In This Issue:  | | • | PARENTS AT SAN FERNANDO MIDDLE SCHOOL SPLIT ON SCHOOL CHOICE PLAN | | | • | STIMULUS SAVED 6,000 Ed JOBS IN L.A., REPORT SAYS; WHIITE HOUSE SAYS CLASS SIZE EXPANSION AVERTED. smf: It was? | | | • | Student Recovery Day: LA UNIFIED TAKES ANTI-TRUANCY EFFORTS DOOR-TO-DOOR | | | • | HIGHLIGHTS, LOWLIGHTS & THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT: The Rest of the Stories from Other Sources | | | • | EVENTS: Coming up next week... | | | • | What can YOU do? | |
Featured Links: | | | | ►PREGNANT WOMEN REPRESENT 6% OF CONFIRMED 2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA DEATHS IN THE UNITED STATES, WHILE ONLY ABOUT 1% OF THE GENERAL POPULATION IS PREGNANT.
If you haven’t already, read the LA Times article and/or the letter to doctors from the AMA, the CDC , the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists about the danger of H1H1 to pregnant women.
• http://xml.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-flu-pregnancy23-2009oct23,0,409451.story
• http://www.ama-assn.org/assets/h1n1/mm/pregnant-colleague-letter.pdf
We need to get out there, get real and out in front of this epidemic – and the first thing is to get out the word to pregnant women and girls. This is NOT THE TIME to be over careful or vaccination adverse!
This flu epidemic is real; the danger to pregnant women is huge. The danger isn’t of getting the flu and feeling bad for a few days; the danger is of serious illness, complications and death. What doctors call Morbidity and Mortality.
To be brutally honest about this: If you die of H1N1 because of a phobia, mistaken inoculation adversity or misplaced mission to protect your unborn child - or subscribe to the disproven myth that inoculations cause autism - your unborn child will die also.
One thing our school district produces bumper crops of is pregnant teens. Pregnancy – not failing the CAHSEE or low test scores or adolescent ennui – is the leading cause of dropping out of school. I am asking the Superintendent, the Board of Ed and the Office of Student Health and Human Services to get the known pregnant population vaccinated THIS WEEK – and the word out and the vaccine available all adolescent girls ASAP.
The flu shots are safe and they work. They are becoming available – and if you are a pregnant they are available NOW. [see following]
¡Onward relentlessly/ Adelante Implacablemente! - smf
►AN EMAIL FROM THE MAYOR:
[Politicians have an endearing way of taking credit for the good hard work of others. This is a nationwide effort and the mayor correctly says ‘helped’ open the clinic – which is actually operated by the County …but this is a man who would show up for the photo op at the opening of a garage door!]
Friday, 23 Oct 2009 4:15 PM
Friends--
As part of an unprecedented nation-wide effort to get H1N1 vaccinations to all those who need it, we're making FREE vaccinations available across Los Angeles. Today I helped open the first free clinic, in the San Fernando Valley, and seven others will be operating throughout the city this weekend (October 24 thru October 25).
We’re all in it together this flu season, and by encouraging priority groups to receive the vaccination as soon as possible, we'll minimize the impact of H1N1 on our communities.
Priority groups for the H1N1 vaccine are:
• Pregnant women
• People living with or caring for infants under six months of age
• Emergency medical services personnel and health care workers
• People living with or caring for infants under six months of age
• People aged 25 through 64 years with chronic medical conditions like heart or lung disease, asthma, diabetes or weakened immune systems.
Find the locations and schedules of the free vaccination clinics here:
http://www.mayor.lacity.org/MeettheMayor/TheBlog/index.htm#h1n1
Thank you,
Antonio Villaraiogsa (sic)
This message was sent to smfolsom@aol.com by:
Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa
200 North Spring Street, Room 303
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213/978-0600
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Here's the full list of free clinics in the city of Los Angeles OPEN THIS WEEKEND operated by the County, please check http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/
for locations outside the City of LA or call 2-1-1 or 3-1-1 to confirm a date
• Balboa Sports Complex - 17015 Burbank Boulevard, Encino 91316
• Chevy Chase Recreation Center - 4165 Chevy Chase Drive, Los Angeles 90039
• Granada Hills Recreation Center - 16730 Chatsworth Street, Granada Hills 91344
• Jackie Tatum/Harvard Recreation Center - 1535 W 62nd Street, Los Angeles 90047
• Lincoln Park Recreation Center - 3501 Valley Boulevard, Los Angeles 90031
• Oakwood Recreation Center - 767 California Avenue, Venice 90291
• Wilmington Recreation Center - 325 Neptune Avenue, Wilmington 90744
• Woodland Hills Recreation Center - 5858 Shoup Avenue, Woodland Hills 91367
•• MOST OPERATE 9am-5pm
More dates and locations will be coming in November and December. New schedules are released every two weeks at http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/.
