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PARENTS ARE ANGRY NO ONE TOLD THEM WHAT HAPPENED TO TEACHER RAFE ESQUITH + smf’s 2¢ |
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LAUSD IPAD SETTLEMENT NOW COMING OUT OF PEARSON’S POCKET |
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JOIN THE SEARCH FOR OUR NEW SUPERINTENDENT! |
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The debate around Vanderbilt preschool study: PRE-K RESEARCHERS CAN’T GET PAST THE THIRD GRADE |
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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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From the DisneyWiki: “Dug is the top dog in
Disney/Pixar's “Up!” - a playful, friendly, overweight and loveable
Golden Retriever who is always kind to those he loves. He likes almost
everybody he comes across. He is also very good at following rules and
can be somewhat of an airhead at times.”
Disney’s ADD/ADHD archetype, Dug is easily distracted by some things …mainly squirrels.
From the ADD Help Guide “The good news is that, no matter how it feels,
the challenges of attention deficit disorder are beatable. With
education, support, and a little creativity, you can learn to manage the
symptoms of adult ADD/ADHD—even turning some of your weaknesses into
strengths. It’s never too late to turn the difficulties of adult
ADD/ADHD around and start succeeding on your own terms.” ¡Squirrel!
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THERE IS AN OAK TREE IN MY BACKYARD; I can sit in my living room and see
the branches heavy with acorns. There is a fat squirrel in the
branches; master of all he surveys.
LAUSD HAS BEEN MEETING THE CHALLENGES, WHATEVER THEY ARE, FOR YEARS.
We do it despite the distractions and disruptions and the squirrels. We
have survived the deliberate intentional disruption of John Deasy. We
have survived Great Recession and Mayor Tony’s AB1381 and NCLB and a
succession of “reform” boards of Ed – each less progressive and more
recessive than the last. We have survived budget cuts and layoffs and
RIFs and ‘right-sizing’. We have survived CAHSEE and STAR Testing and
AYP and API and AGOT and all the acronyms of the alphabet soup. We are
surviving The Great Charter Scare and the attempts by outsiders to
buy+sell our elected school board. We have survived two of the three
“Hello, I must be going!” superintendencies of Ray Cortines – and we
think we have a handle on the script for the third!
We will survive the superintendent search and Eli Broad’s attempted
takeover of half the District. We will survive MiSiS and iPads as we
survived the payroll fiasco and the layoffs. If John Deasy ends up going
to jail we will survive that …and if he doesn’t we will survive that
too!
Would things have been better still had the recession and “Dr.” D and
the iPads and Mayor Tony and all the drama never happened? Undoubtedly.
There are those who say we are following the status quo to rack+ruin and to them I say “Nuts!”
I have never met a more individually creative+resilient group than educators.
Or a group more questioning, challenging+unaccepting of the status quo at every grade level than students.
Or a group with more hope+investment in the future than parents.
We – the great “we” that are LAUSD – we are in it for the long haul.
Today, in this District, with the metaphorical boot of the prior regime
lifted and with the investment of far-too-little-money/oh-so-slightly
increased I see a million flowers bloom. I see smiles in the hallways of
Beaudry and local district offices and at a thousand school sites.
We are changing our direction and things are looking up.
I am meeting folks in the field and the lunchroom and the staffroom who
are committed to make good things happen for all these kids; to continue
the progress and accelerate it if possible. This is who we are.
There will be distractions+disruptions to come. Eli+Co. will make
trouble and there won’t be enough money and there will be inevitable
studies and reports and papers forecasting-and/or-proving rack+ruin or
financial meltdown. Perhaps even substantiating it on a spreadsheet.
There will be cries of bankruptcy and failure and calls for break up.
John Deasy left a fiscal+ethical mess – it ain’t gonna be easy to straighten it out!
There will be surprises to come. Bad decisions will continue to be made
by good people. There will be billion dollar lawsuits and good teachers
will be fired and bad lawyers will be rehired.
There will be alleged porn shoots at District schools.
¡Squirrel!
There will be studies about the wonderfulness of charter schools.
¡Squirrel!
Reporters will get the story wrong.
¡Squirrel!
Adults will make bonehead blunders and Steve Lopez will call them out.
[He's back? You've got to be kidding me. LAWYER BACK ON JOB FOR
LAUSD—AFTER EGREGIOUSLY BLAMING YOUNG SEX ABUSE VICTIM - http://bit.ly/1OCepgQ]
¡Big Fat Squirrel!
