Friday, December 20, 2013

IT’S TIME TO INVESTIGATE PEARSON IN TEXAS, TOO …but why stop there? California’s nice this time of year!

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In New York the Pearson Foundation  illegally helped develop products for its corporate parent, including course materials and software. ...

LAUSD’S LABOR PARTNERS UNIFY TO REMEMBER MS. LAMOTTE AND CALL FOR PROMISES MADE TO BE PROMISES KEPT

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reprinted from the AALA Weekly Update of  December 19,2013 | http://bit.ly/1gKyvVs Visualize the meeting of the Board of Education on Dece...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

RELEASE OF NAEP 2013 READING AND MATH DATA FOR LAUSD

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tweeted and posted online by Howard Blume of the Los Angeles Times | http://t.co/CGjWcS36UW @howardblume: Here's a near final draft of...

CalPERS MOVES TO EXCLUDE PRIVATELY RUN CHARTER SCHOOLS

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by Tom Chorneau - SI&A Cabinet Report   | http://bit.ly/JHOzJ2 December 19, 2013( Calif.)  ::  New eligibility requirements for partic...

1st Look/Taking Initiative: THE PROTECTION OF LOCAL SCHOOL REVENUES ACT OF 2014

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via email from Educate our State and from their website | http://bit.ly/IYaNGG 19 December 2013  ::  According to Educate Our State : Ove...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

®hee-Form 2014: “BAD TEACHERS” THE TARGET OF TWO PROPOSED BALLOT INITIATIVES FOR 2014

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California measure would replace seniority with performance for teacher layoffs By Laurel Rosenhall...

STATE SCHOOLS CHIEF TOM TORLAKSON FAVORS ‘STRONG ACCOUNTABILITY’ ON SCHOOL FUNDING

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by Tom Chorneau, SI&A Cabinet Report :: http://bit.ly/19StvGs December 18, 2013 (Calif.)  ::  As Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration con...

UCSF CHANCELLOR RESIGNS TO HEAD GATES FOUNDATION

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Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor of UC San Francisco since 2009, is leaving to become chief executive of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foun...

The 1st of 3-to-3-ties?: LAUSD BOARD DELAYS ACTION ON FILLING BOARD SEAT, iPAD NEXT PHASE

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L.A. Unified board delays decision on replacing LaMotte Board members are unable to reach a consen...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

A SECOND LOOK AT THE iPADS IN LOS ANGELES

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Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice  | http://bit.ly/18y2pt5 December 6, 2013 · 1:00 am  ::  The rollout of iPads in Los A...

UPDATE: SUPERINTENDENT REJECTS APPLICANTS TO REPLACE AQUINO; LAUSD Re-posts Job Posting

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by smf December 17th, 2013  ::  After review of applications for the job of Deputy Superintendent of Instruction posted last September non...
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GIVING TWICE-AS-MANY KIDS HALF-AS-MUCH MUSIC EDUCATION? The latest LAUSD SNAFU?

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Eloise Porter , President, Los Angeles City Elementary Schools Music Assoc writes 4LAKids Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:14 PM So it seems the...

CHARTERS GET KIDS CUBICLE-READY

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Samantha Winslow | LaborNotes | http://bit.ly/19au9ok A Rocketship charter: Is it a school or a miniature call center? While experime...

Moody's: CHARTER SCHOOLS POSE GREATEST CREDIT CHALLENGE TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN ECONOMICALLY WEAK URBAN AREAS

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Global Credit Research by Moody’s Investor Service | http://bit.ly/1fB4zbf New York,October 15, 2013 -- The dramatic rise in charter schoo...

HOW TO START A REVOLUTION: Diane Ravitch and the Angry Rebellion against Common Core

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Wielding her influential blog as a weapon, this 75-year-old activist has created a powerful network united by revulsion against top-down,...