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MiSiS: WE TRIED TO TELL YOU + ANOTHER TANGLED WEB |
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Letters to the Editor: MORE FALLOUT FROM THE iPAD PROBLEM |
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L.A. CANCELS IPADS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS PROGRAM: A FAILURE OF VISION, NOT TECHNOLOGY + smf’s 2¢ |
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BULLYING ARTS EDUCATION |
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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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THE OVAL OFFICE: Wednesday, March 21, 1973 - 10:12am
(Counsel to the President) JOHN DEAN: I think that there's no doubt
about the seriousness of the problem we've got. We have a cancer
within-close to the presidency, that's growing. It's growing daily. It's
compounding. It grows geometrically now, because it compounds itself.
That'll be clear as I explain, you know, some of the details of why it
is, and it basically is because (1) we're being blackmailed; (2) people
are going to start perjuring themselves very quickly that have not had
to perjure themselves to protect other people and the like. And that is
just . . . and there is no assurance…
PRESIDENT NIXON: That it won't bust.
DEAN: That that won't bust.
PRESIDENT NIXON: True.
DEAN: So let me give you the sort of basic facts, talking first about
the Watergate, and then about Segretti, and about some of the peripheral
items that have come up.
First of all, on the Watergate: How did it all start? Where did it start?
______________
The cancer on the presidency revelation wasn’t the end of Nixon; the
public disclosure of the diagnosis by John Dean and the confirmation on
the tapes didn’t do him in either. Nixon was undone on or before June
23rd 1972 when decided to tough it out and deny what had been, up ‘till
the moment he heard about it: A second rate burglary. A burglary so
second-rate it could never have risen to the level of a high crime or
misdemeanor without help.
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THE OVAL OFFICE: Friday, June 23, 1972 - 10:04am
BOB HALDEMAN (Chief-of-staff): —on the investigation, you know, the
Democratic break-in thing, we’re back in the problem area because the
FBI is not under control because [acting FBI Director L. Patrick] Gray
doesn’t exactly know how to control them. And they have—their
investigation is now leading into some productive areas, because they’ve
been able to trace the money, not through the money itself, but through
the bank, you know, sources—the banker himself. And it goes in some
directions we don’t want it to go. …..
PRESIDENT NIXON: That’s right.
HALDEMAN: …. But the way to handle this now is for us to have [CIA
Deputy director Vernon] Walters call Pat Gray and just say, “Stay the
hell out of this. This is—there’s some business here we don’t want you
going any further on.” That’s not an unusual development.
PRESIDENT NIXON: Mm-hmm.
HALDEMAN: And that would take care of it.
PRESIDENT NIXON: What’s the matter with Pat Gray? You mean he doesn’t want to?
HALDEMAN: Pat does want to. He doesn’t know how to, and he doesn’t have
any basis for doing it. Given this, he will then have the basis. He’ll
call [Deputy FBI Director] Mark Felt in, and the two of them—and Mark
Felt wants to cooperate because he’s ambitious.
PRESIDENT NIXON: Yeah. Yeah.
HALDEMAN: He’ll call them in and say, “We’ve gotten a signal from across
the river to put the hold on this.” And that’ll fit rather well because
the FBI agents who are working the case, at this point, feel that’s
what it is: [that] this is CIA.
____________
This is the famous “smoking gun”. When the burglary turns into high
crime. And, to go all Shakespearean: When the comedy turns tragic and
the fatal flaw in the perfect plot is presaged – for Mark Felt isn’t
just ambitious, he’s the mother-of-all undisclosed sources. He is “Deep
Throat”.
THE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS alleged at LAUSD were never minor. The
appearances are that a public contract involving hundreds of millions of
dollars between the second largest school district in the nation, the
world’s most valuable brand and the biggest publisher in the world was
rigged. Bid rigging is a federal felony criminal offense under Section 1
of the Sherman Act.
This is federal grand jury stuff. This is Mike Wallace Sixty Minutes stuff.
