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LAUSD+UTLA PACT: Los Angeles teachers and school district reach pact to spare jobs |
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A DIRGE FOR TREASURED ARTS PROGRAMS THAT L.A. SCHOOLS PLAN TO CUT |
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DEASY FLIP-FLOPS ON HEALTH ED: It’s a Graduation Requirement, not an Elective …but it’s optional |
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"We're headed for a day when public education in Los
Angeles is little more than constant drilling on the three Rs all
morning, and nothing but testing after lunch."
--Steve Lopez
THE STUDENT STOOD UP in the in Marshall High School auditorium to speak
to the town hall meeting about the school district budget on Monday
evening.
(More budget questions were "addressed" than "Answered"!)
She was that student who would-and-should speak up, high GPA, aced the
SATs – a student from Bravo Medical Magnet – one of the highest
performing LAUSD schools. She’s bound for Berkeley or Stanford or one of
the Ivy Leagues. Her parents are teachers, she and they believe in
public education. It’s in their heart, their blood – their DNA.
She told of having to leave LAUSD and public education to go to private
school to finish high school because her school had neither the classes
she needed nor the counselors to support her. It broke her heart; it
broke ours.
And outside: The magnificent front entrance to Marshall, the gothic
revival tower and architectural masterpiece, was wrapped in crime scene
tape and blocked by temporary chain link fence …because pieces of
masonry are falling from the tower and endangering the students. Because
deferred maintenance has been deferred again and again and again. Just
like the opportunity for the student who spoke – and her nearly 700,000
colleagues has been deferred and deferred and deferred.
BEFORE THERE WERE TOYOTAS and transistor radios and gotta-have-it
electronics the ubiquitous Japanese import to the US was the rubber
beach sandal. They had lots of names at first: zoris, ‘go-aheads’.
Flip-flops finally stuck. This in turn became a derisive name for a
flavor of wishy-washy political opportunism. (Flip and flop are also
operations in algebraic geometry – we’re not going to go there!) Last
week we saw a lot of the impolitical kind.
THE LAUSD PARCEL TAX, without which the District would be doomed after November? Postponed until after November.
The SETTLEMENT OF THE ALLEGATION OF CORTINES’ SEXUAL HARASSMENT? On
second thought, rejected by both Cortines and his accuser (The Board of
Ed still insist they have an agreement!)
THE SUPERINTENDENT’S COMMITMENT TO HEALTH EDUCATION and repudiation of
removing it as a grad requirement? Wishy-washed away along with the
baby and the bathwater in an informative that brings flip-floppery and
mixed-messaging to a new low.
THE GOVERNOR’S COMMITMENT TO SCIENCE. TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH
EDUCATION (STEM)? (“Through the State Board of Education and the Board
of trustees of the CA State University System, we increased the
graduation requirements to include 3 years of math and 2 years of
science.” + “….we need to strengthen STEM teaching and increase the
number of STEM graduates. California’s economic growth depends on its
continued leadership in innovation, technology, clean energy and other
fields that require strong math and science training…..We should expand
curriculum and teaching materials in STEM subjects.” http://bit.ly/MW3csQ)
Flip-flopped with a recommendation to eliminate one of those years of
science from the high school graduation requirements. (…and I’ll bet
that’s the year LAUSD was going to stick that unit of Health Ed into!)
A SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE TOSSED OUT (or at least hamstrung) THE PROP 98
‘GUARANTEE’ OF K-12 ED FUNDING – opening the door to continued abuse
from Sacramento.
I GUESS THE GOOD NEWS IS THE UTLA SETTLEMENT …which shows just how
desperate we are for good news. There are more furlough days, less
instructional days. Quoting the UTLA spin: “Arts Education, Academic
Literacy, Options, SRLDP, Adult Education, and Early Childhood
Education—will be restored, although Adult Ed, Early Childhood
Education, and SRLDP will be restructured, leading to the loss of some
positions.” 4LAKids does care about “positions” – because those are
people’s jobs+livelihoods …their careers and lives. But what really
concerns me is the loss of opportunity for students in Adult Ed, Early
Childhood Education, and SRLDP – as well as Arts + Music Education,
Academic Literacy and Options. Because, gentle readers, ‘restructuring’
will not be pretty. Not with the crew in place today on the 24th floor.
