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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION APPROVES WAIVER FOR LAUSD AND SEVEN OTHER CALIFORNIA DISTRICTS |
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QUESTIONS REMAIN DESPITE WAIVERS FOR SCHOOLS : It ain’t over yet! |
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A year of living testlessly: CALIFORNIA COULD FACE YEAR WITH NO MEANINGFUL TESTING DATA + smf’s 2¢ |
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CALLING THE IRONY POLICE |
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HIGHLIGHTS, LOWLIGHTS & THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT: The Rest (but
not necessarily the best) of the Stories from Other Sources |
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EVENTS: Coming up next week... |
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What can YOU do? |
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Thirty-nine states, the District of Columbia and 20%
of California (including LAUSD) are now insulated from the Lake
Woebegonian foolishness+folly of No Child Left Behind: By 2014 every
child in every school in America was to score proficient-or-better in
standardized testing.
Every child above average. No exceptions. As it is written, so it shall be.
…except in the 39 states and DC and the eight school districts in
California exempted from the impossible dream by waivers granted by the
U.S. Department of Education. Olly, olly oxen; get out of jail free. And
collect $200. And spend it on anything you’d like.
The eleven other states and 80% of California? On their own. Left Behind. S.O.L.
But hey …LAUSD got our waiver! We are now governed+protected by a
contract unapproved by the Board of Education, unregulated by the State
of California, and unforeseen by Congress between the quasi-governmental
California Office to ®eform Education and the U.S. Department of Ed.
Don’t be concerned about democracy; no elected officials were involved.
● Letter to 4LAKids from a distinguished public educator: “Several years
ago I, among others, predicted that by the year 2013 every school in
the country would be a "failing school" because of the unreachable
requirement of NCLB.
“In addition, we would be producing a crop of graduates skilled in test
taking but unable to write or demonstrate comprehensive knowledge in the
social sciences.
“We have arrived, as predicted!!!”
● Letter to the Editor of the LA Times: “Why do California school
districts have to agree that test scores are reliable indicators of
teacher effectiveness, a premise that has been disproved, to receive a
waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law?
“From its inception, most teachers opposed NCLB’s impossible requirement
that by 2014 all students must demonstrate proficiency in every
educational standard as measured by one standardized test. Is there any
reasonable person who believes that 100% of California's adult
population could demonstrate complete mastery of even the fourth-grade
curriculum?
“Of course, almost all schools are doomed to "fail" under these
criteria, and public schools would eventually become for-profit charter
schools.
“It's time for a more realistic version of NCLB written by those who
understand what can reasonably be expected. No waivers necessary.”
--Kurt Page, Laguna Niguel | http://lat.ms/19VFnf7
MEANWHILE- (and improbably coincidentally) - test scores are slightly
down. And those to who test scores – whether the new Common Core State
Standards scores or the old bog standardized ones – are all-important
say not to be alarmed. A glitch. A hiccup. A statistical anomaly.
●Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education: “’We should absolutely not be
alarmed if these test scores drop,’ Duncan said today during a phone
call with reporters.” http://bit.ly/1cDS1k8
● Photo caption in The Times: “Test scores at Jordan High School, which
posted the largest gains among L.A. Unifier’s traditional high schools
last year, fell across the board this year. Officials there attributed
the setback to the midyear departure of the principal, two major outside
reviews, a campus reconstruction project and other challenges”. http://lat.ms/1cWu6e5 ●●smf: A lovely adult apologia for adult failure – but Jordan is the poster child for ®eform/Takeover/Reconstitution [http://bit.ly/14A7vk9] the ‘challenges’ are the ®eform – and it’s NOT working!
●Another photo caption in the Times: “Los Angeles Unified School
District Supt. John Deasy said he didn't know how to make sense of
California's falling student test scores.” | http://bit.ly/19WSDQK
But peel back the data and look at the information it evidences.
Consider academic progress over time: In the ten years between 2003 and
2013 – The Achievement Gap – the difference between the test scores of
White and Asian students and their Counterparts of Color and of poverty.
[http://bit.ly/18mrmTX | http://bit.ly/19lhONz. The gap has not significantly narrowed at all. No progress. None. Nada. Zilch.