Mixing our political metaphors: Are LAUSD and Apple and Pearson “too big
to fail?” The question is moot – no matter what there will be an
LAUSD, Apple and Pearson after the dust clears. Because public
bureaucracies and multinational corporations are not persons; they are
people. And human nature being human nature, some people misbehave.
If they say -
Why, why, tell 'em that is human nature
Why, why, does he do me that way?
But if John E. Deasy, Ph.D. is too big to fall than the cult of
no-perceptible-personality trumps all - and the hammer that that woman
threw in the Macintosh Super Bowl commercial back in 1984 missed Big
Brother …and missed the mark. Completely.
The liberation has not been televised. Return to your classrooms+cubicles and await further instructions.
¡Onward/Adelante! - smf
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Nixon tapes:
• Cancer on the presidency: http://bit.ly/1pcZbfZ
• Smoking gun: http://bit.ly/1sR10mK
●●PS: I was speaking Saturday with my 5th grader niece, who attends an
LAUSD school that need not be named. She is a gifted child - as are they
all - and I asked her why she had Friday off. She didn't know.
Friday was the day LAUSD chooses to observe Admission Day (The actual day is Sept. 9th - a week from Tuesday!)
Fifth Grade is focused on California History ...one would think...
It was The Teachable Moment: I explained to her the meaning of Admission
Day. I also explained to her the give-and-take of union contract
negotiations and the wonderfulness of floating holidays. Both of us
accepted that the excuse for Friday being a pupil free day probably had
more to do with the later than the former.
MiSiS: WE TRIED TO TELL YOU + ANOTHER TANGLED WEB
From the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles Weekly Update for the week of Sept 1 | http://bit.ly/JidN0H
28 Aug 2014 :: MiSiS debacle, iPad investigation, mounting teacher
unrest, student demonstrations—can this year’s school opening get any
worse for LAUSD? In what is being called one of the most awful openings
ever, the District is taking a pounding from the media across the nation
while students, administrators, staff and teachers are suffering from
overwork caused by the mandatory implementation of MiSiS which has led
to impossibly large classes, thousands of students misprogrammed,
delayed enrollments, uncertain norm counts, major course conflicts and
even a peaceful student sit-in.
Last week’s Update provided comments from AALA members around the
District who were trying to work with the new multimillion dollar
computer system. AALA asked for accountability, especially since AALA
President Dr. Judith Perez and Administrator Dan Isaacs had spent
countless hours from March until June trying to get the District’s ITD
team to respond to concerns that administrators and teachers were
raising about the pilot implementation of MiSiS. We don’t want to have
to say, “I told you so,” but…reviewing past copies of Update will show
multiple issues that were raised last spring regarding MiSiS. Even with
the assurances everyone received that the system would be ready for the
new school year, most school-site administrators and teachers were wary.
Our AALA committee asked for a delay in the implementation, or at least
for a back-up plan, which we never saw.
We cannot begin to tell you the countless numbers of calls that have
come into AALA about this catastrophe. Both elementary and secondary
schools have had a particularly stressful opening this year. Basic
student information is being incorrectly reflected in the system, with
wrong birth dates and juxtaposed middle and last names. Enrollment
counts are nowhere near accurate. We know that as of August 25, 2014,
the MiSiS enrollment count was about 50,000 students short of the
projection from E-cast. Usually the range of error is only 5,000 – 7,000
students. That means there are at least 45,000 students on our campuses
for whom the District cannot account. One elementary school showed an
enrollment of 11,000, while another had zero. It also means that
administrators and staff are going to be even more overworked trying to
do a hand count of the number of students enrolled in the schools. Norm
day is rapidly approaching and it looks like we are going to go back to
the time when
the trusty adding machine, coupled with pencil and paper, were used to
tally each teacher’s roster.
We would like to share with you what Robert Storaker (Cleveland HS),
Alan Warhaftig (Fairfax HS) and Jay Gehringer (North Hollywood HS) find
is still missing or incomplete in this system. All three are UTLA
members who are key end users and were part of the group organized by
AALA that met with ITD multiple times last spring in an effort to
prevent exactly what is happening.
