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BILL SEEKS TO BAN USE OF SCHOOL BOND MONEY FOR iPADS |
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BREAKING BREAD …OR BREAKING FAITH? |
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LAUSD BOARD’S TURF WAR: Its decision to close two excellent charter
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REPAIRS NOT iPADS? The world is watching …and there’s an app for that! |
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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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This marks the 500th weekly edition of 4LAKids.
I have written this puppy from five or six different desks and/or
kitchen tables in four different houses; from hotel rooms all over the
place, from accommodations above the pub in Scotland and from buses in
Spain, from aircraft tray tables and from ships at sea. If there was
something you really liked please let me know; or if something provoked
action or disgust or offense or outrage. There’s a ten year anniversary
coming up in a few months – an excellent opportunity to get all
maudlin+retrospective.
Writing and editing 4LAKids is a pleasure and an obsession. I hope my
sharing has been thought provoking. I try to shine a light, not to be
enlightening or even illuminating but to selfishly connect my own
thoughts to what I see in those moments when I’m paying attention. To
those who stop me and say thank you I can only say thank you for
reading. To those who don’t stop and thank me I still say thank you for
reading thus far and not stopping me!
A teacher told me that FDR said: “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
Folsom’s First Law of Communications says you can always find a snappy
quotation by some famous bozo to justify any preposterous position you
care to defend …but I think they should put FDR on the dime and elect
him president four times over for saying that. I thank the teacher who
told me that and I thank all the other teachers for all the other stuff
they told me – even the ones that said “Just say no” when I already knew
“yes” was my last-and-final answer.
I thank Mrs. Robertson who taught third grade in Greenfield, Mo. for
teaching me the importance of The Story – you were my Joseph Campbell. I
thank Mr. Schaeffer, sixth grade teacher at Prince’s Gate American
School for teaching me that education is too important to be taken
seriously. We Americans are Mark Twain’s children; the Brits are
Rudyard Kipling’s and that’s all you need to know about that. Thank
you Miss Hamm (who wasn’t a Ms. yet in 1961) at Le Conte Jr. High – not
for teaching me how to write, but to write.
Building youth is like herding cats, organizing parents or educating educators. Or teaching an apocryphal pig to dance.
Our children in the end are our hopes and dreams made flesh and blood
and run completely amok – our best laid schemes gang agley – all
complicated and confusing and unexpected and funny. “What were any of us
thinking?” we laugh.
Thank you gentle readers for everything you do for children every day.
THE LESS SAID ABOUT LAST WEEK’S BOARD OF ED MEETING the better. (see
"TUESDAY’S BOARD MEETING: Six votes in search of a censensus" in
Highlights/Lowlights below)
ON FRIDAY THE APPLE COMPANY and the Common Core Technology Project
invited me and some others down to Fullerton to visit Robert C. Fisler
Elementary School – an Apple Distinguished School. Fisler is a K-8 ten
years into a 1-to-1 computing program (all Apple laptops) a school
master-planned into a master-planned affluent community with free
universal Wi-Fi and a pair of Lexi, Audi, Mercedes or somesuch in every
garage. The work done by teachers, staff and students at Fisler is
extraordinary …but so are the demographics.
First they eliminated poverty and then they gave every child a laptop.
In the debrief we were asked to address+enumerate the barriers to that
level of success in LAUSD. A teacher long ago taught me to avoid
'laundry lists'. Friday was Valentine's Day - so let me simply allude to
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s exquisite list in Portuguese Sonnet 43:
“Let me Count the ways…”
¡Onward/Adelante! - smf
BILL SEEKS TO BAN USE OF SCHOOL BOND MONEY FOR iPADS
By Stephen Ceasar, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/1j29fZh
February 14, 2014, 5:40 p.m. :: A new bill introduced Friday would
prohibit California school districts from using voter-approved
construction bonds for non-facility related items -- a move spurred by
the Los Angeles Unified School District’s $1-billion plan to purchase
iPads for every student, teacher and administrator.
L.A. Unified’s iPad project, launched last year, is funded with
one-time, school construction bonds paid back over about 25 years. The
plan, which includes network upgrades at schools, is expected to consume
all the technology funds available though the bonds.