As a matter of fact, it widened this year in New York testing .http://nydn.us/13bEH3i
“Narrowing the Gap” was the whole premise+promise and Holy Grail of No
Child Left Behind; it was the WMD the troops were looking for!
Instead the carrot-and-stick of high stakes testing and disaggregated
data tracking of the significant subgroups and A.Y.P. and "school
improvement”, “corrective action” " and "restructuring" has produced the
same result as “The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations” did. Another
eminently quotable rhetorical flourish for the ash heap of history
alongside “Whip Inflation Now”, “Just Say No” and “Nattering Nabobs of
Negativism”.
[Random sixties musical flashback]:
Don't be concerned, it will not harm you
It's only me pursuing somethin' I'm not sure of
Across my dreams, with nets of wonder…
ADDITIONALLY THERE SEEMS TO BE SURPRISE IN THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION that some students – after literally millions of them were
told officiously by self-serving fatuous authority figures (Did anyone
ever encounter a “proctor’ in real life?):
“Whatever you do, DO NOT TAKE PICTURES of the meaningless-to-you-but
all-important-to-us-adults test booklets and then post them on social
media!”
Now the test police and proctor wranglers are horrified that some of
those students actually did what they were told not to do! http://bit.ly/14A5IeN
WWT? 4LAKIds is shocked – ¡shocked! – that there is a strain of rebelliousness and willful defiance in adolescent youth!
TUESDAY AUG 14 IS THE FIRST INSTRUCTIONAL DAY OF THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR.
Welcome Back.
Back to School.
Back to Work.
Back to the most important work there is: Educating children.
Let's be safe out there.
¡Onward/Adelante! - smf
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION APPROVES WAIVER FOR
LAUSD AND SEVEN OTHER CALIFORNIA DISTRICTS
Associated Administrators of Los Angeles Update | Week of August 12, 2013 | http://bit.ly/19jRvqR
Aug 8, 2013 :: On Tuesday, August 6, 2013, eight of the districts
which comprise CORE (California Office to Reform Education) were
informed that the U.S. Department of Education had approved their waiver
from certain provisions of the NCLB Act. The granting of the one-year
waiver means that the CORE districts, LAUSD, Long Beach, Santa Ana, San
Francisco, Oakland, Fresno, Sacramento City and Sanger, will have more
flexibility in their spending of more than $150 million in Title I funds
and no longer have to meet the NCLB requirement that all students meet
proficiency in reading and math by 2014. Below is an excerpt from a
letter sent to Dr. Judith Perez by Dr. John Deasy regarding the waiver:
I am writing to alert you of some remarkably positive news. The
Secretary of Education has approved the NCLB Waiver for the CORE
Districts, and as you know, Los Angeles is one of them. This provides a
remarkable opportunity to immediately implement an alternative
accountability system from NCLB that is more robust, more thoughtful and
far less reliant on a single test score as we have today. As you know,
the current system is 100% based on a single test measure. Our system is
based 60% on measures of student achievement over time, and the
remainder on social emotional and other culture and climate measures
like graduation rates, discipline and suspension rates, special
education identification rates, reclassification rates, parent survey
feedback rates, etc. Among the immediate results, there will be a very
different way of identifying schools that are underperforming… I know
that there are a number of organizations that have not been in support
of this for various reasons.
As a group, and as an individual district, we look forward to reaching
out to each and every one of them to invite them to participate in
overseeing our work, and holding us accountable to this new process.
That accountability system mentioned in Dr. Deasy’s letter is called the
School Quality Improvement System and is based on research conducted by
Dr. Michael Fullan, a noted education researcher who has been credited
with transforming the school system in the Canadian province of Ontario
into a highly effective one. It also includes recommendations from Tom
Torlakson’s Task Force on Educator Excellence. Districts participating
in the School Quality Improvement System will fully implement the Common
Core State Standards this year and transition to Common Core-aligned
assessments by the 2014-15 school year. Although AALA was not part of
the discussion to apply for the waiver, nor part of the development of
the actual proposal, we are knowledgeable of and impressed with Dr.