I don’t see that that current LAUSD leadership gave up any of their
misplaced priorities, such as value-added teacher performance and assessment – or
beloved programs and outside consultants, such as TrueNorthLogic, etc.
Mostly I see the result of a school district run from behind closed
doors at the negotiating table, with the labor agreement being the law
of the land.
With occasional strings being pulled from elsewhere.
¡Onward/Adelante! - smf
“Cortines responded with a May 24 memo ordering principals to report all
allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct to investigators promptly.”
That would be NYC Schools Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines as reported in
the NY Daily News 0n Friday, June 2, 1995 | http://bit.ly/L8USjv
LAUSD+UTLA PACT: Los Angeles teachers and school district reach pact to spare jobs
LOS ANGELES TEACHERS UNION AGREES TO 10 FURLOUGH DAYS
IN UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR, PREVENTING THOUSANDS OF LAYOFFS. THE DEAL WILL
SHORTEN THE SCHOOL YEAR BY A WEEK.
By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/KVw8i1
June 9, 2012 :: The Los Angeles school district and the teachers union
reached a tentative agreement Friday that would prevent thousands of
layoffs in exchange for 10 furlough days, which would shorten the school
year by a week.
Under the accord, teachers would lose pay for five instructional days
plus four holidays and one training day, equivalent to about a 5% salary
cut.
The deal must by ratified by teachers and approved by the L.A. Board of
Education. The school board is scheduled to vote on the plan at a
meeting Tuesday; union members are expected to vote at schools beginning
Wednesday.
"This agreement will enable many of our valued employees to remain in
the classroom next year," said L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy.
The budget picture will be affected by the November election. That
ballot will include two funding initiatives for public education,
including one backed by Gov. Jerry Brown. If it's approved, some funds
may be used to restore the full academic year, Deasy said.
If voters turn down a tax increase for schools, L.A. Unified's budget
woes would worsen considerably, the superintendent said. The equivalent
of three additional weeks of school would have to be sacrificed, Deasy
said. A typical school year is 180 days.
"We are all hanging on November," Deasy said.
If the governor's tax initiative passes, union officials said any
additional money must go toward reducing the number of furlough days.
And if teachers take the furlough days and the district ends up with a
year-end surplus, teachers would be reimbursed for the pay cut, the
union said.
More than 9,000 teachers had faced being laid off as of June 30.
The teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles, has estimated that even
with an agreement, more than 1,300 members still are likely to lose
jobs because of declining enrollment; others will be out of work because
funding for some positions has been lost or redirected.
For parent Jasmine Jia, the pact was the preferable of two undesirable options: layoffs or furloughs.
"Between the two choices, the furlough days for teachers are preferable,
but the state of public education is so sad and frightening," said Jia,
whose daughter is a sixth-grader at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched
Studies in Mid-City.
Jia praised the teachers and the school but added "the teacher can only cram in so much information with fewer school days."
She worried that a greater burden would fall on overworked or ill-prepared parents to fill in the gaps.
School officials have been trying to close a budget gap they estimated
at $390 million. Union leaders sometimes contested that math or
questioned whether officials were cutting as much as they could from
areas other than the classroom.
Over recent months, the district agreed to reduce funding for its
television station and slash the number of regional offices from eight
to four. Proposals to cut elementary arts teachers, early education
programs and adult education, among other things, were approved but at
least partially spared by the agreement.
This year's crisis followed a familiar recession-era pattern. In 2008,
the district closed a $427-million deficit; in 2009, $838 million; in
2010, $620 million; in 2011, $408 million. In all nearly 8,000 employees
were laid off over the last four years; many teachers have since been
rehired or used as substitutes.
Other recent school years also have been shortened. This year, the last
day for most schools will be June 19, three days early. In another year,
Thanksgiving became a weeklong vacation — as it probably will again.
"This is not just one furlough agreement but three years in a row for
most employees," Deasy said. "It's a lot of sacrifice for which I am
profoundly grateful."
Last year, the teachers union agreed to conditional furlough days, and a
dispute over them arose after the fact. An arbitrator finally ruled in
the district's favor, but the row delayed negotiations to resolve the
current deficit.
Budget problems are being felt up and down the state as a record number
of school districts face insolvency. Layoffs and furloughs have been
approved in other school systems as well.
In L.A. Unified, the state's largest school district, other unions
already have agreed to pay cuts, mirroring the pact with the teachers.
