Last week Michelle Rhee created new proposals regarding teaching, tenure, and pay to shake up her moribund school district (latest Washington Post update here). NY teachers have also been getting on the newthink bandwagon led by Randi Weingarten who is both the president of the NY Local of the American Federation of Teachers and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘LAUSD’
Thank God We’re Not Washington, D.C.
I just discovered an amazing, horrific series done last year by The Washington Post investigating D.C.’s school district. Bureaucratic red tape, mismanagement, fraud, outright thievery! Granted, educating in D.C. is tougher than in LA because the US Congress, not any particular state, controls funding for the District, and so they get buffeted by all sorts [...]
LAUSD Mismanagement
Everything Will Be Forgotten
Does anyone remember this time last year when KCAL/KCBS was running an expose on millions of dollars being mispent by administrators using their school credit cards? Ring a bell in the dusty reaches of memory? Here’s the video version to jog your brain:
LAUSD Credit Card Scandal: October, 2007
I wonder what ever happened [...]