Fullan’s work and fully expect to be involved in the implementation of
the new accountability system. As noted in previous Updates, the
teachers’ unions in the nine districts (one has since dropped out)
jointly sent a letter to CORE stating that they were not supportive of
the waiver because they had no input in the writing of it.
Each district will be responsible for developing an educator evaluation
system that incorporates student growth as a significant factor that
must be fully implemented in the 2014-15 school year. Districts have two
options for the evaluation system. The following is taken directly from
CORE’s waiver application:
Option 1 - Student growth integrated through a "trigger" system: With
this option, an evaluation will be conducted using multiple measures,
not including student achievement. The results will be compared to
student achievement results. Any misalignment between
teacher/administrator professional practice and student performance will
initiate a dialogue to identify why a discrepancy between scores
exists, followed by district action in the interest of professional
development of the teacher.
Option 2 - Student growth as a defined percentage: Student growth will
represent a minimum of 20% of teacher and principal evaluation
calculations. Student growth will be calculated using a growth model
which will be developed by the CORE Board of Directors in the 2014-2015
school year. However, if a district currently uses or seeks to use
another high quality student growth model, the district will have the
opportunity to apply to the CORE Board for the option to use an
alternative method, provided the district provides a strong
research-based rationale.
Although the wording is somewhat convoluted, what is crystal clear is
teacher and administrator evaluations are negotiated items. Therefore,
AALA and UTLA must agree on the criteria this school year in order for
it to be implemented in 2014-15. State Superintendent Tom Torlakson
weighed in, saying, “I will encourage the districts involved to
collaborate closely with teachers and other stakeholders in devising a
workable system of accountability and oversight.” U.S. Secretary of
Education Arne Duncan has said the waiver can be renewed next year only
if the districts fully implement their school-rating system and
teacher-evaluation plans.
For districts, the most important flexibility this waiver brings is
financial. Dr. Deasy said that the waiver will enable districts to not
hire vendors to provide supplemental educational/tutoring services and
it will redirect $60 - $80 million back to LAUSD school sites. Another
important component of the waiver is that the minimum number of students
necessary to be recognized as a subgroup has been reduced from 100 to
20. However, with the Local Control Funding Formula, the Legislature had
already lowered the statewide subgroup number to 30 students. With this
change, more than 150,000 additional students will be included in the
subgroup rankings.
The districts did create a new, separate oversight board, which will
include a cross-section of stakeholders that will meet biannually to
receive the districts’ self-evaluation reports and serve as an unbiased
external compliance review of each district's progress. Board members
will include representatives from ACSA, CSBA (California School Boards
Association), CCSESA (California County Superintendents Educational
Services Association), CTA, PTA, the Education Trust, CA Department of
Education, CA State Board of Education and English learner, disabled
students and civil rights communities.
QUESTIONS REMAIN DESPITE WAIVERS FOR SCHOOLS : It ain’t over yet!
Op-Ed in the Sacramento Bee By Peter Schrag | http://bit.ly/13QDg8W
August 9th, 2013 :: The waivers that eight large California school
districts got this week from U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan are
yet another measure of the power of the federal law they tried to escape
from.
The law has been cumbersome and stupid enough to prompt them — and many
states — to seek better ways to pursue the same, or better, goals. But
the waivers are not the end of this odyssey; they’re barely the
beginning.
The law, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), signed by President George W. Bush
in 2002, was commendably designed to force local districts to pay as
much attention to the education of poor, minority and immigrant kids as
they paid to all other children.
To do that, it required schools receiving federal Title I funds to get
all major subgroups of students to proficiency in math and English — all
of them — by 2014, and imposed an increasingly severe set of sometimes
mindless sanctions on schools not on track to that goal.
But since it allowed states to set their own standards, it was also an
invitation to dumb down tests and curricula. It led in some states to
cheating by teachers and administrators and to no end of public
confusion when schools were rated excellent by state criteria and
failing under the federal definitions.
It was therefore no wonder why nearly all states, and now the eight big
California districts (grouped together as CORE (California Office to
Reform Education), tried to craft programs with what Duncan called
“rigorous expectations” that would allow them to get out from under the
federal requirements. In addition to Sacramento, CORE, which comprises
some one million students, includes the districts of Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Long Beach, Oakland, Santa Ana, Fresno and Sanger.