Assemblyman Curt Hagman (R-Chino Hills), who authored the bill and has
been vocal in his opposition to the iPad program, said the public is led
to believe that bond money will be used to build new schools or
refurbish aging ones and not for other, unrelated purposes.
“It is important that construction bond money be used for school facilities, and not for things like iPads,” Hagman said.
Los Angeles Unified Supt. John Deasy has been steadfast in asserting
that the technology upgrade is an essential academic initiative.
Deasy could not be reached for comment.
The bill would prohibit districts from purchasing “instructional
materials” – including “textbooks, technology-based materials and other
non-facility related items with a short usable life.”
Those items should be purchased with money allocated from the state for
those purposes. “That’s what they should be buying this stuff with – not
long-term debt money,” he said.
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BILL NUMBER: AB 1754
INTRODUCED BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Hagman
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
An act to add Section 15267 to the Education Code, relating to school bonds.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1754, as introduced, Hagman. School bonds: instructional materials.
The California Constitution limits the maximum amount of any ad valorem
tax on real property to 1% of the full cash value of the property
except for ad valorem taxes or special assessments that pay the interest
and redemption charges on certain bonded indebtedness, including bonded
indebtedness incurred by a school district, community college district,
or county office of education for the construction, reconstruction,
rehabilitation, or replacement of school facilities, including the
furnishing and equipping of school facilities, or the acquisition or
lease of real property for school facilities, approved by 55% of the
voters if the proposition includes specified accountability
requirements. This bill would prohibit proceeds from the sale of bonds
authorized and issued pursuant to the exception described above to be
used to purchase instructional materials, as defined.
Vote: majority.
Appropriation: no.
Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 15267 is added to the Education Code, to read:
15267. Proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized and issued pursuant
to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 1 of Article XIII A and
subdivision (b) of Section 18 of Article XVI of the California
Constitution shall not be used to purchase instructional materials, as
defined in subdivision (h) of Section 60010.
BREAKING BREAD …OR BREAKING FAITH?
●● Somewhere between OUR DINNER WITH DR. DEASY from
AALA and LAUSD DISRESPECTS OUR SACRIFICES from UTLA lies the truth of
union solidarity in LAUSD. There is an unfortunate tendency in the
office of the superintendent (“Management”) to approach any-and-all
communications, accountability or community outreach/engagement –
whether with the Board of Ed or Parents – whether about LCFF, LCAP, The
CORE Waiver, The Common Core Technology Project, the Budget or Whom to
appoint to fill the District One Vacancy as a adversarial negotiation –
to be contained in a Cone of Silence and discussed in orchestrated
meetings. Data is unquestioned and Information is a one way street.
►OUR DINNER WITH DR. DEASY
From the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles Weekly Update Week of February 17, 2014 |
http://bit.ly/1g9Y1PG
13 Feb 2014 :: On Monday evening, February 10, 2014, Superintendent
John Deasy hosted a dinner meeting with leaders of all LAUSD unions.
This was a first. While this event was nothing like the memorable meal
portrayed in the film, My Dinner with Andre, it did provide the
opportunity for the Superintendent to share some important
budget-related information with the union leaders, while allowing us to
offer our candid views and ask some critical questions. We look forward
to a continuing conversation with the Superintendent on this and other
matters of importance to union members.
MORE BOARD COMMENTS
At the Board of Education meeting on Tuesday immediately following Dr.
Deasy’s dinner, the LAUSD union coalition, this time represented by
CSEA’s Letetsia Fox, again made comments regarding our unions’ shared
priorities. Following is our joint statement which we also shared the
previous evening with Dr. Deasy:
Recent budget reports from the Governor show promise that the California
economy will continue its rebound, and that school districts stand to
receive increased funding overall. Particularly, with the implementation
of the Local Control Funding Formula, LAUSD will receive much needed
supplemental and concentration grants in addition to the base grant.
This boost to LAUSD funding is critical to improving the quality of
services and programs to our students and communities.
As the District begins its development of the Local Control
Accountability Plan (LCAP), input from all stakeholders must be
meaningful, and the process must be transparent. As stakeholders,
employees play a vital role in the delivery of services in the District.
As such, LAUSD unions must play a critical role in the development of
the LCAP. Our unions have a united viewpoint as to what the LCAP should
look like, and we intend to jointly express this in any LCAP development
meeting.
