATION ADVOCATES

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by Corey G. Johnson | California WatchBlog July 26, 2010 | Education advocates of all stripes shook their heads in disbelief Friday at the...

LAUSD LOST ALMOST $10 MILLION IN INEFFICIENT INVENTORY SYSTEM, AUDIT FINDS: The report says thousands of textbooks are not bar-coded or returned by students and poor communication between schools has led to unnecessary purchases.

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By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times July 25, 2010 | An audit of textbooks at 21 local high schools has found that lost books and excessive ...

IN FINAL MONTHS, LAUSD CHIEF RAMON CORTINES INTENT ON ACHIEVING GOALS

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By Connie Llanos, Staff Writer LAUSD Superintendant Ramon Cortines chats with a fourth grader at Gulf Elementary School in Wilmington duri...