Although 39 states got waivers from Duncan, California, which did not
meet Duncan’s demands, wasn’t one of them. The biggest stumbling block
was that teacher evaluations had to be based in part on student test
scores.
And so the CORE districts created their own “School Quality Improvement
System” (SQIS) which, in addition to academic preparedness, “values
multiple measures of student success in social/emotional development, as
well as the significant importance of a school’s culture and climate.”
When you screen out the jargon, you end up with a broad set of criteria
and accountability measures that include not just test scores, but
graduation rates, dropout rates, suspension and expulsion rates; the
rate at which English learners are redesignated English proficient;
parent, student and teacher surveys; and some, like student grit and
determination, that may defy all measurement.
Those criteria, as some of the superintendents of the CORE districts
pointed out, are closely aligned with the new criteria in Gov. Jerry
Brown’s new Local Control Funding Formula and other new state laws — and
with the broader national swing away from narrow test-based numbers.
But there are lot of blanks left to fill in — indeed, the whole scheme
and the remarks made by the superintendents at two telephone press
events this week give it the feel of a work in progress. The waiver is
only for a year, hardly enough time to put in place new accountability
systems, much less judge their viability.
More important, perhaps, is that all the evaluation plans, including the
use of student test scores in judging teachers, have to be negotiated
with local unions, few of which are warmly disposed toward this deal.
California Teachers Association President Dean Vogel called it
“counterproductive and divisive.” Scott Smith, president of the
Sacramento City Teachers Association, historically one of the most
intransigent of all teachers unions, called it “a terrible distraction.”
It’s not a good way to begin.
Rick Miller, the executive director of CORE, says he fully expects the
waivers to be extended. And there’s always the chance, as Duncan said,
that major revisions in the federal education law will make the whole
issue moot. But given Washington’s political climate, that’s probably a
vain hope.
And there are other questions. Again, who will rescue the kids in bad
schools? Who can fix them? And while some recent legal rulings loosened
the contractual knots requiring all teacher layoffs to begin with the
most recent (and sometimes the best) hires, there’s still no certainty
that the eight CORE districts, or any others, will be able to staff the
most difficult schools with outstanding teachers.
NCLB’s requirement that all schools be taught by “highly qualified”
teachers became a joke so long ago that it’s hardly ever mentioned
anymore. In the meantime, it’s become an open secret that the least
experienced, least competent teachers tend to cluster and churn in the
schools with the highest concentrations of poor and minority kids.
It’s encouraging that eight big districts are working together in
developing quality standards consistent with state requirements. But
huge questions remain, not least, finally, questions about the further
demands that federal bureaucrats — most of whom strongly oppose local
waivers — are likely to make as the locals fill in those blanks.
●Peter Schrag is the former editorial page editor and columnist of the Sacramento Bee
A year of living testlessly: CALIFORNIA COULD FACE
YEAR WITH NO MEANINGFUL TESTING DATA + smf’s 2¢
by Hillel Aron in LA Schools Report | http://bit.ly/1cWRecs
August 9, 2013 :: People are still scratching their heads over what
happened with California students’ test scores, which went down for the
first time in a decade, as the state reported on Thursday.
But the greater uncertainty could lie ahead.
The plan is for all students to be tested on a new curriculum — the
Common Core State Standards — in 2015. Those tests will be administered
on computers. But what about 2014? The State Assembly hasn’t quite made a
decision on that front, but 2014 could be a lost year in terms of
meaningful testing data.
Assembly Bill 484, which has been approved by the Assembly and is
currently being debated in a state Senate committee, would eliminate all
of the California Standardized Tests that high school students would
have taken over the 2013-2014 academic year — tests in subjects like
history, algebra, chemistry and physics. Some students will take the new
Common Core tests, and students in grades 3 through 8 would still take
the CSTs for Title 1 purposes.
“The tests will be irrelevant,” said John Mockler, an education
consultant who served briefly as interim California Education Secretary
and was one of the architects of Proposition 30. “Some kids are going to
take these new Common Core tests, some kids are going to take the old
STAR test. Either one of those or both will be invalid, because they
test different things. They can’t be used for accountability purposes.”
