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DEASY’S iPAD P.R. PITCH GOES ON |
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IF LAUSD CAN’T AFFORD THE BOARD OF ED’S $1 BILLION WISH LIST HOW CAN IT AFFORD SUPT DEASY’S $1 BILLION IPAD WISH LIST? |
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SERVICE WORKERS UNION LOOKING TO EXPAND L.A. UNIFIED ROLE + smf’s 2¢ |
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DR. DIANE RAVITCH AT OXY: ON REFORM AND THE REIGN OF ERROR |
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HIGHLIGHTS, LOWLIGHTS & THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT: The Rest (but
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EVENTS: Coming up next week... |
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What can YOU do? |
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It is a story that emerges at the beginning of time. After Genesis comes Exodus as sure as night follows day.
Even before Exodus and the Israelites flight from Egypt, Abram and his
wife Sarai flee Ur for Canaan. For a promised land – to become
father+mother to three major religions. And even before that Homo
erectus traveled out of the Rift Valley of Africa to Asia and Europe and
across the ice+land bridge to the Americas. The original Diaspora.
The Pilgrims ran out their wandering welcome in Holland and came to
Plymouth. Many of us or our ancestors came to this country in boats,
whether on the quarterdeck or in steerage or shackled below decks. It is
no more-or-less heroic to wade across the river or wash up on the beach
carrying the next generation in our arms. We arrive packed in the back
of trucks or in tight tunnels or in the trunks of cars. We visit Disney
World and overstay our visa, We lose a fight/our fortune/the day - and
move on, exploring and conquering and occupying the opportunity we make
or dream or steal; looking for Canaan or Zion or the 15th century
Spanish novelist Garci Rodriguez de Montello ‘s fantastic Island of
California.
Or, like the Joads: We migrate for a job …or another chance for ourselves and our family.
We come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age's most uncertain hour
and sing an American tune
It is human nature to search and dream for a better place for ourselves
and our children in the uncertain hour; a dream that comes true when it
comes true, like education, in the next generation. It is rare that the
successful or comfortable or lazy move to pull up stakes. The Dutch
burghers didn’t book passage on Mayflower – the separatist dissenters
did. Abram didn’t fit in in Ur with his barren wife and his monotheism.
The strongest and most successful stayed in the Rift Valley and became
the Maasai.
And so the Eritreans with food enough and wealth enough stay in Eritrea.
It is the misfits who sell it all and trek across the width of the
North African Sahara and give everything they have to a smuggler for a
ride on a leaky across the Mediterranean for jobs in Europe – where they
will be reviled and persecuted. If they make it.
As many as 400 dreamers drowned on Thursday off the Italian island of
Lampudeza. They crossed the desert to drown in the sea within sight of
the Promised Land. Men and women and children.
They dreamt a dream built of hope and opportunity as old as time. It is a
dream that we sometimes call American: A better life for ourselves and
our children.
Other pilgrims die/have died/will die in the Sonoran desert in the
blistering sun with America under their feet. Their dream a
hallucination and a nightmare - but a dream worth dreaming.
“Are you a political refugee or an economic refugee?” the Migras will
ask if they are caught alive ...reducing the dream to the dialectic.
There is no politics or economics; there is only the dream. It isn’t Marx, it’s Darwin.
They are “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe
free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.“ Drawn by the lamp
beside the golden door,
The Pope on Friday called for prayer for the poor of a world that "does
not care about the many people fleeing slavery, hunger, fleeing in
search of freedom. And how many of them die as happened yesterday?”
“Today,” he said, “is a day of tears,"
And despite the prayers the Eritreans and the Somalis and the
Salvadorians and the Oaxacans will keep on coming. They will cross the
Mediterranean or the desert. Or they will die trying.
Uninvited and unwelcome in Europe or Arizona or Pico Union.
¡Onward/Adelante! - smf
DEASY’S iPAD P.R. PITCH GOES ON
By smf for 4LAKids
I hope all 4LAKids readers got a chance to see the superintendent’s TV
“spectacular” (the title from a tweet from the virtual peanut gallery)
on KLCS Thursday night.
