“A plan for ensuring best and fair practices for charter operators, including results that indicate positive impacts on the achievement gap, inclusion of all students, fair labor practices, and parent engagement practices.” -Steve Zimmer, 11/13/12 Betsy Devos, Eli Broad, and Michael Bloomberg have spent millions of dollars pushing to privatize our public schools with disastrous […]
Click here for reuse options!By Elena de la Cuevas UPDATED 5-13-17 TO ADD California Department of Education denial of Duarte Unified’s Waiver #35-12-2016 (scroll to bottom of the post to view pdf file) The expansion of the Orange County School of the Arts (OSCA) to a sister site in the San Gabriel Valley has led to an complicated mix […]
Click here for reuse options!“No question about @MagnoliaSchools academic superiority – questioning your reading skills.” -Alex Johnson, VP LA County Board of Education “Specifically, the CAASPP results in ELA and Math indicate that in both 2014-15 and 2015-16, 0% of the school’s English Learner (EL) population met or exceeded proficiency.” – LA County Office of Education Staff As the […]
Click here for reuse options!As a special education and parent advocate who has run twice in LAUSD elections under the rallying cry of “Change The LAUSD”, my first inclination is to recommend against a vote for the incumbent in the District 4 Board race. However, as the election of Trump has shown, voting with a “throw the bums out” […]
Click here for reuse options!Parents, teachers, and students rallied outside Grand View Elementary School in Mar Vista on Thursday to demand LA School Board Candidate Nick Melvoin follow his opponent Steve Zimmer’s lead. Zimmer, the President of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board, does not take any money from billionaire charter school proponents seeking to influence the school board race […]
Click here for reuse options!reposted with permission from Caroline Grannan A new online startup here in San Francisco is spreading misinformation about how our district’s school assignment works. So I’m posting a myths-vs.-facts commentary to help combat the misinformation. Feel free to share this if you like. I’m not defending the current system, because it’s stressful and problematic, but […]
Click here for reuse options!by Cheryl Ortega UTLA Director of Bilingual Education I became acquainted with Mr. Marshall Tuck in 2008, the first year of the rollout out of PLAS. As Director of Bilingual Education for UTLA, I had received a call from some teachers at Ritter Elementary School in Watts concerned that their Dual Language Program would […]
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