If AB 484 doesn’t pass, most students would take the CSTs for one final year.
Either way, California testing will face, in 2015, the same sort of
rocky results that New York is facing this year, when transition to the
Common Core caused their scores to plummet.
●● smf’s 2¢: This ascendance of the summer sun of waiver+®eform will
be made discontented winter when the eight CORE districts attempt to
negotiate concessions with their labor partners concerning teacher and
administrator assessments using the formulae they have already promised
the US Dept of Ed they would use. This will be complicated further f
there is little-or-no state testing this year. Re-read what John
Mockler says above: Both tests are irrelevant. Neither can realistically
be used for accountability.
LA School Report is a mouthpiece for ®eform, Inc. and interpreter of
the meaning and truthiness and direction of the driven data. It is not
curious that that they bemoan the potential lack of “meaningful testing
data” (Was any of it ever meaningful?) – or the possible paucity of
tests this year.
Remember: This is a one-year only waiver. It could just be the CORE superintendents picked a very bad year to start!
CALLING THE IRONY POLICE
By smf for LAKids News
August 8, 2013 :: L.A. Times Cinema Critic Kenneth Turan wrote of the city’s noir reputation:
“Los Angeles is the city of sunshine and light, the city that's like a
day at the beach, the city that ... you get my drift. That line of chat
may work with the suckers, the tourists and the rubes, but if you live
here, you know there's a corrosive darkness lurking below the surface in
perpetually sunlit L.A., a spiritual malaise that makes this town
rotten to the core.
“Hardly the City of Angels, this is a place where bad people come to do worse things and live to tell the tale.” | http://lat.ms/19QUR4e
►News Story: LAUSD ADMINISTRATOR ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY HAVING INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP WITH FORMER STUDENT | http://cbsloc.al/190Z2Hu
August 5, 2013 8:13 PM :: LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A 48-year-old Los
Angeles Unified School District administrator has been arrested for
attempting to meet with a 15-year-old former student with the purpose of
committing a lewd act.
During the course of the investigation, detectives with the Los Angeles
Police Department’s Topanga Division learned that Robert Nagai, of
Chatsworth, had an ongoing inappropriate relationship with the victim.
Nagai was an assistant principal at Hale Middle School in Woodland
Hills. After he left the school in 2011, he began to work in operations
at the district’s Educational Service Center West.
“We have been working with and cooperating fully with the Los Angeles
Police Department since they brought these allegations to our attention
late last Friday,” said Dave Holmquist, LAUSD’s general counsel.
“Although we have every indication that this was an isolated incident,
we have issued a notice to parents at Hale Middle School about the
arrest. Our top priority is ensuring students are able to achieve
academic success, which requires a safe learning environment. We are all
impacted when these sorts of incidents occur.”
The suspect is currently free on $75,000 bail and was scheduled to be in court on Aug. 28.
No further details were available.
Anyone with additional information on Nagai was encouraged to contact Det. F. Avila at (818) 756-3375.
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smf: THAT LAUSD ADMINISTRATOR, arrested for inappropriate conduct with a
minor joins a growing rank of bad District employees allegedly doing
bad things with students. He worked in the LAUSD Office of Operations –
which is, among other things, in charge of student and employee
discipline
(There is also The Office of Curriculum and Instruction and The Office of Parent and Family Engagement.)
He was assigned to one of the four Educational Service Centers – which
is the newest name for what were once called Local Districts –
downsized/rightsized from eleven to eight to four.
He was in charge of “housed employees’ at the ESC.
‘Housed Employees” are district staff excluded from classrooms and
school sites – forbidden contact with children – for alleged misbehavior
in places sometimes called ‘teacher jails’ or ‘rubber rooms’.
And so it is in the City of Angels, a place where bad people come to do worse things .