NEEDS:
1. Teacher absence schedule (passwords for subs and covering teachers).
2. More features in the CL23 student schedule summary reports (CL23,2 and CL23,3 equivalents).
3. Counselors’ names attached to student records.
4. Reports that can be printed by counselor (CL23, CL22, TR60).
5. TR04 equivalent.
6. Ability to update transcripts and print transcripts with accurate information.
7. Athletic groups correct at every high school; g.p.a. validation; ability to print official athletic team reports.
8. Remove all barriers between magnet schools and regular schools on the
same campus. Many reports have to be run twice under two user roles to
get the regular and magnet school data on the same report.
9. For the Help Desk to have answers, clear guidelines, clear instructions for end users and shorter response times.
10. More job aids.
11. More targeted communication to end users.
12. Adding a student to a group is not working from different parts of the system.
13. Need MABU functionality for a class, group, student, other attribute.
14. Blackboard Connect for teachers must be updated; too few calls being made.
15. Delete duplicate classes for students.
16. PSA Counselor access to MiSiS.
Grading and report cards are rapidly approaching in secondary schools.
Are the grades by class feature and all the reports (verifications,
missing grades, report cards) ready and working? Will report cards have
only enrolled classes on them? Will they print? Do schools need to set
the grade configuration? In addition to answers to these questions,
schools need:
1. Accurate report cards without duplicate classes.
2. Report cards that fit on one page.
3. Report cards that can be sorted by 1st, 2nd or homeroom periods when printed.
4. Working verification rosters.
5. Ability to enter grades without issues.
6. Ability to export grades seamlessly between gradebooks.
7. Ability to tell which teachers haven't submitted grades at a given time (missing marks report).
Matt Hill, Chief Strategy Officer, while speaking before the Board of
Education on August 26, 2014, said of MiSiS, “This was not what we
expected; it’s not what our students deserve. We knew there’d be some
issues, but not of this magnitude.” Dan Isaacs and Judith Perez also
spoke with him and were provided this update:
The system is reportedly stable throughout the District, albeit issues
with speed remain. The ITD team is now targeting specific schools that
need assistance and sending support to them. The following “bugs” have
been fixed:
• Schools will be able to correct start and end dates in Sections Editor.
• Performance on Attendance for School Administrators has improved.
• The Attendance screen will load quicker.
• The Office Manager now has the ability to delete a record in the Attendance Category screen.
• On the Identifying Information screen, either preferred name or legal name will be required, not both.
• All students without enrollment data will no longer be displayed as Currently Enrolled in the Quick Enrollment Search screen.
• Additional Permit types/options are now added (e.g., Charter Opt Out, Charter School, Exception, Overcrowded Permit).
• The Basic Skill Assessment Section for RFEP eligibility will check for
a score of 3 or 4, not 5 for the Writing Periodic Assessment.
• English Learner entry fields are now functioning for Kindergarten students.
Not to be critical, but this sounds like tinkering around the edges of
the central problems identified by AALA's MiSiS Committee. Strange, how
the bugs that have been fixed, have minimal or no relationship to the
items that school-site personnel say they need. With Norm Day and 5-week
Progress Reports rapidly approaching, someone needs to do something
radicallike listen to those in the field. We tried to tell you…
ANOTHER TANGLED WEB
The process used to negotiate with Apple, Inc., and Pearson PLC for the
Common Core Technology Project (CCTP) which resulted in a billion dollar
commitment to purchase obsolescent iPads and incomplete curricula has
finally caught the attention of the public. While rumors and innuendo
abound about the tangled web that surrounds the Apple and Pearson
contracts, some indisputable facts remain:
• Former Deputy Superintendent Jaime Aquino worked for a Pearson
affiliate before become Deputy Superintendent of Instruction in LAUSD.
District ethics rules required him to refrain from any involvement in a
Pearson contract for the first year following his hiring. This did not
occur.
• Superintendent John Deasy owned Apple stock prior to the contract being signed.
