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 [...]
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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?
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Hot!!!!!
Another brilliant idea from the LAUSD bureaucrats downtown. Three years ago they spent hundreds of millions of dollars installing classroom ac units with thermostats programmable only downtown (remember all those bond measures you’re still paying for?). This summer we’ve returned to our classrooms to find that they’ve reprogrammed the thermostats so that the ac units [...]
LAUSD’s Inner Nazi
This last week two incidents highlighted the district and its administrators’ disregard of freedom of speech.
First, 15 8th graders at Liechty Middle School were denied their diplomas when they turned their backs on their graduation keynote speaker, LAUSD Board President Monica Garcia. They were protesting increased class size and teacher layoffs. As they demonstrate in [...]
The Keeper of the Testing Papers (LAUSD Waste, cont’d.)
Teachers are cut. Class sizes go up. Summer school goes away.
But somewhere, perhaps on a campus near you, sits a person paid to watch tests. I’m not sure which tests: CELDTS go to Sacramento, as do CSTs (I think). Maybe it’s the forms and affidavits teachers sign before administering the tests? [...]
Funny Things About Federal Funds
In today’s LA Times Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, and Steve Zimmer, board member-elect of the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education, called on teachers to take a pay cut to save the district $45 million.
In response I offer the following federal stimulus and bailout headlines:
Stimulus [...]
More LAUSD Waste and Mismanagement
NBC Los Angeles recently aired a great report on ways to save the classrooms:
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