A DIRGE FOR TREASURED ARTS PROGRAMS THAT L.A. SCHOOLS PLAN TO CUT
WE'RE HEADED FOR A DAY WHEN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN LOS ANGELES IS LITTLE
MORE THAN CONSTANT DRILLING ON THE THREE RS ALL MORNING, AND NOTHING BUT
TESTING AFTER LUNCH.
By Steve Lopez, LA TIMES | http://lat.ms/L2UO6e
June 5, 2012, 8:56 p.m. :: Music teacher Brian Higa was mopping his
floor Tuesday morning in a Belmont High School classroom lined with two
glittering walls of shiny trophies, a couple of them nearly as tall as
his students.
"The blue and red ones are for all-city champs, 1988 and 1989," said
Higa, who has taught music to Belmont students for a solid
quarter-century and was once a student at the school himself. On his
desk was an orchestra plaque, from the 1970s, with his name on it.
Next year, Higa will get bumped to an unknown teaching job somewhere in
the district. His lovingly developed music program — and probably the
school's marching band too — will be history.
Why?
The usual.
Nobody knows exactly how many teachers and programs will get thrown
under the bus this year, provided the district still has buses, but it
could be bad, given the grim state budget forecasts and no consensus on
how to stop the bleeding.
"Core content classes such as English, math, social studies and science
are mandatory and must take priority when budgets are cut," says a
written statement on the Belmont music program from the Los Angeles
Unified School District.
It goes on to suggest that although "this beloved teacher will not
continue" despite the quality of the program he built, "exploratory
music and band instruction will be retained, and offered before and
after school."
Yeah, we'll see how that goes.
With the speed of a boulder plummeting off a cliff, we're headed for a
day when public education in Los Angeles is little more than constant
drilling on the three Rs all morning, and nothing but testing after
lunch.
Elementary school art is also scheduled to get bulldozed into the
landfill of better days, and with it the creativity and abstract
thinking art education promotes.
Three years ago, the district had 355 roving elementary school
instructors teaching dance, music, theater and visual arts. The plan was
to expand the program to 500 teachers. Instead, their ranks have been
slashed, with only about 240 left, and almost all of them have been
informed they won't be back next year — at least not as art teachers.
The impact?
"I could go on for days," said Robin Lithgow, the district's elementary
art coordinator. "The arts are a solution right in front of us for all
kinds of issues. Issues of building empathy in children, critical
thinking, building creativity of course, building community,
collaborative skills, thinking outside the box."
Budgetary restrictions are real, Lithgow acknowledged, but art
instruction shouldn't be considered a luxury. It is crucial to producing
"thriving students," as so many of the world's civilized nations have
concluded, and yet it is sacrificed in the U.S. to a so-called race to
the top.
"Testing is taking over," said Lithgow. "Everybody is saying the same
thing — that this obsession with data and scores is destroying public
education, but nobody can stop it."
Yes, she sounds exasperated, and I don't blame her. As a parent, I'm exasperated too.
The problem begins in Sacramento, which keeps pinching the hose because
legislators can't muster the courage to enact long-term guarantees for
education revenue streams.
And elected officials aren't the only impediments to sensible solutions.
The LAUSD and United Teachers Los Angeles have haggled interminably over
how many furlough days teachers might be willing to accept in order to
help close a budget deficit and thereby avoid some layoffs. I hear they
now may also be trying to figure out how to make additional adjustments
later, if shortfalls trigger more trouble.
You have to wonder how, if they can't meet halfway on furlough days
after dozens of negotiating sessions, they'll ever hammer out a deal on
the billions of dollars in promised but unfunded retirement benefits,
some of which — including health insurance plans — are pretty handsome.
I have news for both sides:
While you're negotiating, extending uncertainty into eternity, I hear
more and more parents talk about pulling their kids out in favor of
charter or private schools because they've lost faith that the district
will ever get it together.
And they may have a point. On Tuesday we learned that the parcel tax the
district had planned to put on the November ballot is now being yanked.
And then there was the debacle last week involving a sexual harassment
claim against former Supt. Ray Cortines by an employee he recruited. The
district hired an outside lawyer and PR firm because this was a
"sensitive matter," then bungled the deal in announcing a settlement —
$200,000, plus lifetime benefits worth $250,000 — for the alleged
victim. The alleged victim's lawyers say the announcement was made
without their client's consent, and that the lifetime benefits were
supposed to be valued at $300,000.
