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By Duke Helfand and Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers 3:12 PM PST, February 26, 2008 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, moving to improve struggling campuses that are taking part in his high-profile and high-stakes school reform effort, has tapped a veteran San Diego educator to take charge of instruction at those schools. Angela Bass, a top administrator in […] Read More >>![]("global_images/main/dash.gif") By CLAUDIA WALLIS of Time Magazine We never forget our best teachers - those who imbued us with a deeper understanding or an enduring passion, the ones we come back to visit years after graduating, the educators who opened doors and altered the course of our lives. I was lucky enough to encounter two such […] Read More >>
The Long Beach school board voted to close an elementary school this week. The Rialto Unified School District, in what is believed to be the first such action in the state this year, sent notices to 305 employees including teachers, informing them that they may not have a job next fall. The San Francisco school […] Read More >>
How Superintendent David Brewer Ran Aground The admiral’s sinking ship By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 10:00 am After five months of political battles with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his allies in Sacramento, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent David L. Brewer III needed to find his focus. The retired Navy vice admiral was […] Read More >>STATE OWES SCHOOLS, SUIT SAYS: Districts join advocates in seeking $1 billion for mandated programs By Judy Lin - Sacramento Bee Wednesday, November 21, 2007 — Education advocates are expected to file suit today against the state of California for shortchanging school districts $1 billion – a move they say has left districts feeling used like “credit […] Read More >>JUST WHAT L.A.’S DIZZY SCHOOL DISTRICT NEEDS — QUALITY SPIN! by Sandy Banks - LA Times Columnist December 1, 2007 — It’s too bad Los Angeles Unified School District officials didn’t make the first assignment for their new spin doctors spinning the news that they’ve hired spin doctors. The district’s fledgling public relations effort stumbled this week, when […] Read More >>
By Howard Blume-LAT Staff Writer The California Department of Education has alerted 99 school districts, including Los Angeles Unified, that they are in danger of being abolished, taken over or stripped of administrators and schools under their jurisdiction. But whether these and other harsh measures will come to pass is questionable at best. Other districts that were […] Read More >>
NYT Columnist Bob Herbet I asked a high school kid walking along Commonwealth Avenue if he knew who the vice president of the United States was. He thought for a moment and then said, “No.” I told him to take a guess. He thought for another moment, looked at me skeptically, and finally gave up. “I’m sorry,” he said. […] Read More >>
On Education- New York Times By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN Several weeks into his first year of teaching math at the High School of Arts and Technology in Manhattan, Austin Lampros received a copy of the school’s grading policy. He took particular note of the stipulation that a student who attended class even once during a semester, who […] Read More >>
By SAM DILLON-New York Times LOS ANGELES — Steve Barr, a major organizer of charter schools, has been waging what often seems like a guerrilla war for control of this city’s chronically failing high schools. In just seven years, Mr. Barr’s Green Dot Public Schools organization has founded 10 charter high schools and has won approval to […] Read More >> |