IT WILL BE REBROADCAST TODAY/SUNDAY ON KLCS AT 12:08 PM.
A few questions were answered but more were raised that remain to be addressed. Stay tuned.
THE FOLLOWING RAISES NEW DOUBTS about the iPad rollout and the charm offensive.
A CONCERNED PARENT WRITES:
2 Oct 2013 :: “I just got a call from an Assistant Principal shocked
that Deasy was at the Middle School Assistant Principal's Organization
meeting today to sell the iPads & Pearson. Told them to contact
board members and tell them to support it. Said affluent people are
opposed to the iPads because they don't want poor kids to get access,
thereby rich folks losing their social capital.
“It was ostensibly a meeting about Common Core. These meetings have
never been about Professional Development; they've been administrative
updates. Plus, it's extremely rare that Deasy would ever even give the
APs the time of day, according to the AP who told me about it.
“No one introduced themselves with titles so APs didn't know who was
LAUSD and who was Pearson. The Principal's meeting is later today and
he's expected there too.”
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●● smf: I have since spoken to the A.P. who broke the cone of silence and raised the issue.
The Superintendent also spoke to High School Principals and Assistant
Principals that afternoon; I spoke to someone who was at the second
meeting – which generally had the same content and message. Both
attendees spoke off the record – sensing their jobs might be in jeopardy
for speaking their truth to Dr. D’s power.
I AM CONCERNED THAT DR. DEASY, as superintendent, convened his middle
managers and lobbied them to lobby school board members to advocate on
behalf of a program and additionally requested that they likewise lobby
parents and other District staff. He did this at a required meeting on
district time - while the employees were on the clock.
No one I have spoken to can recall any previous superintendent crossing this line into pure political advocacy and/or lobbying.
And this from an administration that has previously requested staff to not deal directly with the Board of Education.
Also at these meetings presentations were made by Pearson - a vendor
with an active and pending contracts - asking the Principals and A.P.s
to support the Pearson Math Curriculum embedded on the iPads – even
though that curriculum is:
1. Not yet approved by the State of California or even accepted curricular material by the LAUSD Board of Ed
2. Not even fully developed
And again, staff was encouraged to advocate politically for the curriculum on the clock at a required meeting
Is this legal or illegal? I’m not sure.
Is this unethical? My opinion is that it is.
Is this too-clever-by-half or bonehead dumb? Yes+Yes.
I invite other attendees to the Middle School Principals and Assistant
Principals Organizations “By Invitation/Required Attendance” Meeting
held on in the morning on Oct 2 – or the subsequent High School
Principals+A.P. Meeting held in the afternoon, - both at the Pickwick
Gardens in Burbank (?*) to drop me a line.**
Or, better yet, as the superintendent has already suggested, sharing
their opinions with the Board of Education. On your own time please!
* The spending of the LAUSD taxpayer’s money outside the District is questionable. Not egregious, but subject to question.
** Confidentiality assured. You may wish to use a non-LAUSD e-mail account.
IF LAUSD CAN’T AFFORD THE BOARD OF ED’S $1 BILLION
WISH LIST HOW CAN IT AFFORD SUPT DEASY’S $1 BILLION IPAD WISH LIST?
►L.A. UNIFIED CAN’T AFFORD $1-BILLION BUDGET WISH LIST, OFFICIAL SAYS
By Teresa Watanabe, LA Times | http://lat.ms/1hmt8Y7
October 1, 2013, 9:58 p.m. :: L.A. Unified will need more than $1
billion to pay for additional teachers, a longer school year and other
items favored by Board of Education members -- but the chance of
acquiring such funds is zero, the district’s financial chief said
Tuesday.
Board members had passed a measure in June asking the district to
present a three-year strategy to pay for their priorities: a return to
2007-08 staffing ratios for teachers, counselors, administrators and
other school employees; expanded arts, adult and early childhood
education; and higher employee pay, among other things.