For this, the district hired outside PR?
Ten people work in the LAUSD media office. Surely one of them could have
screwed up this "sensitive matter" as badly as any outside contractor.
And what did outside counsel and PR cost? I'll let you know when the
district answers my questions about that.
What I can tell you is that at Belmont High, Brian Higa would love to
have had a fraction of what the district paid outsiders to handle the
Cortines matter. He told me his budget for supplies this year was $500,
which means he repairs most of the ancient instruments himself.
Javier Espinoza, a junior, told me he's transferring out of Belmont
because Higa will be gone. Mei Kwan told me she felt out of place after
moving to the U.S. from China until she found "my family" in the music
program.
It was like a family, Vanesa Yanez agreed.
"And he is like the father of the family."
A sad song, indeed.
NEXT, TAKE SCIENCE AND DIVIDE BY TWO
Themes in the News by UCLA IDEA/Week of June 4-8, 2012 | http://bit.ly/MjBUcD
06-08-2012 :: More than a decade ago, school policy and reform trends
merged around a narrow view of what education California students were
entitled to receive. For example, a growing concern about gaps in test
performance among different groups of students (typically, racial,
economic, and linguistic) led to concentrating instruction in those
tested areas—namely, English language arts and mathematics. In the last
few years, diminished school budgets have caused schools to focus their
scarce resources on subjects that would show up on school-accountability
report cards. Over the years, reading and math have become essential,
while the rest of the curriculum has become disposable.
The arts, social studies, and now even science are not only in decline,
but in many cases absent; and there are consequences. "The arts are a
solution right in front of us for all kinds of issues. Issues of
building empathy in children, critical thinking, building creativity of
course, building community, collaborative skills, thinking outside the
box," said Robin Lithgow, Los Angeles Unified's elementary art
coordinator (Los Angeles Times).
Gov. Jerry Brown's May Revise budget proposed reducing the state's
requirements for graduation from two years of science to one (Los
Angeles Times). The state is obligated to pay districts $250 million a
year for the cost of a second-year science course, but that mandate
hasn't been paid since 2005. The governor's recommendation tries to stop
accruing debt it cannot pay, but critics worry that some cash-strapped
districts, particularly those serving poorer students, will curtail
their science education.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson cautioned,
"It's a huge contradiction that a state that produced such marvels to
the world in technology is not investing enough in science to prepare
students to fill the jobs of the future" (Los Angeles Times).
A result of the state backing off from its funding obligations is that
local communities must try to pick up the slack. On Tuesday, a number of
districts passed parcel taxes to fill holes in gutted curricula. These
taxes are among the least equitable ways to fund public education (a
point we have addressed here and here before). There are, unfortunately,
few options other than this piecemeal, district-by-district approach.
Los Angeles Unified had planned to seek a $298 parcel tax on the
November ballot but decided against it (Los Angeles Daily News, Los
Angeles Times).
Of the 13 school parcel taxes on the June 5 ballot that were designed to
support manageable class sizes, quality programs and arts education,
nine met the two-thirds threshold needed to pass. Even the failed
measures received a majority of the vote, including two losing Santa
Barbara County measures—to protect music and performing arts— that
nevertheless received more than 64-percent support (Ballotpedia,
Thoughts on Public Education).
In Santa Cruz, the community supported extending two parcel taxes for
its elementary and secondary schools. The funds will go toward
counseling and to protect school art and music instruction. "The
community stepping up to fill in things that really are a part of a
comprehensive liberal arts education is something we are very thankful
for," said Santa Cruz City Schools board President Ken Wagman (Santa
Cruz Sentinel).
California struggles on with its hit-or-miss education funding—with
mostly misses than hits. The system is inadequate, inequitable and
inefficient. The recent elections show that Californians want their
schools to be sensibly funded, but state leaders have yet to come up
with a rational, reliable and fair way to accomplish that support.
DEASY FLIP-FLOPS ON HEALTH ED: It’s a Graduation
Requirement, not an Elective …but it’s optional
By smf for 4LAKidsNews
Friday, June 08, 2012 :: In an “informative” (a memo) to the Board of
Education [following] Superintendent Deasy drew a very indistinct line
in his own shifting sand about how important Health Education is.