• John Deasy was a spokesperson for using Apple technology in schools prior to the contract being signed.
• Guidelines for winning the contract were tailored to the products of the winners of the contracts.
• Changes to the bidding rules were made after most of the competition was eliminated.
• The District contracted with Pearson to pay full price for a curriculum that had not yet been developed.
• Numerous e-mails exist between Deasy, Aquino and Apple and Pearson executives prior to the awarding of the contracts.
• The L.A. County District Attorney’s office reviewed an earlier LAUSD
Inspector General’s report and determined that no criminal charges were
warranted.
• Dr. Deasy has halted the current contract with Apple and begun a new Request for Proposal process.
The suspension of the Apple contract just raises more questions, for
instance, can one legally stop a binding contract at midpoint? Is this
grounds for breach of contract? We hope it doesn’t result in another
million dollar settlement! As educators, it seems to us that the
District handled this technology backwards. The first question that
should have been asked is, "What do students need to learn and do,
starting when?" The second is, "What does mastery look like?" Further,
"What is the curriculum; What projects are students expected to complete
at what grade levels; What professional development is provided to
teachers and administrators; What is the timeline. . .?" Instead, LAUSD
started with purchase of hardware with no clarity about its impact on
student learning, no goals beyond using it for testing and a misguided
need to hurry, hurry, hurry.
Consequently, we find ourselves in this almost surreal situation, with a
partial rollout, a second round of bidding, unanswered questions,
Common Core testing looming, no timeline for completion, etc. We can
only hope that as time marches on and more information unfolds, this web
will be untangled and the CCTP can move forward in a positive manner
with decisions being made to benefit students, not adults.
Letters to the Editor: MORE FALLOUT FROM THE iPAD PROBLEM
Letters to the editor of the Los Angeles Times |http://lat.ms/1Cd8nv7
Aug 29, 2014
To the editor: Every new detail about the iPad debacle underscores Supt.
John Deasy’s ineptitude and disrespect for teachers, students and
schools. ( "Calls mount for new LAUSD inquiry," Aug. 27, and “Can Supt.
Deasy survive iPad fiasco?” Column, Aug. 28)
Of course iPads are missing and huge amounts of funds wasted. They were
thrown at overcrowded, understaffed, overstressed and crumbling schools.
Now L.A. Unified will be indefinitely tied up with this deplorable
scandal, more investigations, and then on to the next billion-dollar
money pit.
We need a competent leader who actually listens to and supports
educators while prioritizing safe, well-maintained schools and enriching
curriculum. Why is that such a pipe dream?
Wendy Blais, North Hills
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To the editor: I am writing to express my appreciation toward The Times’
reporters and investigators for calling into question the legitimacy of
L.A. Unified’s $1-billion iPad program.
As a public high school teacher for the district, I urge you to continue to shed light on the situation.
The Times must maintain its integrity by offering equal weight to both
sides of every issue, and it must work to expose corruption and
injustice in California’s public and private institutions for public
benefit. Amid layoffs, underfunded school sites and lack of school
supplies, and a stagnation in teacher salary, it is imperative this
story should continue to be reported on extensively.
Susan Spica, Winnetka
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To the editor: The decision, and subsequent process to purchase iPads
for every district student, was a horrible idea from the start. If Deasy
really wants to level the playing field and allow access for our
less-fortunate students to a rich and meaningful education and vital
life experiences, I suggest filling every school with a well-rounded
arts program. That would increase creativity and intelligence, rather
than sap it, as these gadgets in the hands of adolescents often do.
Bradley Greer, Altadena
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To the editor: Who suffers the most from this fiasco? Students,
children, kids who need what this district has failed to provide.
Only Luddites claim that students have enough experience with technology
in their lives. In fact, many students are not proficient with today’s
technologies in ways that provide access to college, professions and
jobs. The need is real.
But Deasy, in his sweeping arrogance, believed that he could wave a wand
and look like a magical provider, while in reality he was paving the
corporate avenues to the district coffers so prominent in his vision of
education.