4LAKids will report on these things …and maybe will even chase some of the squirrels.
But we will endure.
It is the job of the Board of Education and the superintendent-we-have
and the superintendent-to-come to stay the course and not be distracted
or allow us to be distracted – to keep the disruption contained and the
progress progressing. It is the job of administrators to keep all eyes
on the prize, especially when it resides just beyond the horizon. It all
of our job to allow the good work in the boardroom and the staffroom
and the classroom to continue+flourish.
This is all we ask.
This is all we need.
¡Onward/Adelante! – smf
PARENTS ARE ANGRY NO ONE TOLD THEM WHAT HAPPENED TO TEACHER RAFE ESQUITH + smf’s 2¢
By Sonali Kohli | LA Times | http://lat.ms/1Lpk1VQ
October 16, 2015 :: Brenda Gonzalez was supposed to perform in "A
Winter’s Tale" in April, along with her fellow Hobart Shakespeareans.
They’d been preparing all year, her mother, Angie Gonzalez, recalled
Thursday. Brenda was going to dance and play the guitar.
But the group’s teacher, Rafe Esquith, was not at Hobart Elementary
School the day that the performances were supposed to begin, Gonzalez
said.
After about a week of absences, she went to the principal’s office to ask where Esquith was — it was unlike him to miss school.
“We were told it was a family issue,” Gonzalez said.
A few weeks later, Brenda came home and told her mother that students
were being pulled out of class and interrogated about Esquith’s actions.
Gonzalez and other parents asked, again, what was happening.
Again, the school said it was a personal issue.
In reality, the Los Angeles Unified School District had removed Esquith
from class and was investigating a number of issues related to him after
a colleague reported that he made a joke to students that contained a
reference to nudity.
This week, the school district fired Esquith, Hobart’s most famous
teacher. The district investigation began after the colleague complained
about seeing Esquith make an inappropriate joke. The investigation
expanded to other matters, including allegations that Esquith touched
minors inappropriately before and during his decades-long teaching
career. Esquith has denied wrongdoing.
A district spokeswoman said she could not immediately confirm what
parents were told, and but that details of the investigation were
confidential. District officials said they could not discuss a vote to
dismiss a teacher because it is a personnel matter. The Times learned of
the vote to begin the dismissal process from sources who requested
anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
By now, many Angelenos are familiar with Esquith’s name: He’s a former
Disney National Outstanding Teacher of the Year who wrote books with
titles such as “Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire.” The investigation into
his conduct has been covered by local and national media; scores of
former students have spoken out in his defense.
Esquith sued the district in August, seeking to be reinstated, and on
Thursday, his attorneys filed a second lawsuit. The new litigation,
filed on behalf of Esquith and other unnamed teachers, accuses the
district of using questionable investigations to drive veteran,
higher-salaried instructors out of their jobs.
Even in the aftermath of Esquith’s dismissal this week, Hobart parents
say they have to rely on news reports for details of the case. Some
still don’t even know that a teacher at their children’s school was
dismissed.
When Esquith stopped teaching, Cecilia Martinez’s daughter, Leslie, was
upset. “It was a surprise for me because Leslie was so happy with the
teacher,” Martinez said as she stood outside Hobart on Thursday
afternoon, waiting to pick up her 7-year-old son.
Martinez also thought that Esquith had to leave because of personal
reasons. She had not heard about the allegations against him, or about
his being fired. And the little she did know, she said, she found out
from another parent.
The school has never contacted her about it or questioned her daughter, as far as she knows.
Neither of Eduardo Salvador’s two elementary school daughters were in
Esquith’s class last year, but he said that parents should have been
informed about the situation. He had heard a rumor about Esquith making
an inappropriate joke, but didn’t know about the more recent
allegations, the investigation or the vote to fire him.
“They should have sent letters or something,” Salvador said.
That lack of official communication, Gonzalez said, continued even amid
this week’s LAUSD vote to dismiss Esquith. Gonzalez found out that the
board voted to fire Esquith on Wednesday night, through a link to the
Times story on the Hobart Shakespeareans Facebook page. She hasn’t found
a way to to tell her daughter yet.
Yesica Navarro saw the same Facebook post Thursday morning. She was
reading the story on her computer at home, and didn’t realize that her
son Oscar Llerenas was standing nearby. He was in Esquith’s class too,
and asked what she was reading. She tried to explain the situation, but
he didn’t react well.
“He cried,” Navarro said. “He was very, very frustrated.”
• Times staff writer Howard Blume contributed to this report.