But when board member Monica Ratliff asked how likely it would be to
find the money to pay for all of it, Chief Financial Officer Megan
Reilly replied: “Not at all.”
Some board members seemed annoyed that officials presented a cost
analysis of their wish list rather than a blueprint for how to move
toward their goals over time.
“We asked for a design, a three-year plan of what it might look like,”
board member Steve Zimmer said. “If that's not possible, we get that.
But this is not a design.”
Reilly said the district faced $341 million in reductions to close a
projected deficit for next year despite more state dollars headed to Los
Angeles from Proposition 30, the school tax measure passed in November,
and a new state school funding formula. She said declining enrollment
was a key cause, noting that half of the decline was due to students
switching to independent charter schools.
Debate over budget priorities was postponed when Zimmer moved his
measure to increase staffing, among other things, to next month’s
meeting.
L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy has said his top funding choices are
closing the budget deficit, increasing staff pay and giving additional
state dollars to students who are low-income, non-fluent in English and
in foster care. The new state funding formula gives districts extra
money for such students.
The district will hold several meetings with students, employees and
community members on their budget priorities beginning this month. The
first public hearings are scheduled at Daniel Pearl Magnet on Oct. 8 and
King-Drew Medical Magnet on Oct. 9.
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►IF LAUSD CAN’T AFFORD THE BOARD OF ED’S $1 BILLION WISH LIST HOW CAN IT AFFORD SUPT DEASY’S $1 BILLION IPAD WISH LIST?
By smf for 4LAKids - Apples v. Oranges. I know it’s not a fair comparison.
Dr. Deasy’s wish list spends $1 billion to buy 3 years of iPads and maybe ten years of wireless connectivity hardware.
Dr. D’s wish list spends bond funds. I remain convinced that the use of
bond funds is legal – but it remains to be seen whether a panel of
appeals court judges will agree.
If Dr Deasy is right about the need for 1-to-1 computers to do the
Common Core Tests, every student in the 45 Common Core states (not just
LAUSD) will need a dedicated computing platform, whether desktop/laptop
or tablet.
The Board of Education’s wish list funds class size reduction and
counselors and nurses and arts and music programs, health ed and PE and
libraries and library staff and after school programs, etc, over one
year with general fund money.
I’m assuming that the superintendent has underestimated the costs of his
wish list (because he wants to do it) and is overestimating the cost
of the Board of Ed’s wish list (because he doesn’t want to do that).
This isn’t deceitful, it’s salesmanship.
LAUSD has made a down payment of $30 million on Dr. Deasy’s wishes – 6%
of the total for iPads - and we’ve learned that what we’ve bought has
security issues and curriculum content issues and needs keyboards and
high school math and science content, etc. The curriculum content
delivered is only 20% of what was guaranteed by Apple/Pearson by Dr.
Deasy’s own admission. And the adequacy of professional development is
questionable.
Maybe it’s time to make a down payment on the Board of Ed’s wish list.
And to consider that maybe the next superintendent might have his-or-her own wish list.
SERVICE WORKERS UNION LOOKING TO EXPAND L.A. UNIFIED ROLE + smf’s 2¢
by Hillel Aron- LA School Report http://bit.ly/1byMuMk
October 4, 2013 :: For years, the SEIU Local 99 has been “the other
union” in LAUSD. Representing custodians, cooks, bus drivers and other
“classified” workers, the union is just as politically influential, if
not more so, than the teachers union, UTLA. And yet its voice is rarely
heard in policy debates.
That might be about to change.
In a presentation to the LA Unified School Board on Tuesday, SEIU local
99 Executive Director Courtni Pugh laid out a vision to better connect
community services to schools. Dubbed OASIS, for Optimizing Access to
Services, Inspiring Success, the plan aims to turn local schools sites
into a hub of community services, such as park space, libraries, health
care providers and technology.
“Not everyone enters the classroom in the morning with the same
experiences the night before,” Pugh told LA School Report. “We have to
recognize that a child’s day does not start and end in the classroom.”