For more information on H1N1 and how to prevent it and for a list of private providers with vaccine, visit http://www.flushotla.com or http://www.findaflushot.com
PARENTS AT SAN FERNANDO MIDDLE SCHOOL SPLIT ON SCHOOL CHOICE PLAN
Written by Alex Garcia, Dan Fernando Valley Sun Contributing Writer
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 -- The ongoing meetings about the future of San Fernando Middle School [SFMS] under the School Choice Plan, which could mean converting the school and dozens of other campuses into independently run pilot or charter schools, continued this week, with parents divided on the idea. About 50 parents showed at the school for the meeting held Tuesday night.
"I'd like for it [SFMS] to become a charter," said Veronica Rodriguez, whose son Daniel and daughter Denisse Cuellar attend the school.
She said she favors this because that would mean changing many of the teachers, whom she said are not doing a good job, and would bring improvements to the school.
But Catalina Martinez and Maria Elena Lemus are against the school going under charter control.
"I would like it to continue under the LAUSD [Los Angeles Unified School District], but with some improvements," said Martinez, who has a daughter at SFMS.
She said a previous experience with a charter school was not positive and left her with doubts about their efficiency.
"One of my daughters attended a charter and when she transferred to San Fernando High School they didn't count many of her credits," said Martinez.
Lemus said she had heard charter schools don't accept special education or English as a Second Language students and was concerned about this.
"I want it [SFMS] to continue under the district, because it will be only way for us to have equality," she said. "We just have to find a plan B to improve the school under the current plan."
In August, the LAUSD board approved 6-1 the School Choice Plan, which would allow non profit agencies to apply to run 250 new and underper forming LAUSD schools. Existing schools under the plan include those that have been in the program improvement status for more than three years, have had zero or negative growth in their Annual Performance Index [SFMS API went down three points in 2008- 2009 from 627 to 624] and where students have 21% or less proficiency in English and Math [SFMS is 20.5% proficient in Math and 24.1% proficient in English].
"If some kids would have gotten a few more points in math, we wouldn't be here," said SFMS principal Eduardo Solorzano during a meeting held Tuesday night at the school that was attended by some 50 parents.
But he said, development of a new plan gives the school community an opportunity to identify what is working and what is not.
However, he noted he would like to expand the current plan with implementation of "best practices" instead of opening the door to a charter or a pilot school.
However, outside groups, including Project GRAD, have already expressed an interest in running the school. A letter of intent must be received by the LAUSD by November 15th and a plan must be presented to the district by January.
Despite the future of the school being in play, many of the parents at the meeting did not seem to understand this. When parents split into different groups to express their wish list of improvements for the school, some of them mentioned they wanted more parent participation, better teachers and better traffic management around the campus.
Yolie Flores Aguilar, the school board member who proposed the School Choice Plan, said in a previous interview that the plan responds to the frustration she's felt with the way the LAUSD has run schools.
"My only interest is that all children have a good education," she noted, adding that competition is healthy and that agencies that take over schools will get a five-year commitment, but their progress will be reviewed annually and their contract can be rescinded at any time if things are not working.
"When you create competition, it leverages change and creativity and the need to do things better," said Flores Aguilar.
She also said charter schools selected to run LAUSD campuses would not be allowed to exclude special education or English as a Second Language students and would have to take children from their neighborhood first.
Ben Austin, executive director of the Parent's Revolution, a campaign organized by several charter institutions and a newly formed group calling themselves the Los Angeles Parent's Union, is also in favor of the School Choice Plan.
"We want to transform public education in Los Angeles because the status quo is broken," said Austin in a previous interview.
He recognized that not all charter schools are good, but added public education needs to improve.
