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.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Discipline in a box?: TEACHER PLACED ON LEAVE IN FLAP OVER AUTISTIC BOY’S TREATMENT

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The student tells his mother that he was ordered to sit in a cardboard box during class. The principal tells investigators that the boy v...

CHILD ABUSE EXPERT CALLS ON LAUSD TO TEACH HOW TO SPOT PEDOPHILE BEHAVIOR

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KNX 10.70 Radio: Reporting Ed Mertz | http://cbsloc.al/y2U3Q4   (credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) February 27, 2012 11:45 AM L...

LA UNIFIED TO CONSIDER NEW POLICY CHANGES IN RESPONSE TO MIRAMONTE AND OTHER MOSCONDUCT CASES + smf’s 2¢

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By Tami Abdollah , KPCC Pass/Fail | http://bit.ly/zwIs32   Grant Slater/KPCC - Parents of students at Miramonte Elementary School escort...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

PROBABLY NOT THE LAST LAUSD REDISTRICTING MAP!

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by email from the LA City LAUSD Redistricting Commission office 200 N Spring St. Room 285 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Mon, Feb 27, 2012 2:11...

TEACHERS NEED TRAINING TO SPOT CAMPUS MOLESTERS

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WIRE REPORT By the Associated Press | http://bit.ly/zw89zl 2/27/2012 01:01:27 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Many school teachers across the ...
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PARENT TRIGGER LAW MEETS NEW TESTS IN ADELANTO

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The Adelanto school board rejects parents' petition for change, saying signatures to overhaul Desert Trails Elementary were rescinded. N...

KEEPING KIDS FROM DROPPING OUT

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BY DAVID OLSON STAFF WRITER , PREE ENTERPRISE (Inland Empire) http://bit.ly/AfaFnz STAN LIM/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER - Students walk to class ...

SOME CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS GET TWICE THE FUNDING -- AND MORE -- OF OTHERS

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By Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News | http://bit.ly/zUPvlQ A third-grade music class at Woodside Elementary, part of one of the...

SCHOOLS PREP FOR LAYOFFS

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By Heather Murtagh, San Mateo  Daily Journal Staff | http://bit.ly/wr7jgo February 27, 2012, 05:00 AM  ::   Teachers could soon be getting...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

SCHOOL DISTRICTS ALL OVER THE MAP ON MARIJUANA POSSESSION DISCIPLINE POLICY

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By Gina Potthoff/Staff Writer, Lompoc Record | http://bit.ly/yBjVtf Sunday, February 26, 2012 12:15 am | Whether a student is expelled fo...

OBAMA’s EDUCATION SECRETARY DOMINATES NBA ALL-STAR CELEBRITY GAME

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by Anthony York , LA Times | http://lat.ms/x3KIiG Photo: United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan dribbles the ball during the N...

Steve Lopez: L.A. CATCHING UP TO CHICAGO IN SLEAZE

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A University of Illinois study finds that we're the second most corrupt region in the U.S., due to an oversized helping of election c...

LAUSD’s MRS. SHORT RETIRES AFTER 57 YEARS

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By Barbara Jones Staff Writer, LA  Daily News | http://bit.ly/z3PKk9 Marylin Short shows the 1962 Valley News clipping of a story about he...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

DRAFT LAUSD MAP CREATES 3RD MAJORITY LATINO DISTRICT

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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer LA dAILY NEWS | http://bit.ly/xOGRuc   This is the basic map that was approved Feb. 23, 2012 by the LAUS...

MUNGER-PTA INITIATIVE HITS THE STREETS: $10B for K-12, early childhood by raising income tax

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By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess | http://bit.ly/yeVcEa Posted on 2/24/12 • Unfazed by disparagement from Gov. Brown’s politicos, civ...

NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS RELEASE (less than 25% of two-year-old) 'VALUE ADDED' TEACHER RANKINGS + THE NEW YORK EVALUATION DEAL “FINALLY RESOLVED”. Really?

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NEW YORK SCHOOLS RELEASE 'VALUE ADDED' TEACHER RANKINGS: The action follows a battle, similar to one in Los Angeles, that pitted the...

DISTRICT ATTORNEY HAD CHANCE TO NAB FUGITIVE TEACHER ACCUSED OF SEX CRIMES

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by Alan Zarembo and Richard Winton | LA Times/LA NOW | http://lat.ms/xERoWI February 25, 2012 |  7:56 am  ::  New questions have emerged o...
Friday, February 24, 2012

ADULT ED GETS REPRIEVE: LAUSD Takes Up Vote Again March 13

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  By Zamná Ávila, Assistant Editor, Random Lengths News (San Pedro) http://bit.ly/zDtk1k Thursday, 23 February 2012   ::  While Presiden...
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