It is, by her own admission, not a new idea. Earlier this year, the
Youth Policy Institute launched an initiative called Los Angeles Promise
Neighborhoods, which aims to fuse a variety of anti-poverty services
into one program centered around a school. (The idea was inspired by the
Harlem Children’s Zone.)
Pugh’s goal is to set up six to 12 OASIS schools within LAUSD starting
in the next school year. She hopes the project will get funding from a
range of sources, including the City of Los Angeles, LA Unified and
non-profits.
At Tuesday’s meeting, school board members were practically falling over themselves to praise Pugh’s idea.
“I love this,” said Steve Zimmer. “This is what we should be doing.”
Even Monica Ratliff, against whom Local 99 campaigned heavily against
last year, thought the plan was “fantastic.”
Pugh, a former political director of the powerful LA County Federation
of Labor, has headed Local 99 for just over a year. She was also
recently named the chair of SEIU International’s education council. From
that platform, she is wading into the education reform debate, staking
out a middle ground between charter school advocates and teachers
unions.
“The debate on reform is false and silo-ed,” she said.
More than half of her members have children that go to LA Unified
schools, she said, and the majority of them live within 2.5 miles of
schools they work in. Not only will OASIS create jobs (some, presumably,
for her members), but her members will benefit from the services it
creates.
In a sense, OASIS grew out of Breakfast in the Classroom, an LA Unified
program that provides, well, breakfast in the classroom. It has been
heavily criticized by many teachers, who said it distracted students and
left a mess. But when Superintendent John Deasy put the program to the
board for a vote, hundreds of service workers rallied to support it, and
the normally divided board unanimously voted to continue the service.
“That was a fight that we thought was for the moral good,” said Pugh.
“Our members, many of them are part of the working poor that stood to
move further down the food chain if they lost their jobs.”
Pugh expects getting OASIS off the ground to be even tougher.
“This is a humongous undertaking – very complex, multiple layers and a
lot of red tape involved,” she said. “It’s a big step for us.
2cents
●●smf: ¡CAVEAT EMPTOR!
This article is from LA School Report, which editorially stretches pragmatism to cognitive dissonance.
While LASR occasionally breaks and/or covers breaking news - it is the
bought-and-paid-for mouthpiece-of/apologist-for ®eform, Inc.
SEIU Local 99 has long been a advocate for the forces of ®eform; it has
fervently, financially and actively supported candidates supported by
Mayors Tony+Bloomberg’s/Philanthropists Broad/Gates/Walton’s Coalition
for School Reform.
Watch the board meeting, view the SEIU OASIS presentation, note
MonicaGarcia’s gushing endorsement for the ‘purple people’ SEIU
membership. She owes them and they owe her. SEIU sold its soul to
Monica+Co. in exchange for full-time rather than part time employment
for cafeteria workers years ago– a fiscal challenge the school meals
program really never recovered from.
Of course SEIU supports Breakfast in the Classroom – it guarantees their
member’s employment. (4LAKids supports BiC too, because it feeds kids.
Dr. Deasy supports BiC because it makes him and his LA Fund look good.)
While watching the board meeting note that the SEIU presentation was NOT
on the agenda. That’s because it’s part of the Superintendent’s Report –
the part of ‘the show’ he’s impresario of. I am waiting breathlessly
for Dr. Deasy to invite UTLA, AALA, CSEA, The Teamsters …or even the PTA
to present their visions for the future in a twenty minute production
with PowerPoint+video co-produced by LAUSD staff to the Board of
Education.
Finally (and Ms. Ratliff and Mr. Zimmer please take note if you haven't
already) some of the OASIS suggestions are a power grab by SEIU in an
attempt to do things like staff after-school library programs with their
members – a job contractually, traditionally and professionally held by
Teacher-Librarians and Library Aide/Elementary Librarians – UTLA and
CSEA members respectively.
Yes, we can all get along …but as long as it’s a positional bargaining fight it’s going to be only that.