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●●smf’s 2¢: At first impression one can understand an uncertain level
of confusion. The stock+trade rote response is that ‘This is a personnel
matter’. As in: “District officials said they could not discuss a vote
to dismiss a teacher because it is a personnel matter.”
Esquith’s student’s parents are, by+large, Hispanic or Korean; English
is not their first language and the difference between ‘personal, and
‘personnel’ is ambiguous and confusing.
The stories about the self-styled “Tiger Team” [http://lat.ms/1Lpr40T]
investigating LAUSD alleged child abuse are creepy enough – reminiscent
of Inspector Javert and Les Misérables - but the line (above):“A few
weeks later, Brenda came home and told her mother that students were
being pulled out of class and interrogated about Esquith’s actions”
makes what little hair I have stand on end.
“Interrogated” may be too-loaded a word – but my expectation, as an
unrepentant middle-class white parent, would be that when investigators
of any stripe question my child I will be informed in a timely manner.
As in: Immediately …if not sooner.
And I do recall that that was the policy the Board of Education created
after the Paul Chapel case at Telfair Elementary in Pacoima in 2011-12.
:: NBC News 3/29/2012: “LAUSD Mandates Parents be Alerted of Teacher
Abuse Allegations Within 72 Hours” | http://bit.ly/1LT4GfG
…but then “Dr.” Deasy and The LA School Report declared the end of Teacher Jail back in 2014 | http://bit.ly/1grY1jk
LAUSD IPAD SETTLEMENT NOW COMING OUT OF PEARSON’S POCKET
by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez | KPCC 89.3 | http://bit.ly/1kdSDna
Audio from this story: 0:38 Listen > http://bit.ly/1KgAOZr
October 16, 04:39 PM :: Education company Pearson PLC said on Friday
it is paying for the settlement negotiated by Los Angeles Unified with
the Apple and Lenovo computer firms over the botched software used in
the iPads-for-all program.
Pearson created the educational program that was installed in thousands
of tablets that LAUSD distributed beginning in fall 2013. The effort was
part of a $1 billion technology program to get the devices in the hands
of each student.
Teachers and students almost immediately reported significant problems
with the software, including missing math problems and errors in the
material. Many teachers concluded that the curriculum program did not
fit their students' needs and stopped using it.
The district announced in April it would no longer use the software and
demanded a refund from Apple. In September, Superintendent Ramon
Cortines said the district had negotiated a $6.4 million settlement with
Apple and Lenovo.
But on Thursday, the district said it will be Pearson that will pay the
settlement. The company will pay $4.2 million directly to LAUSD and
reimburse Lenovo for a $2.25 million account credit that Lenovo is
providing the school district.
In written statements issued, the district did not blame the companies
for the software problems and Pearson did not apologize or explain how
the issues occurred.
Neither the district nor Pearson would explain how Pearson ended up
paying the settlement rather than Apple and Lenovo as earlier announced.
Pearson is "not going into other details about the settlement process,” said company spokeswoman Laura Gamble by email.
LAUSD called the Pearson settlement, approved by the school board on
Tuesday, an “amicable agreement.” The school district plans to use most
of the settlement money to fund technology proposals submitted by
individual schools.
The district softened its description of the Pearson software since
school district attorney David Holmquist stated in his strongly worded
letter in April that Apple and Pearson failed to deliver the
state-of-the-art technology they had promised. Holmquist declared the
district was "extremely dissatisfied."
LAUSD spokeswoman Shannon Haber said in an email: “Due to multiple
factors, it became clear that this was not the right solution for
LAUSD’s technology program at this time. However, we continue to work
with Pearson in some areas.”
LAUSD's purchase of the iPads and the problems that followed contributed
to the departure of former Superintendent John Deasy, the tech
program’s strongest advocate. Deasy resigned last year following
revelations that district officials communicated with Apple and Pearson
details of the tablet program before the project was put out to bid.
Deasy has denied any wrongdoing.
The FBI launched an investigation into the iPad purchase in December,
carting out 20 boxes from the district office on bidding material,
communications and other records involving Apple and Pearson.
JOIN THE SEARCH FOR OUR NEW SUPERINTENDENT!
By email
17 October 2015
Dear Friends,
As you probably know, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
has launched a nationwide search for a new Superintendent of Schools to
manage the nation's second-largest school district. To assist our
efforts, the District selected Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates
(HYA), an executive search firm that specializes in finding school
district executives.
