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 [...]
More LAUSD Waste and Mismanagement
NBC Los Angeles recently aired a great report on ways to save the classrooms:
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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. [...]
Cracked, Broken, and Mute: How LAUSD Wastes Money
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 [...]
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 [...]