We ask that the leadership from all our unions, certificated and
classified, be invited to participate jointly in any future meetings
scheduled to receive input from employees on the development of the
LCAP. Together let’s develop a plan that addresses all eight priority
areas of the LCAP to make our schools:
• Safer
• Cleaner
• Better supervised with improved delivery of essential services such as
instructional support, school to home communication and involvement of
parents, students, staff and community members.
We believe a service and program restoration plan must include the
restoration of its service providers—the hardworking men and women of
LAUSD. Let’s also repay these hardworking men and women for their years
of sacrifice which kept the District afloat. The coalition of LAUSD
unions concurs that a balanced approach for salary and staffing
restorations should be a high priority in the LCAP’s implementation of
the LCFF.
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►LAUSD DISRESPECTS OUR SACRIFICES: We saved the day, and we're being stiffed
UTLA President’s Perspective | http://bit.ly/1f8cU7n
Jan 31, 2014 :: "We are angry that the same people who came to us
during the recession, hat in hand, expecting us to essentially bail out
the District by taking pay cuts, have now conveniently forgotten those
hard sacrifices and are ready to embark on half-baked spending sprees
for things like iPads."
Last week, I sent the following letter to Superintendent John Deasy, with copies to the members of the Board of Education:
Dear Superintendent Deasy:
On January 15, the UTLA House of Representatives, by a near-unanimous
vote, directed me to communicate to you, and to the School Board, UTLA’s
salary negotiations demand for immediate bargaining and for
implementation retroactive to the beginning of the 2013-14 school year.
UTLA’s demand is for an increase in salary of 17.6%.
This demand reflects the undisputed fact that, since the beginning of
the recession, L.A.’s teachers and health and human services
professionals have, again and again, voluntarily made deep financial
sacrifices in order to keep the District afloat. We have made these
sacrifices even as workloads have greatly increased, and while the cost
of living has continued to rise. Simple equity demands that these
sacrifices be repaid.
This demand also reflects a new economic reality. In light of both the
passage of Proposition 30 and the steadily improving California economy,
the governor and the Legislature have made it clear that it is their
intent to fully fund schools and to repair the damage done to schools by
the recession, including a commitment to making teacher salaries
competitive. It would be a travesty if these statewide commitments to
our schools and our children were not translated to reality in Los
Angeles, where the children’s needs are the greatest, and where the
sacrifices by educators were the deepest.
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Warren Fletcher
UTLA President
cc: Members, LAUSD Board of Education
Under our union constitution, the UTLA House of Representatives acts as
the elected voice of the teachers and health and human services
professionals of Los Angeles. And there can be no question that, when
the House spoke on that January evening, they were giving voice to the
feelings and frustrations of the credentialed professionals at every
school in the District.
Put simply, L.A.’s educators are tired and angry.
We are tired of ballooning class sizes. We are tired of seeing hundreds
of our dedicated colleagues remain in laid-off status, living
month-to-month without permanent contracts, more than a year after the
passage of Proposition 30. We are tired of seeing vital services for our
students (like libraries and student mental health) slashed during the
recession, but not restored as funding now becomes available.
And we are angry. We are angry that the superintendent and his Beaudry
staff (and even some of our supposedly “friendly” School Board members)
have decided that restoring teacher pay is simply not a priority. We are
angry that the same people who came to us during the recession, hat in
hand, expecting us to essentially bail out the District by taking pay
cuts, have now conveniently forgotten those hard sacrifices and are
ready to embark on half-baked spending sprees for things like iPads.
Most of all, we are angry at the sheer disrespect that all of this shows
toward us and toward our profession.
Turning anger into action
Some of the greatest triumphs in our union’s history had their genesis
in righteous indignation. It’s important to remember that even our 1989
strike was less about salaries and benefits than it was an expression of
professional anger and frustration at the District’s upside-down
spending priorities and top-down directives.
The District was rescued from the fiscal abyss by our sacrifices and by
Proposition 30. And make no mistake about it, Prop. 30 would not have
passed without the hard work of L.A.’s teachers and health and human
services professionals. We saved the day, and we’re being stiffed. But
it’s not enough for us to be angry alone. We need to make sure that
parents and the community are angry as well. They need to know that the
clear intent of Prop. 30 is being ignored in LAUSD.