Lynne Culp, Van Nuys
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To the editor: Executives of the L.A. school system apparently steered a
billion-dollar contract to a former employer and big business, likely
resulting in an incredible loss of funds from a botched deal.
Actually, it’s small businesses that create the greatest number of jobs
in our country and are the basic framework of our free-enterprise
system.
But if small businesses are excluded from contracting opportunities, we as taxpayers and as citizens suffer.
We must stop preferential treatment, and we must demand full disclosure
and transparency in the disbursement of government funds. People have a
right to know where their money is going.
Raymond J. Bishop, Tarzana
The writer is chairman of the Los Angeles County Small Business Commission.
L.A. CANCELS IPADS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS PROGRAM: A FAILURE OF VISION, NOT TECHNOLOGY + smf’s 2¢
By Bradley Chambers in MacWorld | http://bit.ly/1qXyCAU
Aug 28, 2014 11:52 AM :: When Apple landed a $30 million iPad contract
with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in 2013, it was
heralded as a big win for the company—after all, LAUSD is the
second-largest school district in the country. But the deal apparently
didn’t earn straight As: Earlier this week, the district announced it
was canceling its contract with the iPad maker.
According to the L.A. Times, the reason behind the cancelation was at
least partially political, as “the superintendent and his top deputy had
especially close ties to executives of Apple, maker of the iPad, and
Pearson, the company that is providing the curriculum on the devices.”
But an LAUSD report also found “major problems with the process and the
implementation.”
The latter charges have been widely used as evidence that iPads were
poorly suited for LAUSD—some have gone so far as to use them to
criticize such programs in general. But many of the problems encountered
in L.A. were due to a combination of Apple’s previously poor
large-scale-deployment tools and LAUSD’s failure to follow Apple’s
deployment guidelines.
Schools,
WHEN A HACK IS NOT A HACK
Those failures had a rather public face: In the fall of 2013, news
outlets reported that the iPads deployed in L.A. schools had been
hacked. Though the term “hacked” was a misleading description of what
actually happened, the story nevertheless gained traction.
The “hack” in question involved some students going into the iPad’s
Settings app and removing the security profile installed by the
district’s IT department. At the time, the only way to prevent this was
to set each iPad up as a supervised device, a procedure that required a
physical connection and an app called Apple Configurator. Was it
feasible for LAUSD to perform a wired configuration procedure for
thousands of devices? Probably not. Still, this wasn’t so much a failure
of the iPad as it was the LAUSD not following Apple’s specified
deployment guidelines.
Since that time, things have changed dramatically in terms of Apple’s
support for large-scale deployments. By taking advantage of the Device
Enrollment Program (DEP), schools can set their iPads up for a mobile
device management (MDM) server out of the box, “securing” the
tablets—and subsequently managing them—without having to physically
connect to each of them. (In order to be enrolled in the DEP, schools
must purchase those iPads directly from Apple. Thus, "bring your own
devices" iPads can't be supervised over the air.)
Ahead of the class
Indeed, the apparent failure of LAUSD’s iPad program changes little in
terms of best practices for future such deployments. Apple has committed
to making the iPad simple to deploy and manage for all types of
organizations—between the DEP and Apple’s managed-distibution
app-purchasing model, Apple has taken all of the guesswork out of both
small- and large-scale deployments.
Between DEP and managed distribution for apps, an IT staff can now place
an order for 100,000 iPads and not even need to unbox them before
distribution. Once a student connects the iPad to Wi-Fi, the tablet will
automatically download the proper security-configuration profiles and
be supervised over the air. IT administrators can even push and remove
apps and various other configuration profiles remotely, using a central
management system.
And keep in mind that the iPad is just over four years old—we’ve gone
from basically no deployment tools to some very mature and powerful
systems in just a few years. And Apple has also continued to add APIs
for MDM vendors to implement with each version of iOS.
At the end of the day, LAUSD was simply a year too early for the type of
easy deployment the district wanted—and it didn’t have an adequate
plan, given the tools available at the time.