DR. DIANE RAVITCH AT OXY: ON REFORM AND THE REIGN OF ERROR
From the AALA Update Week of October 7, 2013 | http://bit.ly/15UhpLf
Oct 3, 2013 :: On Tuesday, October 1, 2013, noted educator and author
Dr. Diane Ravitch spoke at Occidental College in an event jointly
sponsored by AALA, UTLA, CSEA, CTA, CFT and the Occidental Urban &
Environmental Policy Department and Policy Institute. Dr. Ravitch was in
Los Angeles to promote her latest book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the
Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools.
Prior to her speech, which was open to the public, a private reception
was held on the campus, during which the sponsoring organizations were
able to dialogue with Dr. Ravitch. She acknowledged AALA member Irma
Cobian, former principal at Weigand ES who was targeted last year by
Parent Revolution, and said that meeting Irma was the highlight of her
trip to L.A. She then made a few comments about the parent trigger laws,
Parent Revolution and its founder, Ben Austin. Dr. Ravitch commended
Irma for her work and her leadership during an extremely difficult time.
Former
Board members Jackie Goldberg and David Tokofsky, as well as, current
members Steve Zimmer and Bennett Kayser were in attendance. The
presidents of Occidental College, UTLA and AALA were also
present.
Dr. Ravitch is an outspoken critic of the education reform movement and
has written several books addressing what she sees as a concerted effort
to encourage privatization of public education by destroying the
nation’s school systems. During her formal presentation to more than 700
people, she highlighted several “hoaxes” that she says have been
foisted on the American public. Among them are: public schools are
failing; the private sector does better; technology will save us; online
classes are successful alternatives; firing bad teachers will improve
student achievement; unions are the source of education’s problems;
merit pay is the answer; poverty is just an excuse bad teachers use;
charters and vouchers are the silver bullets to improve outcomes; making
tests harder will help students; and anyone can be a teacher, principal
or superintendent, with no formal education training. Another major
hoax is the current verbiage being bandied around that school choice is a
civil
rights issue. She likened this to the days when George Wallace and Strom
Thurmond refused the integration of their states’ schools because they
felt that parents had the civil right to choose with whom their students
attended school and then commented that there is no civil right to
abandon public
education.
What was particularly refreshing was that Dr. Ravitch did not just
attack the reform movement or the corporate culture that is trying to
privatize education, she provided eleven solutions in her book. First
and foremost was that we, as a country, need to focus on the early years
by providing good prenatal care for every pregnant woman and make
high-quality early childhood education available for all children. Other
solutions included reducing poverty and racial segregation; using tests
diagnostically; and strengthening the profession by requiring that (1)
teachers have at least one full year of teacher education, (2)
principals have to have been a master teacher and (3) superintendents
must be experienced educators who have served in multiple roles in the
system. She concluded by saying that we must work together to improve
public schools and that protecting them against privatization is truly
the civil rights issue of our time.
HIGHLIGHTS, LOWLIGHTS & THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T
FIT: The Rest (but not necessarily the best) of the Stories from Other
Sources
►OTHER SHOES DROPPING: Apparently the news media has
obtained a copy of the Confidential Board Report dealing with the
internal LAUSD investigation of board member Vladovic and alleged
employee abuse. This story may go public Monday.
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►LAUSD COMMUNITY MEETINGS RE THE LOCAL CONTROL FUNDING FORMULA/PROP 30 BUDGET PRIORITIES
• Oct. 8 at Daniel Pearl High School in Lake Balboa, 6649 Balboa Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 91406
• Oct. 9 at King-Drew Medical Magnet in South L.A., 1601 E 120th St, Los Angeles, CA 90059;
• Oct. 10 at the District’s East Educational Service Center, 2151 N Soto Street
Los Angeles, CA 90032;
• Oct. 15 at Burroughs Middle School in Hancock Park, 600 South McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90005; and
• Oct. 16 at Dymally High School, 8800 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles.
All meetings 6-7:30 p.m.
