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 [...]
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 [...]
Where Your Taxes Go (War v. Education 2)
Is this where you want them to go?
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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 [...]
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 [...]