The vision thing
With iPad deployments, the first step to a successful project is proper
vision. I co-host a podcast called Out of School with educator and
Macworld contributor Fraser Speirs where we dive into these topics on a
weekly basis. Earlier this year, we did a 15-week series where we walked
listeners through the necessary steps for a successful deployment. But
the key point is this: We didn’t start with the best Wi-Fi system or the
best firewall—rather, we started with vision and leadership.
The failure of LAUSD’s iPad program isn’t that iPads (or any other
devices the district may have chosen) weren’t a good fit. If there’s
blame to be placed, it starts at the top. Deployments are only as good
as the vision set forth before a Wi-Fi system or even a type of device
is selected. If a school district isn’t going to follow Apple’s
guidelines, it shouldn’t expect a successful project.
Apple does a lot of the legwork here by providing both the iPads and
detailed guidelines for deployment. And other school districts around
the world have documented their successes and failures. So when it comes
to learning about best practices for deploying these devices in
schools, it’s a simple matter of those in charge doing their homework.
●● smf’s 2¢: A frequent 4LAKids correspondent argues that “those in
charge” often don’t do their homework. They didn’t do their homework
here. They didn’t do their homework on MiSiS, They didn’t do their
homework on preparing the LAUSD Local Control Accountability Plan and
budget. They didn’t do much homework in only putting nine hours of
study into their Ph.D.
All have come back to haunt him.
BULLYING ARTS EDUCATION
By Jessica Kehinde Ngo, from Rhyme and Reason: The LA Times readers' best opinionated poems | http://lat.ms/1tQ6a4W
Tell them illustrating fairy tales
is for toddlers
and to leave it on the preschool playground
smash their Play-Doh sculptures
saying that formulas
and test scores matter more
take away choir and marching band
protesting that rhymes and beats
are for begging street performers
but don't then be surprised
if when you look into the eyes of our teenagers
you see a desert, or worse yet, nothing at all
- Jessica Kehinde Ngo teaches writing at Otis College of Art & Design and Pepperdine University.
HIGHLIGHTS, LOWLIGHTS & THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T
FIT: The Rest (but not necessarily the best) of the Stories from Other
Sources
Editorial: CLASSROOMS KEY BATTLEFIELDS IN THE WAR ON POVERTY | http://bit.ly/1qS1JBF
EARLY CHILDHOOD ED GETS FUNDING BOOST: LAUSD will restore funding for early childhood education + smf’s 2¢ http://bit.ly/1rHokXX
Vergara: CALIFORNIA TO APPEAL TEACHER TENURE RULING | http://bit.ly/1tjMzLQ
Sandy Banks: THE L.A. UNIFIED IPAD FIASCO IS A REBUKE OF SUPT. JOHN DEASY'S SINGLE-MINDED WAY OF DOING BUSINESS | |http://bit.ly/1tjL2W4
Letters to the Editor: MORE FALLOUT FROM THE iPAD PROBLEM | http://bit.ly/1B4CO5o
IPadGate: EX-LAUSD OFFICIAL DENIES STEERING CONTRACT TO FORMER EMPLOYER, Aquino: Contract was 'by the book' | http://bit.ly/1Cd2WME
NEWSMEDIA PUBLISHES SELECTED LAUSD/APPLE/PEARSON EMAILS ON IPAD PROGRAM :: KPCC: http://bit.ly/1qOlvho | L.A.Times: http://bit.ly/1pUiuAc