A month or so ago he proposed – through his surrogate Assistant
Superintendent Jaime Aquino – to eliminate Health Ed as a graduation
requirement for LAUSD, turning the course in into an elective … as part
of a proposal that would essentially eliminate electives.
Much of that proposal proved unpopular – and never received board
support – and the superintendent (as if he’d never read the proposal)
stood up for Health Education:
Lessons taught in health class are too critical to be offered as simply an elective.
"We use this course for our work on many, many issues, like
anti-bullying, healthy nutrition and lifestyle, etc.," he wrote. "Given
this, I feel that it must remain in the plan. LAUSD'S DEASY KEEPS HEALTH
ED AS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION REQUIREMENT - The Daily Breeze | http://bit.ly/LCJHOP
On Wednesday Deasy issued his informative – citing previously
discredited and/or repudiated policies and turning Health Education – a
graduation requirement – into an elective …but it’s administrators,
bureaucrats, bean-counters, charter and partnership and pilot school
operators – who are the electors – not students or parents.
Deasy essentially says:
• It’s OK for the Mayor’s Schools (PLAS) to not require Health Ed in the most impacted schools in LAUSD.
• Ditto for other partners – like MLA Partner Schools/LA’s Promise
operated by Deasy’s partner in the LA Fund for Public Education Megan
Chernin.
• Ditto for Pilot Schools and Charter Schhols.
• And ditto for schools where putting Health Education into the matix
would present too great a hardship upon the master schedule. (In other
words, if it causes too much trouble or expense for adults we really
don’t need heath educated students.)
All of this was apparently done without consulting Health Education professionals, at the staff or state level.
I asked the LAUSD General Counsel if Partnership or Pilot schools could
set different grad requirements and he said he didn’t think so, only the
Board of Ed sets grad requirements. But now, armed with this
informative and previous memos and letters that (mis)interpret
graduation requirements just about anyone can set their own graduation
policy.
ASTERISKS ANYONE?
An LAUSD diploma – and that’s what traditional, pilot, network partner
and affiliated charter schools issue – state that that the graduate has
met ALL the graduations requirements, not some – or two from Column A
and three from Column B. This interpretation of the requirements creates
a two tier diploma system – the very thing this Board of Ed has been
trying to avoid.
And will the superintendent be so generous in waiving the A-G graduation requirements? At one level one almost hopes so.
The Board of Ed needs to determine if an assistant superintendent or the
superintendent himself has the authority to waive graduation
requirements for entire student populations by writing a letter – and
whether the policies in “the former chief academic officer”’s letters
and memos correctly reflect board policy.
HIGHLIGHTS, LOWLIGHTS & THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T
FIT: The Rest (but not necessarily the best) of the Stories from Other
Sources
SUIT CHALLENGING PROP 98 ALLOCATION FORMALLY
REJECTED, REDUCING EDUCATION ‘GUARANTEE’ BY $2 BILLION: By Kimberl... http://bit.ly/KSg4Pl
JUDGE OKs PROP 98 SHELL GAME: More manipulations if November tax fails: By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess | ... http://bit.ly/MmGwvP
L.A. UNIFIED MAKES HEALTH CLASS OPTIONAL: District will allow high schools to offer alternatives as a way of mee... http://bit.ly/MsB0eB
UPDATED+EXPANDED: LAUSD. UTLA PACT: Los Angeles teachers and school district reach pact to spare jobs Los Angel... http://bit.ly/LN5PIs
UTLA REACHES TENTATIVE AGREEMENT TO STABILIZE SCHOOLS BY SAVING JOBS AND RESTORING PROGRAMS + Draft agreement: F... http://bit.ly/LGipHh
TEACHERS UNION AND L.A. SCHOOL DISTRICT REACH PACT TO SAVE JOBS: Teachers take 10 unpaid furlough days, school y... http://bit.ly/MUloD4