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SERVICE WORKERS UNION LOOKING TO EXPAND L.A. UNIFIED ROLE + smf’s 2¢: by Hillel Aron- LA School Report http://... http://bit.ly/17FAdl0
CHARTER SCHOOL OPERATOR SENTENCED TO PRISON AS INDUSTRY GROUP FIGHTS ON HIS BEHALF; Judge critical of Californ... http://bit.ly/192qFiA
DEASY DEFENDS iPAD PROGRAM ON TV SPECIAL to be rebroadcast Sunday at 12:06 on KLCS Channel 38/TimeWarner Channel 3 - http://bit.ly/15OdoNB
L.A. UNIFIED STUDENTS NEED iPAD KEYBOARDS TO TAKE STATE TESTS: L.A. district officials had said keyboards were... http://bit.ly/1bI6pF9
CHILDREN’S HEATHCARE + PUBLIC HEALTH: "Some Things Should Be Beyond the Reach of Politics—Prevention Funding I... http://bit.ly/1bG7flZ
DEASY’S iPAD P.R. PITCH GOES ON: I hope all 4LAKids readers got a chance to see the superintendent’s TV “spe... http://bit.ly/18YmEf9
REMINDER:Dr Deasy explains the whole #LAUSD iPad scheme to you tonight
at 6pm on KLCS. Ask about Security/Content/Deasy+Apple/Aquino+Pearson
What Superintendents Really Think: SUPES WARY OF SCHOOL BOARDS, POLL FINDS: …though it is the approval of supe... http://bit.ly/17xPqEM
IT’S TIME FOR iPAD ANSWERS SAYS L.A. UNIFIED BOARD: Annie Gilbertson | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC
BROWN IGNORES FEDERAL THREATS, SIGNS BILL DUMPING STAR TESTS AND SETS UP TRIAL OF NEW EXAMS: from Rough&Tumble... http://bit.ly/1c9jREV
UTLA NIXES LAUSD BID FOR $30 MILLION FEDERAL “RACE TO THE TOP” GRANT: By Barbara Jones, Los Angeles Daily News... http://bit.ly/18TcnTl
Reminder that @DrDeasyLAUSD to answer #iPad questions at 6 tonight on @LASchools public TV station - http://www.dailynews.com/social-affairs/20131001/lausd-chief-john-deasy-to-answer-ipad-questions-on-live-tv …
The Atlantic: STUDENTS ARE ‘HACKING’ THEIR SCHOOL ISSUED iPADS. GOOD FOR THEM!: By Audrey Watters, The Atl... http://bit.ly/16kGDpU
L.A. SCHOOL BOARD VOTES TO MEET ON iPAD ISSUES: By Howard Blume. LA Times | http://lat.ms/172GSBr October 2, ... http://bit.ly/1aOuucg
L.A. SCHOOLS DIDN’T DO iPAD HOMEWORK: by Laura Edghill, World Magazine | http://bit.ly/GAXrPE ... http://bit.ly/1bzHu6P
L.A. UNIFIED CAN’T AFFORD $1-BILLION BUDGET WISH LIST, OFFICIAL SAYS: By Teresa Watanabe, LA Times | http://la... http://bit.ly/18SDgH1
If LAUSD can’t afford the Board of Ed’s $1 billion wish list how can it afford Supt Deasy’s $1 billion iPad wi... http://bit.ly/1c7l27L
LATimes business columnist:Duncan+Deasy don't have solution to Public Ed's problems; they are the problems. CORRECTED http://bit.ly/1bxRSM8
It’s Official – Brown signs AB 484: CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS SWITCHING TEST PROGRAM FROM STAR TO MAPP: By Kimberly B... http://bit.ly/16j84Aj
THE L.A. SCHOOLS’ EXCELLENT iPAD ADVENTURE: By Michael Hiltzik, LA Times business columnist | http://lat.... http://bit.ly/1bxRSM8
LAUSD TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ON 2014-15 LOCAL CONTROL FUNDING FORMULA/PROP 30 BUDGET PLAN: By Barbara Jones, ... http://bit.ly/1c6Jgz2
COMMON CORE TECHNOLOGY PROJECT/“iPADS FOR ALL”: Superintendent Deasy to Answer Questions Live on TV Talk Show ... http://bit.ly/1aMDpeu
$1 BILLION iPAD GIVEAWAY AT L.A. SCHOOLS: Bad idea or poor execution?: L.A. school officials bill the iPad giv... http://bit.ly/16hqDF3
LAUSD’S iPAD ROLLOUT MARRED BY CHAOS: Confusion reigns as L.A. Unified deals with glitches after rollout of am... http://bit.ly/1aLiXL3
Deasy, Apple, Pearson, and Gates: A POST WORTH HACKING INTO: by Mercedes Schneider/deutsch29 | http://bi... http://bit.ly/1bvokPi
RAVITCHatOXY: "If there were more Arts Ed programs in our schools there wouldn't be a truancy problem."
