Thursday, June 20, 2013

FIRST DETAIL OF THE iPad DEAL FROM LAUSD & APPLE + smf’s 2¢ U P D A T E D

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smf: as a member of the LAUSD Bond Oversight Committee – School Construction and Modernization bonds are controversially the e...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

ED. SECT. DUNCAN LETS STATES DELAY USE OF TESTS IN DECISIONS ABOUT TEACHER’S JOBS

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By MOTOKO RICH, New York Times | http://nyti.ms/10zmkUq June 18, 2013   ::  Acknowledging that the nation’s educators face large challenge...

The Deasy iBooks/iPad Video: THE CLIP AND THE WHOLE SHEBANG

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from January 2012 In fairness, he above clip is out of context – but shows the Deasy segment in its entirely. For the entire context of ...

THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING OF JUNE 18th – or how I spent Paul McCartney’s birthday (+ additional coverage)

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By smf for 4LAKids NewsJuneteenth, June 19, 2013  ::  Yesterday’s (seems so very far away) school board meeting started late - 25 minutes...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

NCTQ: NEW TEACHER TRAINING STUDY DECRIES CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITIES + smf’s 2¢

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A controversial policy group singles out teacher training programs at UCLA and Loyola Marymount as hardly worth attending. But the schools s...

LA Times Edito®ial: TOUGH CHOICES AT LAUSD + smf’s 2¢

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Proposals to restore staffing to pre-recession levels and cutting class sizes don't make sense. What's workable is extending the ...

PREVIEW OF TUESDAY’S LAUSD BOARD MEETING: Controversy, Budget, P-Rev, Charters and iPads …w/footnotes +smf’’s 2¢

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  Controversy Awaits $30 Million iPad Vote by Hillel Aron - LA School Report http://bit.ly/16cTfwz Posted on June 17, 2013    :: The S...
Monday, June 17, 2013

NEW LAUSD BOARD MEMBER MONICA RATLIFF SEEKS END TO ‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’

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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Daily News | http://bit.ly/17iez8E Teacher Monica Ratliff is the newest member of the LAUSD ...

AS POVERTY INCREASES, ®EFORMERS CLING TO THE “NEW STATUS QUO”

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By Tim Walker, NEA Today | http://bit.ly/1bOgq1E June 17, 2013  ::  A couple of weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Education released new d...

Local Control Funding Formula: SCHOOLS WITH FEWER NEEDY STUDENTS DECRY CALIFORNIA FUNDING CHANGE + smf’s 2¢

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California's new funding formula gives more money to districts with more needy students and less to districts with fewer needy studen...

FIGHTING FOR OUR CLASSROOMS, AND FOR THE HUMAN BEINGS INSDE THEM

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  By Richard Eskow , Campaign for America's Future | Op-Ed,  http://bit.ly/126Ad6p Sunday, 16 June 2013 10:17  ::  It seems as if t...

EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW, I LEARNED IN MUSIC CLASS

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As the Toronto District School Board votes on major cuts to music education, the Star reconnects three successful musicians to their inst...