I am pleased to share with you that this search will include a robust
and inclusive conversation with families, teachers, staff, and members
of the community to identify the qualities we want to see in our next
Superintendent and what our goals are for the District. Much of the
information about the search process, including a brief online survey,
can be found at: http://achieve.lausd.net/superintendentsearch.
The surveys will be compiled by HYA and the feedback, which is offered
anonymously, will be shared with Board Members to help inform our
opinions.
Starting next week, the District and HYA will conduct a series of
fourteen community meetings to which all are invited. The first is
downtown on Monday night. Another four meetings will be held in the San
Fernando Valley on Wednesday and Thursday. I look forward to you joining
us!
HERE IS THE FULL SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT: Superintendent Search Public Forums
MONDAY, OCT. 19
6 p.m.
Roybal Learning Center Auditorium
1200 Colton St.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
TUESDAY, OCT. 20
9 a.m.
Local District-East Office (PLCC Room)
2151 N. Soto St.
Los Angeles 90032
7 p.m.
Local District-East Office (Saldivar Room)
2151 N. Soto St.
Los Angeles 90032
7 p.m.
Local District-Northeast Community Forum
Cesar Chavez Learning Academy
1001 Arroyo Ave.
San Fernando 91340
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21
8:30 a.m.
Local District-Northwest Community Forum
James Monroe High School - Odin's Hall
9229 Haskell Ave.
North Hills 91343
9 a.m.
Local District-East Community Forum
South Gate High School Auditorium
3351 Firestone Blvd.
South Gate 90280
1 p.m.
Local District-Central Community Forum
Belmont High School Auditorium
1575 W. 2nd St.
Los Angeles 90026
6:30 p.m.
Local District-Central Community Forum
Belmont High School Auditorium
1575 W. 2nd St.
Los Angeles 90026
7 p.m.
Local District-East Community Forum
South Gate High School Auditorium
3351 Firestone Ave.
South Gate 90280
7 p.m.
Local District-Northwest Community Forum
Monroe High School - Odin's Hall
9229 Haskell Ave.
North Hills 91343
THURSDAY, OCT. 22
8:30 a.m.
Local District-Northwest Community Forum
Valley Academy Theatre
10445 Balboa Blvd.
Granada Hills 91344
9 a.m.
Local District-East Community Forum
HIlda L. Solis Learning Academy Gymnasium
319 N. Humphreys Ave.
Los Angeles 90022
7 p.m.
Local District-Northwest Community Forum
Valley Academy Theatre
10445 Balboa Blvd.
Granada Hills 91344
7 p.m.
Local District-South Community Forum
Diego Rivera Learning Center
6100 S. Central Ave.
Los Angeles 90001
MONDAY, OCT. 26
9 a.m.
Local District-West Community Forum
Webster Middle School-Daniel's Den
11330 W. Graham Pl.
Los Angeles 9006
7 p.m.
Local District-West Community Forum
Webster Middle School -Daniel's Den
11330 W. Graham Pl.
Los Angeles 90064
TUESDAY, OCT. 27
9 a.m.
Local District-West Community Forum
Crenshaw High School-Multipurpose Room
4120 11th Ave.
Los Angeles 90008
11 a.m.
Local District-Central Community Forum
Eagle Rock High School Auditorium
1750 Yosemite Dr.
Los Angeles 90041
6:30 p.m.
Local District-Central Community Forum
Eagle Rock High School Auditorium
1750 Yosemite Dr.
Los Angeles 90041
7 p.m.
Local District-West Community Forum
Crenshaw High School
4120 11th Ave.
Los Angeles 90008
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28
7 p.m.
Local District-Northeast Community Forum
Van Nuys High School
6535 Cedris Ave.
Van Nuys 91411
7 p.m.
Local District-South Community Forum
White Middle School-White Hall
22102 S. Figueroa St.
Carson 90745
Information about the search process can be found at: http://achieve.lausd.net/nextsuperintendent.
Public discussions will revolve around three key questions:
1. What are the strengths and successes of LAUSD that you want to
see continued and enhanced during the transition to new leadership?
2. What are the challenges, issues, and problems that the new
superintendent will need to face and address in the coming three years?
3. What are the characteristic and attributes that the new
superintendent must possess in order to be successful as the next
superintendent in LAUSD?
To complete the search firm’s brief online survey, use this link by
October 28th: https://survey.ecragroup.com/index.php/887999/lang-en#.
You may also want to follow the conversation on LASchools on Facebook
and Twitter.