That is why I have reactivated the UTLA Crisis Committee. Throughout our
history, UTLA presidents have called upon the Crisis Committee to plan
and coordinate parent and community outreach and mobilizations, as well
as member militancy activities. I have asked one UTLA officer and one of
the UTLA Area chairs to co-chair the committee. The Crisis Committee
will regularly report to me (and to the UTLA Board and the House of
Representatives) on planned actions. Their first order of business will
be to coordinate citywide informational picketing at every school site
in the District. Parents and the community must be made aware of LAUSD’s
refusal to fulfill the promise of Prop 30.
A pro-active, pro-student vision
It is important to remember that our message to parents and the
community must be about more than just our salaries. Fortunately, UTLA’s
bargaining demands are not limited to issues of pay and benefits.
In April 2013, the UTLA membership overwhelmingly voted for the
“Initiative for the Schools L.A. Students Deserve.” The initiative
commits UTLA to a broad-based set of demands around the issues that
teachers and parents truly care about, including smaller class size and
full staffing, safe and clean schools, and adult ed and early ed
restoration. At the same House of Representatives meeting at which our
salary demand was adopted, dozens of proposals around these demands were
also adopted. Parents can have confidence that our vision for repairing
schools and keeping the promise of Prop. 30 is a vision that goes
beyond simply our paychecks and that embraces better, safer, and
healthier schools for their children.
We mustn’t settle for crumbs
In the end, our ability to secure our demands depends on our unity, our discipline, and our focus.
Throughout the recession, Deasy and the District tried to divide us, to
pit young teachers against experienced teachers, register-carrying
teachers against health and human services professionals, and K-12
people against adult ed and early ed. They thought that during times of
cuts and scarcity, they could get us to turn on each other. It didn’t
work. Throughout the trying times and the heartbreaking cuts, we stayed
true to our students, true to our profession, and true to each other. We
were a union in the best sense of the word.
Going forward in our fight, we must continue to live and embody that
same unity and solidarity and commonality of purpose. And we must not
settle for less than we deserve. If we send a message of disunity to the
District, they will respond by offering us crumbs, secure in the
knowledge that they can get away cheaply by playing us off against each
other. If that happened, it would be a tragedy. But I don’t think it’s
going to happen.
As it says in the Book of Job, “It was when we were tested most severely
that we shone forth as gold.” We proved that during the recession, when
we saved the schools for our students. Now we need to show that same
resolve in order to secure the schools that our students deserve.
We will be united. And we will win.
THE LAUSD BOARD’S TURF WAR: Its decision to close
two excellent charter schools is a reminder of what prompted school
reform + smf’s 2¢
Editorial by The LA Times editorial board | http://lat.ms/1hnjslE
February 16, 2014 :: It was just like old times at the Los Angeles
Unified school board meeting last week. The board voted to close two
excellent charter schools for reasons that had nothing to do with the
quality of education they are providing to students but rather over
provincial concerns about turf.
This was the kind of board behavior — common a decade ago — that drove
so many frustrated parents and policymakers into the arms of the school
reform movement. We had hoped those days were over.
At issue were charter renewals for two Huntington Park schools run by
Aspire Public Schools, one of the most highly regarded charter operators
in California. At both schools, more than 90% of the students are poor
enough to qualify for subsidized lunches and at least half are not
fluent in English. Despite student demographics that are usually
associated with low performance, these schools' Academic Performance
Index scores are above 800, which the state has set as the target for a
school's proficiency.
What riled the majority on the board was that the schools had contracted
outside the district for state-required special-education services. All
schools must sign up for such services, which provide professional
development and oversight to ensure that special-ed students are
receiving a sound education. Most schools must do this through their
regional special-ed agency, but charter schools are allowed to go
elsewhere for cheaper or more helpful services.
This would be a problem if there were any evidence that Aspire's
students were suffering as a result. But parents whose children have
severe disabilities — traumatic brain injury or autism, for example —
praised the schools to the board. Even the district's head of special
education said that from everything she's seen, the schools are doing
well with their learning-impaired students.
Regardless of the quality of education, board members Steve Zimmer and
Monica Ratliff said they want to ensure that all charter schools
contract with L.A. Unified for special-ed services.