HIGHLIGHTS, LOWLIGHTS & THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T
FIT: The Rest (but not necessarily the best) of the Stories from Other
Sources
Letters: WHY ARE TEST SCORES FALLING?: Letters to the Editor of the LA Times. http://bit.ly/165MC2A
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN STATE, LOS ANGELES COUNTY DROPS FOR FIRST TIME IN YEARS: By Rob Kuznia, Staff Writer, ... http://bit.ly/15hV1cQ
SUPERINTENDENT JOHN DEASY URGES LAUSD STAFF TO ‘STAY CALM’ IN THE FACE OF CHANGE: By Dakota Smith, Staff Write... http://bit.ly/1cinPvD
CALLING THE IRONY POLICE: By smf for LAKids News August 8, 2013 :: L.A. Times Cinema Critic Kenneth Turan wr... http://bit.ly/14qe8W8
FLIPPED OUT: NEW SCHOOL – HOW THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION IS TURNING EDUCATION UPSIDE-DOWN: In the Digital Age, lea... http://bit.ly/15TiR52
The morning news on: THE LAUSD/CORE WAIVER FROM NCLB: L.A.'s among districts exempt from No Child Left Behi... http://bit.ly/15abSOJ
IN CASE U MISSED IT NCLB HAS FAILED.The Children left behind "The
Unwaived" - live in 9 states ...or are the 5 million non-CORE CA
students
WSJ: NAT'L TEST-SCORE DECLINES ARE LIKELY Drops in N.Y. Math+Reading Results Are Tied to New Nat'l Curriculum Standard | http://on.wsj.com/198xT9j
U P D A T E D:ONE YEAR ONLY CA/CORE NCLB WAIVER INCLUDES ‘UNIQUE’ OVERSIGHT PANEL (includes specifics+sordid details) http://bit.ly/1baum7H
CORE CA WAIVER: Local Educational Agencies’ Request for Waivers under Section 9401 of the ESEA of 1965 | Aug 5, 2013 | http://bit.ly/11KJ4PU
ONE YEAR ONLY CA/CORE NCLB WAIVER INCLUDES ‘UNIQUE’ OVERSIGHT PANEL: Posted on LA School Report by Brianna Sa... http://bit.ly/156LmG5
LAUSD included: U.S. DEPT OF EDUCATION GRANTS CALIFORNIA DISTRICTS’ NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND WAIVER: By Michele Mc... http://bit.ly/15H0aRY
EdWeek + Howard Blume report LAUSD/CA CORE waiver request APPROVED. Full details/analysis here: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2013/08/us_education_department_grants.html … …
LAUSD LAUNCHING (i)PADS /3 stories + additional reading: L.A. teachers give their new iPads a test drive L... http://bit.ly/13ZgwyR
CBS/LA: LAUSD Administrator Arrested For Allegedly Having Inappropriate Relationship With Former Student - http://cbsloc.al/190Z2Hu
UTLA URGED TO ALLAY PUBLIC DISTRUST: An L.A. school board member tells UTLA activists that the union must figh... http://bit.ly/14ZQRWW
CORRECTION TO 8/4 4LAKids: Lead misidentified Monica Ratliff's opponent
in May election. Antonio Sanchez was the ®eform-endorsed candidate.
EVENTS: Coming up next week...
LAUSD Celebrates the Beginning of the 2013-14
Traditional School Year: TUESDAY AUG 13 IS THE FIRST DAY OF INSTRUCTION
AT ALL SCHOOLS (Except Bell HS)
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• SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION BOND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE:
MEETS TUESDAY AUG 14 IN THE BEAUDRY BOARD ROOM @ 10 AM
check http://www.laschools.org/bond/
for the agenda - which includes a Common Core Technology Project
update and Prop 39 Charter Colocation issues plus an opportunity to
meet+greet the new LAUSD Inspector General.
Phone: 213-241-5183
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• LAUSD FACILITIES COMMUNITY OUTREACH CALENDAR:
http://www.laschools.org/happenings/
Phone: 213-241.8700
What can YOU do?
• E-mail, call or write your school board member:
Tamar.Galatzan@lausd.net • 213-241-6386
Monica.Garcia@lausd.net • 213-241-6180
Bennett.Kayser@lausd.net • 213-241-5555
Marguerite.LaMotte@lausd.net • 213-241-6382
Monica.Ratliff@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! • Find
your state legislator based on your home address. Just go to: http://bit.ly/dqFdq2 • 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 Brown: 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. THEY DO!.
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