HORSEY CARTOON: Geezer and Goliath: David Horsey / Los Angeles Times (June 7, 2012) http://lat.ms/K7T3XL http://bit.ly/LG9tlh
LETTERS: Who should do dental work? + SAT sense +Caring for kids: Letters to the LA Times | http://lat.ms/MqTQCR... http://bit.ly/LlMPBN
DON’T LOWER THE SCIENCE BAR, GOVERNOR: Lifting the state requirement that California high school students take t... http://bit.ly/KQTzdw
Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks …or the Stepford Wives? TRUE NORTH LOGIC: A picture worth 1000 words: smf wrote in... http://bit.ly/K7OI6X
June 28: LUNCHEON TOWN HALL MEETING WITH MOLLY MUNGER: Join Town Hall Los Angeles for an informative lunch meeti... http://bit.ly/MSy7pR
DEASY FLIP-FLOPS ON HEALTH ED: It’s a Graduation Requirement, not an Elective …but it’s optional: By smf for 4LA... http://bit.ly/NX9qWa
A DIRGE FOR TREASURED ARTS PROGRAMS THAT L.A. SCHOOLS PLAN TO CUT: We're headed for a day when public education ... http://bit.ly/NX9qW3
CALIFORNIA BUDGET PROPOSAL WOULD END A SCIENCE REQUIREMENT: Under Gov. Jerry Brown's revised budget proposal, a ... http://bit.ly/M88QSB
JUDGE DELAYS RULING ON SUIT TARGETING LAUSD TEACHER EVALUATIONS: The litigation would force L.A. Unified to use ... http://bit.ly/MFkZnY
L.A. UNIFIED TO POSTPONE PARCEL-TAX VOTE: -- Howard Blume, LA Times | http://lat.ms/NIRXAF Photo: Los Angeles... http://bit.ly/M85HSJ
Report: MORE PRE-K PROGRAMS NEEDED FOR DUAL-LANGUAGE LEARNERS: by Lesli A. Maxwell, Education Week's blogs > Lea... http://bit.ly/MFbODZ
CALIFORNIA CUTS THREATEN THE STATUS OF UNIVERSITIES: By JENNIFER MEDINA, The New York Times | http://nyti.ms/... http://bit.ly/JUzzWK
CTE/Linked Learning/Multiple Pathways: FINANCE REFORM WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY COULD DEVASTATE CAREER TECH: By Jac... http://bit.ly/MBxxg2
ELECTION POLITICS SIDELINE BUDGET TALKS, AT LEAST FOR NOW. Budget activity to pick up quickly later this week …w... http://bit.ly/MBxxfZ
CALENDAR CLOSES IN ON KEY ED BILLS, INCLUDING TRANSIT MONEY PROTECTION: By Kimberly Beltran, SI&A Cabinet Report... http://bit.ly/M5SwBD
UTLA PRESIDENT SAYS UNION IS READY TO 'BARGAIN TEACHER EVALUATION': By Tami Abdollah, Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC h... http://bit.ly/LnQZtt
L.A. SCHOOLS TO REVIEW PAST 40 YEARS OF TEACHER DISCIPLINE CASES IN MISCONDUCT CRISIS: By Michael Martinez and J... http://bit.ly/LnPgo5
Monica & Co are at it again: FIGHT PRIVATIZER PLAN TO SUBVERT DEMOCRATIC ENDORSEMENT IN SCHOOL BOARD RACE: by An... http://bit.ly/M1Da1b
MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA WILL ANNOUNCE $750,000 INVESTMENT IN LOCAL EDUCATION BY ONEWEST BANK: MAYOR ANTONIO R. VILLAR... http://bit.ly/L3tg11
VALUE-ADDLED TEACHER EVALUATIONS BASED ON STUDENT TEST SCORES: A long time 4LAKids Reader – and retired LAUSD pr... http://bit.ly/M6jtZn
Address or Answer your LAUSD Budget Questions: COMMUNITY BUDGET FORUM TONIGHT!: …it’s interesting that the Sup... http://bit.ly/LiwkmK
Departing teacher pleads: 'KEEP THE PLAY IN KINDERGARTEN': After 27 years, Fairmeadow teacher says 'enough' to t... http://bit.ly/NABrSZ
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ADDRESSED OR ANSWERED? @DrDeasyLAUSD: Come to Marshall HS TONIGHT @6pm
for updates & have your 2012-2013 budget questions+concerns
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EVENTS: Coming up next week...
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• 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
Bennett.Kayser@lausd.net • 213-241-5555
Marguerite.LaMotte@lausd.net • 213-241-6382
Nury.Martinez@lausd.net • 213-241-6388
Richard.Vladovic@lausd.net • 213-241-6385
Steve.Zimmer@lausd.net • 213-241-6387
...or your city councilperson, mayor, the governor, member of congress,
senator - or the president. Tell them what you really think! • 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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