Not only is that wrong thinking, it flouts state regulations. L.A.
Unified has gone to pains to lower the prices — and improve the services
— of its special-education wing, but that doesn't give it the right to
look askance at those who make other choices. Aspire contends that the
agency it uses in El Dorado County provides the same amount of oversight
and better data services for less money.
Aspire will appeal to the county Department of Education, which should
quickly and enthusiastically approve the charter renewals. As for the
school board, what it should do is feel ashamed for once again putting
students, families and educational achievement at the bottom of its
priority list.
●●smf’s 2¢: “In 1974, the California State Board of Education adopted the California Master Plan for Special Education.
“This statewide plan to equalize educational opportunities outlined the
process of developing a quality educational program for the disabled
students of California.
“The Master Plan required that all school districts and County Offices
of Education join together in geographical regions in order to develop a
regional special education service delivery system. A region might be a
group of many small districts or a large single district, but each
region must be of sufficient size and scope to provide the full
continuum of services for children and youth residing within the region
boundaries.
“The service regions were named Special Education Local Plan Areas
(SELPAs).” – from the California Charter School Association Website: http://bit.ly/1mllncR
• SELPAs do not provide Special Education services; they are planning
areas that provide program support and oversee that the services take
place.
• THE TIMES IS RIGHT, Aspire’s performance in handling Special Education
needs at these two schools is exemplary – not “just for a charter
school” but truly outstanding.
• THE BOARD OF EDUCATION IS RIGHT: SELPAs are “geographic planning
areas” serving “children and youth residing within the region
boundaries”. Aspire is affiliated with the El Dorado County Charter
SELPA headquartered in Placerville, CA, 423 miles from Huntington Park.
Call me cynical; I’m not the only one. The reality is that years ago
charter schools banded together and cultivated the El Dorado County
Office of Education Charter SELPA to avoid local
accountability+oversight of their programs by electing to keep the
overseers as far away from the parents, meddlesome school boards and
questioning+scrutiny of stakeholders.
There are ten charter schools in El Dorado County; there are 190+
charter schools in the County Charter SELPA. Aspire’s success in doing
it their own way creates a mythology that the El Dorado Charter SELPA is
effective …when Aspire is an outlier in a very sketchy scheme.
Should Special Ed parents wish to challenge Aspire’s process or the
SELPA’s decisions – or just attend a meeting of the Community Advisory
Committee (CAC) the legally mandated group formed to advise local
governing bodies about issues which affect children in special
education. - they must travel 423 miles to Placerville. If The Times
wants to cover a meeting of the SELPA they must travel to Placerville.
Neither happens. 4LAKids believes that charters should be able to select
their SELPA partner …but it should at least be in the same county as
the school!
...and what part of serving “children and youth residing within the region boundaries” is so difficult to understand?
REPAIRS NOT iPADS? The world is watching …and there’s an app for that!
by smf for 4LAKids
16 Feb 2014 :: The Repairs Not iPads Facebook Page [http://on.fb.me/1gr3YtW]
has grabbed the notice of the powers-that-be at a Beaudry; folks in
the Facilities Services Division and LAUSD Maintenance & Operations
are watching. Folks in Superintendent’s office and the boardmember’s
offices are watching. The Bond Oversight Committee is watching. The
local and national media are watching.
SAFETY TRUMPS POLITICS
As a political animal I recognize that the intent is to question the
superintendent’s commitment to technology (and Breakfast in the
Classroom) at the expense of maintenance and operations/safety and
repairs. I cannot report that the folks on the 24th floor have given up
on iPads and BiC to fix and maintain plumbing in LAUSD. That’s probably
not going to happen as long is this regime is the regime - but the
attention is paying off …and increased attention and effort and
commitment and hopefully funding is going into the M&O effort.
It’s working!
One complaint that the Facilities bigwigs make is that problems and
photos on the Repairs Not iPads Facebook Page do not identify – or
misidentify - locations of the problems.
4LAKID’S SUGGESTION IS THIS:
• Download the LAUSD Service Calls App (see following) to your
smartphone and use the reporting function when you encounter graffiti,
vandalism or the need for repair. Take pictures. It is possible to
report anonymously [in Settings] if you so desire – but be sure to
correctly report the location of the problem. Use the phone’s location
function if you can. And yes, it is possible to track the results of
your service call.