L.A. UNIFIED’S BACKLOG OF BROKEN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ‘LIKE A WAR SCENE’: Mary Plummer | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPC... http://bit.ly/1aHZFWS
WHAT WOULD (OK: …WILL) FEDERAL SHUTDOWN MEAN FOR CALIFORNIA EDUCATION?: By Jane Meredith Adams |EdSource Today... http://bit.ly/18KuxGM
After-school/Beyond the bell: YOU CAN’T WORK AND WATCH THE KIDS TOO: After-school care is a juggling act for f... http://bit.ly/18oE99l
The Superlative Supe: iPads "glitches in the largest rollout of its kind in the history of American public education" http://bit.ly/auDNT3
Deasy: iPAD DEBACLE AND THE DISTRICT’S (MIS)HANDLING THEREOF ARE “GLITCHES IN THE ROLLOUT”: Letters to the Edi... http://bit.ly/17nEkSA
PACIFIC GROVE UNIFIED IN MONTEREY COUNTY WILL ASK TAXPAYERS TO PAY FOR CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY WITH SHORT-TERM BO... http://bit.ly/17mbX7q
DEARTH OF TEACHER LIBRARIANS POSES NEW CHALLENGES TO COMMON CORE TRANSITION: By Carrie Marovich, SI&A Cabinet ... http://bit.ly/18n92uP
DIANE RAVITCH & THE REIGN OF ERROR TOUR IN L.A.: Oxy on Tuesday, CSUN on Wednesday, both at 7PM: ... http://bit.ly/16c4FTJ
THE CHARTER SCHOOL MISTAKE: 'Reforming' schools by giving tax money to corporations is a distraction from the ... http://bit.ly/17m5HfQ
CALIFORNIA TRUANCY IS AT ‘CRISIS’ LEVEL, SAYS ATTORNEY GENERAL: Kamala Harris' report says one-quarter of elem... http://bit.ly/18IwD8d
L.A. UNIFIED TAKES BACK iPADS: By Howard Blume, L.A. Times | http://lat.ms/18mV4cm Students at Theodore ... http://bit.ly/1bo8l5w
“…the district ‘forced a marriage’ between Apple and the education publishing giant Pearson…” - http://bit.ly/auDNT3
L.A. DISTRICT OFFICIAL ADDRESSES ISSUES RELATED TO HUGE CONTRACT FOR APPLE COMPUTING DEVICES “…the district ‘f... http://bit.ly/1bmNmjz
EVENTS: Coming up next week...
►LAUSD COMMUNITY MEETINGS RE THE LOCAL CONTROL FUNDING FORMULA/PROP 30 BUDGET PRIORITIES
• Oct. 8 at Daniel Pearl High School in Lake Balboa, 6649 Balboa Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 91406
• Oct. 9 at King-Drew Medical Magnet in South L.A., 1601 E 120th St, Los Angeles, CA 90059;
• Oct. 10 at the District’s East Educational Service Center, 2151 N Soto Street
*Dates and times subject to change. ________________________________________
• SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION BOND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE:
http://www.laschools.org/bond/
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
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