Your participation in this search process is critical to our success and
that of our students. If you cannot attend one of the scheduled
meetings and the survey does not suffice, please contact my office
directly at (818)-654-3785. I value your input and appreciate all that
you do on behalf of the students, parents and employees of the LAUSD.
Please help us spread the word! We look forward to seeing you for these important conversations.
Thank you,
Scott M. Schmerelson
Board Member, District 3
Los Angeles Board of Education
The debate around Vanderbilt preschool study: PRE-K
RESEARCHERS CAN’T GET PAST THE THIRD GRADE
“THE DECISION TO JUDGE PROGRAMS BASED ON THIRD-GRADE
TEST SCORES DISMISSES THE FULL RANGE OF SKILLS AND CAPACITIES DEVELOPED
THROUGH EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION THAT STRONGLY CONTRIBUTE TO FUTURE
ACHIEVEMENT AND LIFE OUTCOMES.”
by James Heckman | The Hechinger Report | http://bit.ly/1LAO4gT
October 15, 2015 :: Disadvantaged children who receive quality early
childhood development have much better education, employment, social and
health outcomes as adults, the vast majority of research shows.
Unfortunately, this good news is getting lost in the current obsession over third-grade test scores.
This is the case with the recent debate around the new Vanderbilt study on the Tennessee pre-K program.
Opponents and proponents of early childhood education alike are quickly
turning third-grade assessments into a lopsided and deterministic
milestone instead of an appropriate developmental evaluation in the
lifecycle of skills formation.
There is a reoccurring trend in some early childhood education studies:
disadvantaged children who attend preschool arrive at kindergarten more
intellectually and emotionally prepared than peers who have had no
preschool. Yet by third grade, their math and literacy scores generally
pull into parity.
Many critics call this fadeout and claim that quality early childhood
education has no lasting effect. Not so, and not by a long shot.
Too often, program evaluations are based on standardized achievement
tests and IQ measures that do not tell the whole story and poorly
predict life outcomes.
For example, the well-known Perry Preschool program did not show any
positive IQ effects just a few years following the program. Upon decades
of follow-ups, however, we continue to see extremely encouraging
results along dimensions such as schooling, earnings, reduced
involvement in crime and better health.
The truly remarkable impacts of Perry were not seen until much later in the lives of participants.
Similarly, the most recent Head Start Impact Study seemingly shows
parity at third grade while numerous long-term, quasi-experimental
studies find Head Start children to attend more years of schooling, earn
higher incomes, live healthier, and engage less in criminal behavior.
Considering this, it is especially important that we see HSIS through before condemning Head Start.
The decision to judge programs based on third-grade test scores
dismisses the full range of skills and capacities developed through
early childhood education that strongly contribute to future achievement
and life outcomes.
The success of an early childhood program ultimately comes down to what
is being evaluated, and too many evaluate the wrong things.
Too many measure only half the child, focusing on IQ and cognitive gains
at the expense of social and emotional skills that are often stronger
determinants of adult success.
Conscientiousness, self-control, motivation, persistence and sociability
have far greater influence on full-time employment, lifetime wages,
health, family and social outcomes than IQ and cognitive skills.
In fact, these skills facilitate better performance on achievement tests
despite treated children performing no better on IQ tests.
Quality, persistence and the right measurements are essential to
actualizing the promise of quality early childhood education to elevate
the lives of disadvantaged children and families.
The Abecedarian preschool program in North Carolina started at birth and
provided parental education, early health, nutrition, and early
learning up to age five.
After over 35 years of follow-up study on the treatment and control
groups it is the only early childhood program that permanently raised IQ
and instilled greater character skills which, in combination, delivered
greater returns in educational achievement, employment and, most
importantly, health.
At age 35, treated males had zero incidence of metabolic syndrome — a
precursor to chronic disease — in stark contrast to 25 percent of males
who didn’t participate in the program. A 25 percent reduction in chronic
disease is lifesaving and cost saving.
Research clearly shows that we must invest dollars not dimes, implement
high quality programs, develop the whole child and nurture the initial
investment in early learning with more K-12 education that develops
cognition and character.
When we do, we get significant returns in better education, health,
social and economic productivity that more than pay for the cost of
quality early childhood programs.
Yes, quality early childhood education is expensive, but we pay a far higher cost in ignoring its value or betting on the cheap.
________
● Nobel laureate James Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished
Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and an
expert in the economics of human development.
HIGHLIGHTS, LOWLIGHTS & THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T
FIT: The Rest (but not necessarily the best) of the Stories from Other
Sources
Steve Lopez: He's back? You've got to be kidding me.
