Thursday, February 24, 2011

LAUSD TO RECOMMEND CLOSING OF CHARTER SCHOOL

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BY hOWARD bLUME -  la tIMES/lA now | http://lat.ms/hoRQhw   Cornerstone Prep Charter 7651 ...

TODAY@ 5PM: Community Briefing on Advisory Recommendation Vote Results for Public School Choice 2.0

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from LAUSD | http://bit.ly/dKBtsO smf: Spoiler Alert! -see the Daily News Article on the process: http://bit.ly/frilPW Parents a...

Call2Action: YOU CAN HELP SAVE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDING: The “LET US VOTE!” Campaign

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email from educate our state – Educate our State are some of  the same wonderful folks who brought us the “ Hot 4 Teachers ” Video. ...

Call2Action from Preschool California: PRESERVE + PROTECT FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, HEAD START AND EARLY HEAD START

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email from Preschool California February 24, 2011 Dear Friend, Today, Feb. 24, is a national call-in day to urge senators to preserve ...

EDITORIAL CARTOON: The La Cañada shakedown +smf’s 2¢

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by Ted Rall/LA Times | http://bit.ly/eT1Tqq smf: At a candidates' debate last light, I took offence at Mayor Tony + The Downtown De...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

“Victims of the Churn”: NEW ED TRUST-WEST REPORT SHOWS THE DAMAGING IMPACT OF TEACHER LAYOFF POLICIES ON CALIFORNIA’S HIGHEST NEEDS SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS

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education trust-west press release | http://bit.ly/ejtiEL For Immediate Release                                                         ...

RACE TO THE BOTTOM?

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Kathy Wylie writes on the Edutopia Facebook page Only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal...

"The petition is materially non-qualifying and …insufficient": COMPTON SCHOOL BOARD REJECTS PARENT TRIGGER EFFORT + more

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A unanimous vote by the Compton school board rejects McKinley Elementary parents' petition seeking to turn the struggling campus over to...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

GIFTED PROGRAMS GO ON BLOCK AS SCHOOLS MUST DO WITH LESS

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By JENNIFER GOLLAN | The Bay Citizen / A version of this article appeared in print on February 20, 2011, in the National edition of the New ...

CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP WITHOUT WIDENING A RACIAL ONE

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By MICHAEL WINERIP - On Education column in the New York Times | http://nyti.ms/hyHpxf February 13, 2011 - ALEXANDRIA, Va. — There is no ...

Become an especially interested Grass Roots Campaigner + Community Organizer: MAKE COPIES AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE – Get Out the Vote for smf …and kids!

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by smf for 4LAKidsNews - not in a self serving way – but in a children-serving way   . . .what a concept! Here's the deal: special i...

SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES DEBATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL: Candidates square off as campaign for District 5 seat enters stretch run.

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By David Fonseca | Eagle Rock Patch | http://bit.ly/eQMgHb smf: The great thing about being a write-in c...

Be there!: SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE DEBATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT 6PM @ FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL

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Philip Iglauer of the Northeast Los Angeles Coalition writes: Hello, Friends and supporters of NELA Coalition: The drop out rate at LA s...

LAUSD SCHOOLS TAKING CHARTER ROUTE: El Camino Real High School the latest to attempt shift.

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By Connie Llanos, Staff Writer , LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/hmg8ee 22 Feb 2011 - On banners posted along Valley Circle Boulevard, El Ca...

TAFT HIGH PARENTS OBJECT TO DISTRICT’S OFFER TO SHARE SPACE WITH CHARTER: A school board member suggests residents file suit to block the move.

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By Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/eOS8Qy At a town hall meeting, parents said they had no desire to share the school's fa...
Monday, February 21, 2011

MORE LAUSD SCHOOLS CONVERT TO CHARTERS AS FUNDS DIP

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By CHRISTINA HOAG, Associated Press from The Miami Herald | http://bit.ly/ijmJiS Sunday, 02.20.11 -- LOS ANGELES -- El Camino Real High Sch...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

SUPER SUPPORT FOR EDUCATION …or after the football, commercials and the Black Eyed Peas let’s solve the problems of Public Education in L.A.

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By Patt DiRoll, Pasadena Star News Social Reporter | http://bit.ly/gaS7y8 Cherna Gitnick, Fulfillment Fund CEO Andrea Cockrum, Los An...

ONCE-MIGHTY UTLA LOSES POLITICAL MUSCLE: In a series of missteps, the teachers union has lost influence in L.A. Unified elections and in negotiations with board members backed by Mayor Villaraigosa.

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By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times February 18, 2011, 9:47 p.m. [Published Feb 20 ]- Critics portray the Los Angeles teachers union as p...

SUNDAY FUNNIES:

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classic peanuts for 2/20/2011 from comics .com | http://bit.ly/fFoMFL
Saturday, February 19, 2011

EX-PRINCIPAL GETS PRISON IN MOLESTATION OF FOUR GIRLS

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by smf for 4LAKidsNEWS 19 February 2011 - Today's LA Times has a story EX-PRINCIPAL GETS PRISON IN MOLESTATION' : A former pr...