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.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Doug McIntyre: LAUSD MUST HEAL BREACH OF TRUST WITH THE PUBLIC

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by Doug McIntyre, columnist | LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/zlRdsD 1/28/2012 05:20:26 PM PST   ::  John Deasy is no pushover. Neither are...

®EFORM, INC. + CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION RALLY PLANNED: Parents to be bused in as the unusual suspects strike back!

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California Charter Schools Association Press Release Thousands of LA Parents Will Rally for “Schools We Can Believe In” on Feb. 4: Parents...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Esther Duflo: GOOD THINKING INSIDE THE BOX

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by smf for 4LAKidsNews Sunday Jan 29 :: There is a radio programme on the BBC World Service called The Forum where intellectuals publicly...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Diane Ravitch Speaks Out: "NCLB HAS BEEN A DISASTER, AND THE WAIVERS ARE A POISON PILL"

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E dBrief Interview |http://www.educationmediagroup.com   [as of this posting the EdBrief website is down – this version was sent to 4LAKi...

Underwhelmed: SCRATCHING THE SURFACE OF OBAMA’S EDUCATION RHETORIC + two updates

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Dana Goldstein | The Nation blogs/Education, health, women's issues and politics | http://bit.ly/zcp29B January 25, 2012 - 12:14am ...

Labels: “®EFORMERS” or “POST REFORMERS” or “POST-POST-REFORMERS”

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from notyet LAUSD | http://bit.ly/w0SE8x Saturday, January 21, 2012 :: Reformers® love their label but people with other views seem to nee...

USING TEST SCORES TO EVALUATE TEACHERS IS BASED ON THE WRONG VALUES

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By Carol Corbett Burris | New York Times Schoolbook Blog | http://nyti.ms/Ag2SXh Jan. 25, 2012, 12:17 p.m. :: I should be a cheerleader f...

Kindergarten? Transitional class? More preschool? SHIFTING STATE LAW AND BUDGET HAS PARENTS CONFUSED

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By Sharon Noguchi | Silicon Valley Mercury News | http://bit.ly/w034IE 1/26/2012 10:36:35 PM PST  ::  For decades, California pare...
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More from Town Hall: LAUSD SUPERINTENDENT ASKS FOR TAX INCREASE TO HELP PAY FOR FULL SCHOOL YEAR + smf’s 2¢

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Reporting Dave Bryan | CBS Los Angeles | http://cbsloc.al/wKTJPq January 25, 2012 11:06 PM | LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Wednesday night was ...

Briefly: SCHOOL LUNCH

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selected by 4LAKIDS from various newsreaders School lunch gets a makeover Los Angeles Times - ‎Jan 25, 2012‎ Those guidelines al...

PLAN WOULD CLOSE HALF OF L.A. UNIFIED’S REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS

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by Howard Blume / LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/wrrMLg January 24, 2012 |  6:24 pm :: Officials with the Los Angeles Unified School Dist...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

TWO L.A. UNIFIED SCHOOLS WIN $100,000 GRANTS FROM TARGET

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-- Rick Rojas | la tIMES/la nOW | http://lat.ms/yDWdEK January 25, 2012 |  7:42 pm  ::  Two Los Angeles Unif-ed schools, nominated by view...

CALIFORNIA’S WHITE ELEPHANT BUDGET GIVES SCHOOLS THE GIFT OF UNCERTAINTY

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by Beth Chagonjian‚ Beyond Chron/School Beat | http://bit.ly/zBXhIq Jan. 26‚ 2012 :: Governor Brown's budget was recently (and inadver...

Doe v. CA: LAWSUIT TO BAN PUBLIC SCHOOL FEES CLEARS KEY HURDLE

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BY Howard Blume, LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/A9fFxE January 26, 2012 |  1:51 pm :: State officials failed Thursday to get a judge to...

BOYS PULL OUT KNIFE, GUN IN 7th GRADE GLASS AT MAYOR’S SCHOOL

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Robert J. Lopez | LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/zgLJDu January 26, 2012 |  4:05 pm :: Security was beefed up at Samuel Gompers Middle Sc...

EDUCATION TOWN HALL: Community fumes over schools

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By Susan Abram, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/ABOwX9 LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy and board member Tamar Galatzan answe...
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Scott Folsom is a parent and parent leader in LAUSD. He is the former President of Los Angeles 10th District PTSA and represents PTA as Vice-chair the LAUSD Construction Bond Citizen's Oversight Committee. Scott is a member of the California State PTA Board on Managers. He serves on various school district advisory and policy committees and is or has been a PTA officer and/or governance council member at three LAUSD schools. He is an elected neighborhood councilmember of the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council in Northeast LA, representing Mount Washington. www.asnc.us • In this forum his opinions are his own and your opinions and feedback are invited. • Quoted and/or cited content copyright © the original author and/or publisher. All other material copyright © 4LAKids. • To SUBSCRIBE to the weekly 4LAKids e-mail newsletter e-mail: 4LAKids-subscribe@topica.email-publisher.com - or -TO ADD YOUR OR ANOTHER'S NAME TO THE 4LAKids SUBCRIPTION LIST E-MAIL smfolsom@aol.com with "SUBSCRIBE" AS THE SUBJECT. Thank you.
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