LAWYER BACK ON JOB FOR LAUSD—AFTER EGREGIOUSLY BLAMING YOUNG SEX ABUSE VICTIM
http://bit.ly/1OCepgQ
Panel Discussion: AT WHAT COST ARTS EDUCATION?
http://bit.ly/1ROUmdR
DID ARNE DUNCAN REALLY BRING AMERICAN EDUCATION, ‘KICKING+SCREAMING’, INTO THE 21st CENTURY?
http://bit.ly/1LVAald
HOLLYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL SIGNS UNPRECEDENTED AGREEMENT WITH SPANISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
http://bit.ly/1KgRJev
COLLEGE AND CAREER PLAN CREATES DIPLOMA PATH FOR ALL STUDENTS
http://bit.ly/1MwjDET
TEACHER RAFE ESQUITH'S MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATION IS A HIGH-PROFILE TEST FOR LAUSD'S 'TIGER TEAM' - LA Times
http://lat.ms/1Lpr40T
LAUSD BOARD REJECTS PUBLIC FORUMS W/SUPERINTENDENT FINALISTS – Includes list of community forums beginning next week
http://bit.ly/1LuobiS
BOARD MEMBERS CRITICIZE LAUSD’S REHIRING OF LAWYER IN SEX ASSAULT CASE
http://bit.ly/1LkXmdl
UNIONS FORGE ALLIANCE TO FIGHT GROWTH OF CHARTER SCHOOLS IN L.A. http://bit.ly/1hEJSAD
LEARNING TO LOOK BEYOND KIDS’ BEHAVIOR, RESPECT THEIR SURVIVAL, BELIEVE IN THEIR FUTURE
http://bit.ly/1VSUGZf
Just in Time for Dia de los Muertos: THE RETURN OF VOTERIA!
Latino Elected Officials: Higher Voter Turnout Guaranteed!
http://bit.ly/1Ludixg
IS ELI BROAD’S HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF LAUSD COMING FROM THE OUTSIDE …OR IN? +smf’s 2¢
http://bit.ly/1MqJkGW
LAUSD & THE TROUBLING CASE OF ELKIS HERMIDIA: How the District Blamed an 8th Grader for Her Molestation + smf’s 2¢
http://bit.ly/1LiZVg0
LAUSD BOARD TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH PUBLIC SHOULD AFFECT SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH
http://bit.ly/1Pqr8T4
Pre-CNN/Facebook Democratic Debate: K-12 EDUCATION QUOTES FROM HILLARY CLINTON & BERNIE SANDERS
http://bit.ly/1LKqxfo
GOVERNOR BROWN VETOES BILL SETTING A TIMETABLE FOR EXPANSION OF PRESCHOOL
http://bit.ly/1LFWhMt
Politico Morning Education: COMMON CORE HAS WON THE WAR!
http://bit.ly/1OxR2DM
SCHOOL MOVIE SHOOTS RESUME AFTER EMBARRASSING REVELATION ABOUT PORN FLICK + smf’s 2¢
http://bit.ly/1Ou9Tkw
Why are we not surprised?: CHARTER ADVOCATES RELEASE POLL THAT SHOWS SUPPORT FOR L.A. EXPANSION! http://bit.ly/1MntzR0
IN WAKE OF SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, GOV. JERRY BROWN BANS CONCEALED GUNS ON CALIFORNIA CAMPUSES - LA Times
http://lat.ms/1Lpl6Al
EVENTS: Coming up next week...
See Superintendent Search Forums (above)
●Tuesday October 20, 2015
At Beaudry, in the boardroom:
BUDGET, FACILITIES AND AUDIT COMMITTEE Start: 10:00 am
SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL CLIMATE COMMITTEE Start: 4:00 pm
●Thursday, October 22, 2015 | 7PM - 9PM
Panel Discussion: AT WHAT COST ARTS EDUCATION?
At St. Bede's Episcopal Church
3590 Grand View Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066
(Mar Vista/Palms) http://bit.ly/1ROUmdR
with Bob Bates, Robin Lithgow, Carl Schafer & Carole Valleskey
Presented by West LA Democratic Club
*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:
Scott.Schmerelson@lausd.net • 213-241-8333
Monica.Garcia@lausd.net • 213-241-6180
Ref.Rodriguez@lausd.net • 213-241-5555
George.McKenna@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, county supervisor, state
legislator, 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 at http://registertovote.ca.gov/
• If you are registered, VOTE LIKE THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT. THEY DO!
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