NBC Los Angeles recently aired a great report on ways to save the classrooms:
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Posts under ‘Education Reform’
Cost Cutting 101
Today’s LA Times led a piece on the battle over Birmingham High School with the heading, “The outcome of a battle over reform at the Van Nuys campus might shape the future of L.A. Unified.” The mayor’s reform branch (I-Division), a magnet within the school, and a charter supported by some of the teachers are [...]
Mar Vista Moms
Here’s another grassroots campaign that came to my attention. A group of moms in Mar Vista have banded together to create video to promote the changes taking place at Webster Middle School. Mar Vista Moms @ Webster Middle School
What a great way to let people visit a school!
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Cuts Hurt Kids!
Yesterday Cuts Hurt Kids emailed asking for support. Here’s what they said about themselves:
The concept behind CutsHurtKids.org is a simple one: help bring unity among the grassroots resisters to budget cuts.
1. See what’s happening at other schools, and
2. if people know of an action to be added, they can submit links of online info/videos/pictures & [...]
Danger!!!!! (More Tales of LAUSD Waste)
This week we had an inspector come by from the safety branch of LAUSD. He had a grim face, a clipboard, and a scratchy pen he wielded with gusto and relish. He scuttled through classroom after classroom and uncovered MANY examples of clear and present DANGER!!!!
Most notably: couches. Yep. That’s right. Couches. Sofas. Cushy chairs. [...]
Pink Slips Continued
OK, so maybe it’s not the clearest data on Planet Earth, but it’s what arrived in my mailbox today. Basically, it says the union is asking for a 95:5 teacher: administrator ratio.
That would mean 30,057 teachers and 1024.18 administrators in the union’s ideal world.
The latest district proposal is 30,057 teachers: 1582 administrators (rounding so we [...]
Pink Slips
Yesterday was Pink Slip Friday in LAUSD. Friends and colleagues started texting at 6:30 in the morning reminding each other to wear pink, though preferably not pink slips or lingerie of any public sort, to work. It was festive and light-hearted, perhaps because it (and we) were still bleary-eyed about it all.
Then we went to [...]
Uh-oh Arne Duncan!
OK, I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus here, what with winter breaks and winter flus and winter doldrums and winter personal lives (would you believe, teachers have personal lives?!). But I’m making my way through the educational headlines for the last week, and along comes this doozy from Arne Duncan, the Secretary of [...]
Brewer v. Teachers
Here’s what the LA Times said the preliminary cost of buying out Brewer will be:
Because the board terminated Brewer “without cause,” he’s entitled to receive a buyout specified under his contract. The terms under the contract are 18 months’ salary, totaling $450,000, and his expense account over that period, which adds $67,500. He’ll also get [...]
Buy-Bye Brewer III
Less than a week and it’s done. Man overboard! But not the way the LA Times hoped for. Here are the parting words of the Admiral:
Therefore, I have decided to do what I think is in the best interest of the children, to put all of our students first. Although my two years of service [...]
