Sites and Sounding Off
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 [...]
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 & [...]
Yesterday’s LA Times reported the following from our globe-trotting, glad-handing, tv-anchor-bopping mayor (this isn’t TMZ but, btw, who was that cute lady beside him gazing adoringly at him on yesterday’s news reports?):
At Liechty, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa led a forum Monday with teachers and parents, stressing the need for “shared sacrifice” and “creative solutions” to save [...]
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 [...]
The CTA (California Teachers Association) has set up a social network to post your pink slip stories and actions and to get updates: kind of an ideas central. Check it out here.
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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 [...]