"The real value of charter schools is that they promote competition. If LAUSD is running schools that are failing, charters give parents leverage and power to force the district to compete and run good schools."
However, some parents likeAna de Jesus and Laura Baz, who are part of the Parent Community Advisory Committee for District 2, which SFMS is part of, are weary of charter and pilot schools.
"They want to bring a plan they've implemented somewhere else, but they're not paying attention to our specific needs," said de Jesus, who attended this week's meeting at SFMS. "We want the schools to continue with the LAUSD and that they give us the opportunity to modify some things."
"My kids all went to public schools and are now in college.
Public schools do work, you just have to find a way to make them work," she said.
Newly elected school board member Nury Martinez, who represents district two and who is a proponent of pilot schools, has required that parents and community members be involved in the school plan. Community members and parents will meet again to discuss the plan this Friday at San Fernando Middle School starting at 8:30 a.m. The next meeting will take place on November 4th, when different agencies, including charter schools, will make presentations to the parents.
STIMULUS SAVED 6,000 Ed JOBS IN L.A., REPORT SAYS; WHIITE HOUSE SAYS CLASS SIZE EXPANSION AVERTED. smf: It was?
● "It also means that we were able to avert massive class [size] expansion," Melody Barnes of President's domestic policy council says.
● More than 250,000 full- and part-time jobs escaped budget cuts nationwide. A more complete accounting will be posted online next week.
By Joe Markman | LA Times - Reporting from Washington
October 20, 2009 -- Some 250,000 education jobs have been saved or created by the economic stimulus package, according to a White House report released Monday.
The news previews what will be a more comprehensive accounting to be posted by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board [comprised of twelve Inspectors General from various federal agencies and Chairman Devaney] on its website next week.
"There is a lot more work to be done, but we applaud those districts that have successfully used stimulus funding to stave off catastrophic layoffs and invest in critical reforms," Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement. Of the $97.4 billion in education funding included in the stimulus bill, $67.6 billion has been spent.
According to the report, more than 6,000 education jobs in Los Angeles were saved by stimulus funds. New York City was able to retain 4,000 positions, while 7% of the teaching corps in Scottsbluff, Neb. -- 18 people -- kept their jobs.
"It also means that we were able to avert massive class [size] expansion," Melody Barnes, director of President Obama's domestic policy council, said at a news conference.
The 250,000 number includes part-time and full-time positions.
In Las Vegas, where 1,100 teaching jobs have been saved by the stimulus, the local tourism economy has been hit particularly hard -- leading to budget cuts totaling $250 million in the Clarke County School District, spokesman David Roddy said.
"[The stimulus] was a tremendous benefit not only to the district but also to individuals who were facing loss of employment," Supt. Walt Rulffes wrote in a letter to the Nevada Legislature.
* The Times and the White House need to be a little more clear:
o by "L.A." do they mean LAUSD – the second largest individual school district in the nation?
o ….or L.A. County – the Los Angeles County Office of Education is the largest regional educational agency in the nation – comprising 80 school districts …one of which (the problem child) is LAUSD.
* And as for LAUSD, we seem to have saved jobs AND increased class sizes to among the largest in the nation – and I propose that '"the worst of both worlds" is NOT acceptable compromise!
from http://whitehouse.gov:
● The public is invited to submit written statements to the Advisory Committee by any of the following methods:
●Send written statements to the PERAB’s electronic mailbox at PERAB@do.treas.gov; or
●Send paper statements in triplicate to Emanuel Pleitez, Designated Federal Officer, President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Office of the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, Room 1325A, Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20220
From http://Recovery.Org
● One of the core missions of the Recovery Board is to prevent fraud, waste, and mismanagement of Recovery funds. Recovery.gov gives you the ability to find Recovery projects in your own neighborhood and if you suspect fraudulent actions related to the project you can report those concerns in several ways:
● Submit a Complaint Form electronically
http://www.recovery.gov/Contact/ReportFraud/Pages/fraudform.aspx
● Call the Recovery Board Fraud Hotline: 1-877-392-3375 (1-877-FWA-DESK)
● Fax the Recovery Board: 1-877-329-3922 (1-877-FAX-FWA2)
● Write the Recovery Board:
Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
Attention: Hotline Operators
P.O. Box 27545
Washington, D.C. 20038-7958
The Recovery Board is committed to helping ensure these funds are spent properly, but we cannot do it without your help. Additionally, the Recovery Act provides protections for certain individuals (whistleblowers) who make specific disclosures about uses of Recovery Act funds.