• Then post the same photo on the Repairs Not iPads page if that is your desire – the public pressure helps!
The Service Calls App was created before the District’s iPad initiative
so the App is not available for iPads at this time – but I will advocate
that iPads be added to the platform base – which will add students to
the reporter base!
from LAUSD FSD |http://bit.ly/NUF6Rv
Are you tired of seeing graffiti, vandalism, and repairs needed in our
schools? Ever wondered how you can report these issues? We have an App
for that! Introducing LAUSD Service Calls.
LAUSD Service Calls is a free and easy to use mobile service that allows
anyone within the LAUSD boundaries to report maintenance service calls
using their mobile phone. Principals, Teachers, Students, Parents, and
the public as a whole will be able to easily report issues to
maintenance services (Graffiti, Vandalism, Repairs) for quick
resolution.
LAUSD Service Calls support three major mobile application platforms:
iTunes, Blackberry, and Android. LAUSD Service Calls will be available
in the Windows Mobile and Palm platform later this year.
HIGHLIGHTS, LOWLIGHTS & THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T
FIT: The Rest (but not necessarily the best) of the Stories from Other
Sources
REPAIRS NOT iPADS? The world is watching …and there’s an app for that! by smf for 4LAKids 16 Feb 2014 ::... http://bit.ly/1gr5lca
L.A. UNIFIED HAD REQUESTED GUARD AT CROSSWALK WHERE WOMAN WAS FATALLY HIT. But its request was denied, officia... http://bit.ly/1gL0Qrc
THE VIRAL PHOTO OF THE FRUSTRATED GIRL: Don’t blame it on Common Core …It’s the Worst Job in the World!: This... http://bit.ly/1iXO5vk
AB 1432: SPI TORLAKSON ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR BILL TO REQUIRE FORMAL TRAINING FOR ALL SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ON ID AN... http://bit.ly/1gvuQY2
UPDATED: TUESDAY’S BOARD MEETING: Six votes in search of a consensus. Now with more stories …and less consensus! | http://bit.ly/1aVQdUh
TUESDAY’S BOARD MEETING: Six votes in search of a censensus: I watched Tuesday’s festivities from the comfort ... http://bit.ly/ML3TpV
CALIF RANKS 6th IN US ON AP EXAM PARTICIPATION + smf’s 2¢: The Associated Press FROM The Sacramento Bee | http... http://bit.ly/1iLGPCH
ZIMMER’S PLAN FOR LAUSD DISTRICT 1 VACANCY FACING BIG VOTE: by LA School Report | http://bit.ly/1glP5Ze Poste... http://bit.ly/1lwcvNI
from KPCC: LAUSD WI-FI UPGRADE TO COST $800 MILLION, VERGARA UPDATE + DEASY TO ANNOUNCE ARTS+MUSIC PLAN: Pass ... http://bit.ly/1aRoPH5
AB 1442: CA BILL AMONG MANY PROPOSALS TO PROTECT STUDENT DATA: by Kimberly Beltran, SI&A Cabinet Report :: The... http://bit.ly/1iLiTQ0
Q&A: PUBLICLY FUNDED PRESCHOOL ‘TOP PRIORITY’ FOR U.S. DEPT. OF EDUCATION: By Lillian Mongeau, EdSource Today ... http://bit.ly/1aRkF1L
LAUSD RESPONDS TO CRONYISM ALLEGATIONS IN MIRAMONTE ABUSE LAWSUITS: Previous information from an LAUSD whistle... http://bit.ly/1lvAs7H
THE iPAD IS NOT A LAPTOP: iPad Be Nimble, iPad Be Quick: Technology Integration from Edutopia | http:... http://bit.ly/1iHikqp
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KEEP CALM AND KEEP MAKING A PROFIT FOR PEARSON: An Interview with Alan J. Singer by Michael Shaughnessy Edu... http://bit.ly/M5XKVi
EVENTS: Coming up next week...
*Dates and times subject to change. ________________________________________
• SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION BOND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE:
http://www.laschools.org/bond/
Phone: 213-241-5183
____________________________________________________
• 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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