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.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

DING, DONG; CONCEPT SIX IS DEAD!

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by Hector Villagra . Executive Director, ACLU of Southern California in the huffington Post | http://huff.to/SUcuWd also (8/30) The hap...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Sex scandal, cover-up claims at LAUSD: FORMER SUPERINTENDENT RAMON CORTINES' ACCUSER SPEAKS OUT

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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/Ns9S2C Former LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines, seen above in a file...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

EVERYTHING YOU’VE HEARD ABOUT FAILING SCHOOLS IS WRONG

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Attendance: up. Dropout rates: plummeting. College acceptance: through the roof. My mind-blowing year inside a "low-performing" ...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Value Added Teacher Assessments - MATHEMATICAL INTIMIDATION: DRIVEN BY THE DATA

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from a paper by Dr. John Ewing published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, May 2011 | http://bit.ly/PhyhU8 Thank you to...

POLL SHOWS VOTER UNCERTAINTY OVER ONLINE LEARNING, CAREER TECH

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By Tom Chorneau, SI&A Cabinet Report. | http://bit.ly/QaV08B Thursday, August 23, 2012  ::  New polling released Wednesday portends ...

Teacher Evaluation: FUENTES AGREES TO COMPROMISES ON AB 5: ARE THEY ENOUGH?

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By John Fensterwald . EdSource Today | http://bit.ly/PHmfUH August 24th, 2012 | At the 11th hour, the author of the bill to rewrite the ...
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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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