Student Recovery Day: LA UNIFIED TAKES ANTI-TRUANCY EFFORTS DOOR-TO-DOOR
SUPT. RAMON CORTINES AND OTHER TOP OFFICIALS VISIT THE HOMES OF SOME OF THE 20,000 STUDENTS WHO FAILED TO SHOW UP THIS YEAR. ABOUT A DOZEN TEENS BEGAN WORKING OUT PLANS TO RETURN TO SCHOOL.
By Howard Blume | LA Times
October 20, 2009 -- Los Angeles' top education official went door to door Monday to urge teens to return to school, netting about a dozen students with the effort and drawing attention to a growing problem.
Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Ramon C. Cortines was among 150 staffers and school board members who joined campus employees in the first-time, broad-based initiative, which targeted 10 truancy-plagued middle and high schools. This school year, about 20,000 of the district's 680,000 students have failed to show up as expected, officials said.
Cortines and others who took part in Monday's friendly sweep emphasized that their main goal was to help students, but said another reason was this month's deadline for districts to provide final enrollment figures to the state.
Those numbers, along with daily attendance figures, help determine annual funding allotments.
A continued enrollment decline could mean displaced teachers or even layoffs in a district that already has endured cutbacks resulting in larger classes.
On Monday morning, Cortines, accompanied by two counselors, knocked on the doors of about 10 households in a half-square-mile area north of John C. Fremont High in Florence. At a tan stucco house, the family he sought had moved, but the current resident was impressed when the superintendent introduced himself.
"So, you the man, huh?"
"I'm the man," Cortines replied, striding away as his companions hurried to catch up.
At the next stop, a purple stucco house, a Fremont counselor spotted a pit bull behind the wrought-iron fence. Cortines tried in vain to telephone the family, then spied a teenager peeking out from the backyard.
It was Jose, 19, who asked that his last name not be published.
The young man said his mother was having financial trouble.
"I'm trying to help her," he said. "She has a little store."
The counselors and Cortines said they could work with the teen to arrange a plan for night school, adult school or a part-time schedule. The superintendent did not leave until Jose committed to an appointment to work out a school schedule.
"I promise," said Jose, who is about a year short of the credits needed to graduate.
He was Cortines' only catch, but officials later said that as a result of the sweep, at least 13 students returned to Fremont on Monday to work out plans for returning to school.
In some cases, the families of those sought had moved. Other students, including Michael Velasquez, had graduated, but not from their original high school. Velasquez, who put on a fresh white T-shirt after the arrival of Cortines and his entourage, used the occasion to make an appointment with a Fremont counselor for help enrolling in a job-training program.
Of 962 missing Fremont students, the school had resolved the cases of 599 before Monday, officials said.
Parent activist Elisa Taub dismissed the effort as a public relations stunt but said she respects Cortines. Community organizer Manuel Criollo praised the symbolism, but said it runs contrary to day-to-day practices by the district that emphasize criminalizing truancy over providing needed social services.
Cortines launched the truancy initiative at the suggestion of school board member Steve Zimmer, who had participated in a similar outreach effort as a teacher and counselor at John Marshall High in Los Feliz.
Zimmer led one of the teams Monday and met with a 15-year-old girl whose story underscored the challenges. With a history of drug use and gang involvement, the girl had been out of school for almost three years and victimized by domestic violence and family disintegration.
A judge recently told her she must choose between school and jail.
After hours of meetings Monday involving district staff and her mother, the girl said she would give school another try.
SCHOOL OFFICIALS HOLD FIRST PUBLIC MEETING TO REFORM SAN PEDRO HIGH AND GATHER IDEAS
By Diana L. Chapman | http://www.theunderdogforkids.blogspot.com/
Friday, October 23, 2009 -- About 200 people converged on San Pedro High School this week in the first official “focus” meeting to help restore the beleaguered campus back to its glory days and remove it from the Los Angeles School district’s list of campuses that need urgent transformation.
Otherwise, outside operators – charters or non-profits – could take over the school of 3,300 students.
