LAUSD claims the local districts are being streamlined and administrative positions are being cut. ’Claims’ is the operative word. Like so much with the district, it’s all smoke and mirrors.
About a month ago, a source told me that while local district ‘Directors’ are being cut, new positions called ‘Principal Leaders’ were being created at slightly [...]
Posts under ‘Education Reform’
Budget Cuts? Not for LAUSD Administrators!
Work for LAUSD! Make $590/hr!
4LAKids found a juicy tidbit in the latest newsletter of the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles:
LAUSD has hired two part-time lawyers at exorbitant rates when they already have 37 full-time attorneys on staff. Here’s the blurb from the AALA paper:
$250,000 for six months of work and $312,700 for 13.5 weeks of work. Hmm. And district [...]
20% of LAUSD Funds Go to the Bureaucracy
That means $2,161.29 per pupil! Really, isn’t that a bit much?
Share on Facebook
Ugh!
Tidbits from the last three weeks:
Half of all art & music positions will be eliminated next year, and the remaining ones will be cut the year after. In 2012, there will be no art, music, dance, or theater teachers in LAUSD.
A teacher who went down to file paperwork at Beaudry (the district-owned skyscraper downtown) told [...]
Literacy in the 21st Century
Tonight I was over on Tom Vander Ark’s blog. TVA, you might remember, was formerly of Bill Gates’ ed foundation and one of the short-listed candidates in the last LAUSD Superintendent search–the one that yielded. . . da-da-da-dah. . . Admiral Brewer. He’s posted a bit from Fareed Zakaria’s interview of Eric Schmidt, the CEO [...]
Resegregation: What I Worry About
Anthony Cody, a National Board-certified teacher in the Bay Area, has launched a project to get teachers to write to President Obama. He’s planning on gathering the letters and mailing them to the White House on November 23rd. Here’s mine:
Dear President Obama,
I’m not a worrywart by nature. I teach 5th grade in a high-poverty school [...]
Ever More Bureaucrats
This week teachers learned the district is thinking of:
1. cutting days out of the school year
2. increasing class sizes in January
3. cutting the number of teachers again.
And then the following landed in my inbox:
Position/Title: Director of Operations
Organization: The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Organization Description: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has made education reform of [...]
Teacher Misconduct?
A few weeks ago the LA Times did an expose on a teachers being kept out of the classroom at full pay because of misconduct or allegations of misconduct. Here’s a new movie coming out on the NY equivalent. While the cases in the LA Times story seemed to show misconduct, there is also the [...]
Health Care & Education, Part 2
According to the NYTimes, Obama’s been reading the same NYer article I wrote about last week:
President Obama recently summoned aides to the Oval Office to discuss a magazine article investigating why the border town of McAllen, Tex., was the country’s most expensive place for health care. The article became required reading in the White House, [...]
Health Care v. Education, Part 1
This week’s New Yorker has a great piece on health care costs. Want to know where the US Gov. spends the MOST money per capita on healthcare?
That would be McAllen, TX in the Rio Grande Valley. Lat year Medicare spent $15,000 per enrollee there, 2x the national average.
Where the heck did all that money go [...]
