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.

Friday, November 25, 2011

DUNCAN TO CALIFORNIA: NO WAY ON ‘RACE TO THE TOP’ - He gives Brown the big bird …or was it vice versa? + State's latest bid for Race to the Top funds fizzles

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By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess - TOP-Ed writer Kathy Baron co-wrote this post | http://bit.ly/rARXXK Posted on 11/23/11 • In ...

Thankfully: LAUSD DONATING FOOD KIDS WON’T EAT

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By Melissa Pamer Staff Writer |Daily News/Daily Breeze | http://bit.ly/uI0GJo Vanessa Day boxes up leftover lunch items at Gulf Avenue E...

SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE BENNETT KAYSER OCCUPIES LAUSD

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Silver Lake resident Kayser represents Los Angeles Unified School District 5, which includes Silver Lake and much of Echo Park. Opini...

Thursday, November 24, 2011

REFORM PROPOSALS ACCEPTED FOR WILSON AND NEW EAST L.A. HIGH SCHOOL: LAUSD will name middle school in honor of Julian Nava.

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By Gloria Angelina Castillo, EGP Staff Writer Bell Gardens Sun , City Terrace Comet , Commerce Comet , County of Los Angeles , ELA Brooklyn ...

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

A BETTER FARE …or (smf’s 2¢) Taken for a Spin

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by Tamar Galatzan in the Galatzan Gazette, The Online News Source for Tamar Galatzan's Board District 3 in the San Fernando Valley | h...

AB 165 + STUDENT FEE LITIGATION UPDATE

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from EdLawConnect | http://bit.ly/tRcm9p By Mark Bresee , Partner and Cathie Fields , Senior Associate Education Law Practice Group ...

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

“Effective immediately, all of our efforts to privatize the schools will be known as ‘®eform,’ and any opposition to those efforts will be known as ‘anti-®eform’.”

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you can’t say we weren't warned Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow: Using Accountability to "Reform" Public Schools …to Death...

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DUNCAN TO CALIFORNIA: NO WAY ON ‘RACE TO THE TOP’ - He gives Brown the big bird …or was it vice versa? + State's latest bid for Race to the Top funds fizzles

Thankfully: LAUSD DONATING FOOD KIDS WON’T EAT

SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE BENNETT KAYSER OCCUPIES LAUSD

REFORM PROPOSALS ACCEPTED FOR WILSON AND NEW EAST L.A. HIGH SCHOOL: LAUSD will name middle school in honor of Julian Nava.

A BETTER FARE …or (smf’s 2¢) Taken for a Spin

AB 165 + STUDENT FEE LITIGATION UPDATE

HOW ONLINE LEARNING COMPANIES BOUGHT AMERICA’S SCHOOLS

U P D A T E D: PSC v.3.0: “AND THE APPLICANTS ARE”

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Student Journalism – VIEWPOINT: HOW SAFE IS OUR SCHOOL?

“Effective immediately, all of our efforts to privatize the schools will be known as ‘®eform,’ and any opposition to those efforts will be known as ‘anti-®eform’.”