LAUSD Superintendent of Region 8, Linda Del Cueto, and Janette Stevens, the new principal sought after to refuel and restore the ailing campus, explained to those attending that this was the first of many meetings before the school must submit a transformation plan by Jan. 8.
The next meeting will be Nov. 9 in San Pedro High School’s auditorium.
While the evening became more of a fact gathering session – rather than learning new information about how to fix the troubled campus – it might have been a first in the Harbor Area community’s history where every principal from each elementary school and two local middle schools were in attendance as well as many high school staff members.
Del Cueto urged all her principals in the area to attend as a strong display to support for the only public high school in the community. She assured the audience that she planned for all schools’ teachers and staff in the area to participate in sharing information to improve academics on a much larger scale.
“We need to work together as a family,” Del Cueto urged the staff and those in attendance, which included parents, students and interested community members.“And it starts from pre-K. It starts at our feeder schools. We will bring teachers together at all levels to talk about instruction and support.
“I know you are here because you care about San Pedro High.”
The school currently has accreditation through 2010 and will improve as quickly as possible to keep out potential outside operators that might want to take over the Harbor Area campus. San Pedro High has suffered may woes, including a frequent turnover of top administrators, poor test scores, overcrowding and a dismal rating in its accreditation – that some educators compare to a D.
The Los Angeles school board approved outside operators to come in and make a bid on 11 other ailing schools and 24 brand new campuses this past August – a first in the history of the school district.
It means – should any other operators step forward, such as Green Dot charters – the LAUSD staff will have to compete against the other entity to keep running San Pedro High.
The intent to provide a plan is due by Nov. 15 and a final plan is due Jan. 8. School board members will vote on which plan suits the school best in February 2010, guided by Los Angeles Superintendent Ramon Cortines.
At last Monday’s meeting, school officials broke all the those attending into groups to provide questions and ideas toward a restructure. Several people complained, arguing that the debate should be held in the auditorium for all to hear.
However, Del Cueto, in a later interview, said students revealed they would not participate in the auditorium’s cavernous setting – and preferred the classroom.
School officials honored their requests.
“The small group setting allowed for genuine input from SPHS students,” Del Cueto emailed. “More than one student reported they would have been reticent to participate in the auditorium. Interestingly, youngsters we would assume to be main stream and "with-it" revealed they are struggling as much the Latino and African-American students.
It was a powerful lesson in not "judging a book by its cover."
Stevens, who has only held the post since August, said she was thrilled with the number of people who came and that parents must be “integrally” part of the school’s renovation.
HIGHLIGHTS, LOWLIGHTS & THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT: The Rest of the Stories from Other Sources
PARENTS DESIGN L.A. PARENT INVOLVEMENT MODEL
Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:56 AM
By Ellen Noyes | The Children's Advocate -www.4Children.org| September-October 2009 Issue | Hot topics series en español Los Angeles parents have a new tool this fall to help them be more active and engaged in their children’s schools. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will be implementing a new model for involving parents in schools that specifically addresses the needs
●●smf: This story is interesting because the organizations described are invited but not regularly represented in LAUSD’s Parent Involvement Task Force ...but are writing articles instead.
DOMINIC SHAMBRA, LAUSD INSIDER 1939-2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:39 PM
by Howard Blume | L.A. Times October 19, 2009 | 7:44 pm - Dominic Shambra, a consummate school-district insider who sacrificed a distinguished career to push through what became the nation's most notorious high school construction project, died Monday at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. He had been suffering from congestive heart failure and other ailments. After a well-regarded career as a
CALORIE LIMITS FOR SCHOOL LUNCHES ARE RECOMMENDED: An Institute of Medicine panel also urges lower sodium content under proposed guidelines for the National School Lunch Program, whose nutritional standards have not been updated since 1995.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:42 AM
By Mary MacVean | LA Times October 20, 2009 -- Children would get fewer French fries and more dark green vegetables in school cafeterias under recommendations being issued today by an Institute of Medicine panel. In addition, for the first time in the National School Lunch Program, the committee called for calorie limits on meals in an effort to curb obesity. The lunch recommendations
SCHOOL DAY FOR OBAMA
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:42 AM
By Helene Cooper | NY Times Online photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Obama asked several children what books they were reading. October 19, 2009 , 1:56 pm -- President Obama popped in on third and fourth-graders at a Silver Spring, Md. elementary school Monday, to tout the benefits of reading for youngsters, just as they were having lunch. The First Reader stopped by the
Teachers' & Public Employees' Retirement Funds: CALIFORNIA LAUNCHING FRAUD SUIT AGAINST MAJOR BANK
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:05 AM
Reporting by Jim Christie | editing by Carol Bishopric of Reuters SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 19 (Reuters) - California Attorney General Jerry Brown's office said on Monday it would unveil a lawsuit against a major bank for committing fraud against the state's Calpers and Calstrs retirement systems, two of the nation's largest pension funds. The lawsuit will seek to recover nearly $200 million in
GRIEF COUNSELORS AT HOLLYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL AFTER FOOTBALL PLAYERS DEATH
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:01 AM
LA Daily News Wire Services 10/19/2009 -- Grief counselors will be at Hollywood High School on Monday to comfort students distraught over the death of a ninth-grade football player who collapsed during a game and died, a school district official said. Spencer Juarez, 13, had just carried the ball and was jogging to the sideline when he collapsed with about two minutes left in the freshman-
STUDENT RECOVERY DAY: Top L.A. school official hits streets to find dropouts + Free Pass for Dropouts
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:48 AM
by Howard Blume | LA Times Online/ LA Now blog Photo by Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times October 19, 2009 | 3:36 pm When Michael Velasquez, 18, learned that the city's top education official was at the door, he decided he should put on his white T-shirt. L.A. schools Supt. Ramon C. Cortines (standing next to Velasquez above) was taking part in a friendly sweep of students expected in
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT GOVERNING BOARD HOLDING HEARINGS ON NAEP TESTING FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND ENGLISH LANAGAGE LEARNERS TODAY: Forums scheduled Oct. 19 in Los Angeles, and Nov. 9 in Washington, D.C.
Monday, October 19, 2009 12:20 PM
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Stephaan Harris - (202) 357-7504 Stephaan.Harris@ed.gov WASHINGTON—The National Assessment Governing Board will hold public hearings in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. to obtain comment on expert panel recommendations on uniform national rules for testing of students with disabilities (SD) and English language learners (ELL) on the National
●●smf: Although this federal hearing about Special Ed and ELL Programs was held at LAUSD Beaudry, parents were neither invited nor informed.
LAUSD SCHOOLS FACING BIG CHOICES IN REFORM: Charter option is not the only alternative
Monday, October 19, 2009 5:35 AM
By Connie Llanos, Staff Writer | LA Daily News Updated: 10/19/2009 -- The Los Angeles Unified District is just weeks away from launching its deepest reform effort to date - allowing nonprofits and other outsiders to run 36 new and underperforming schools. As the Nov. 15 deadline for the first phase of bidding approaches, targeted campuses are asking themselves a big question: Do we let others
EVENTS: Coming up next week...
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Phone: 213-241-5183
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Phone: 213-893-6800
What can YOU do?
• E-mail, call or write your school board member:
Yolie.Flores.Aguilar@lausd.net • 213-241-6383
Tamar.Galatzan@lausd.net • 213-241-6386
Monica.Garcia@lausd.net • 213-241-6180
Marguerite.LaMotte@lausd.net • 213-241-6382
Nury.Martinez@lausd.net • 213-241-6388
Richard.Vladovic@lausd.net • 213-241-6385
Steve.Zimmer@lausd.net • 213-241-6387
...or your city councilperson, mayor, the governor, member of congress, senator - or the president. Tell them what you really think! • There are 26 mayors and five county supervisors representing jurisdictions within LAUSD, the mayor of LA can be reached at mayor@lacity.org • 213.978.0600
• Call or e-mail Governor Schwarzenegger: 213-897-0322 e-mail: http://www.govmail.ca.gov/
• Open the dialogue. Write a letter to the editor. Circulate these thoughts. Talk to the principal and teachers at your local school.
• Speak with your friends, neighbors and coworkers. Stay on top of education issues. Don't take my word for it!
• Get involved at your neighborhood school. Join your PTA. Serve on a School Site Council. Be there for a child.
• If you are eligible to become a citizen, BECOME ONE.
• If you a a citizen, REGISTER TO VOTE.
• If you are registered, VOTE LIKE THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT.
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