View summary
iPadGate: OFFICIALS ON BID COMMITTEE GOT FREE TABLETS, RESORT TRIPS + smf’s 2¢ | http://bit.ly/1peSzxH
MIA: LAUSD CAN'T ACCOUNT FOR $2 MILLION IN COMPUTERS | http://lat.ms/1pUb3ZQ :: 45,000 STUDENTS MISSING FROM MISIS | http://bit.ly/1qOB7Fy
View summary
iPadGate: ARE JOHN DEASY’S DAYS NUMBERED? They should be after cozy iPad deal http://bit.ly/1lyhFx2
Cartoon: JOHNNY APPLESEED v.2.0 | http://bit.ly/1qiy875
iPadGate: EMAILS PROMPT LA SCHOOLS’ INSPECTOR GENERAL TO REOPEN iPAD PROBE | http://bit.ly/1q6slmn
DEASY DROPS THE iPADS ...but that doesn't solve the problem LA Times Editorial August 26, 2014 After two inves… http://twishort.com/pbogc
iPadGate: Three little words overheard at LAUSD's Beaudry HQ: "FEDERAL GRAND JURY"
FOR LAUSD SCHOOL BOARD A NEW YEAR, BUT OLD PROBLEMS | http://bit.ly/1tVkVSi
3-min NPR audio: What you need to know about #LAUSD's iPad controversy http://n.pr/1qwM26H by @AnnieGilbertson @KPCC
IPadGate updated: LA SCHOOLS’ SUPERINTENDENT FACES SCHOOL BOARD AFTER DAYS OF QUESTIONS ON iPAD PLAN | http://bit.ly/1vmA6I6
iPadGate/The Ratliff Report: THE CHAIR'S REPORT OF THE AD HOC COMMON CORE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE IS AVAILABLE HERE: http://bit.ly/1tD0SK2
LA Daily News on iPadGate: DEASY SHOOTS HIS iPAD OUT (2 stories) | http://bit.ly/1qKKWk2
Denial is the longest river: LAUSD SUPERINTENDENT DEASY SAYS HE IS NOT SCRAPPING DISTRICT’S $1 BILLION iPAD PROGRAM | http://bit.ly/1tc6iwO
REV. JESSE JACKSON SWEARS IN LAUSD BOARD MEMBER GEORGE McKENNA | http://bit.ly/1pGOsQc
iPadGate: "The Aquino email is the smoking gun..." Read: http://tl.gd/n_1s6bdo9
iPadGate: CALLS GROW FOR WIDER INQUIRY INTO L.A. UNIFIED iPAD PROJECT | http://bit.ly/VQyW7V
Radio chat: STAKEHOLDERS REACT TO LAUSD CANCELLING iPAD CONTRACT | http://bit.ly/1qgTzp6
iPadGate: Deasy's pullback is a defining moment in his tenure... Read: http://tl.gd/n_1s6b6sj
Steve Lopez: CAN DEASY SURVIVE LAUSD’s iPAD FIASCO? | http://bit.ly/auDNT3
The story goes national/from National Public Radio: THE LAUSD/APPLE/PEARSON iPAD SCANDAL – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW http://bit.ly/1qgNKIl
AirTalk w/Larry Mantle at 11:05 on KPCC 89.3 re: LAUSD iPads is a call in show. So call in!
iPadGate: Larry Mantle of @KPCC 89.3 AirTalk will discuss current
developments in the LAUSD/Apple/Pearson brouhaha this AM at 11 o'clock
iPadGate Updated: LA SCHOOLS CANCEL iPAD CONTRACTS AFTER KPCC PUBLISHES INTERNAL EMAILS | http://bit.ly/1BYEHlp
iPadGate: PUBLISHING GIANT PEARSON SAYS LA SCHOOL OFFICIALS’ EMAILS PART OF PILOT PROJECT | http://bit.ly/1viDUKr
iPadGate: DEASY DISPUTES LATIMES STORY THAT APPLE CONTRACT WAS "CANCELLED" Read: http://tl.gd/n_1s64ftp
Annie Gilbertson - who broke the IPadGate hidden emails story - will be on the radio this AM: 7:30 KPCC 89.3
iPadGate: DEASY CANCELLED iPAD PROGRAM AFTER RECORDS SHOWED TIES TO VENDORS | http://bit.ly/1APD2Nv
The MiSiS CriSiS: JEFFERSON HIGH STUDENTS SIT IN AND WALK OUT IN PROTEST (6 stories) | http://bit.ly/YVVjeg
iPadGate: LAUSD/Apple/Pearson Contract Thrown Under the Bus pic.twitter.com/Shoh0yvTxw
iPadGate: DEASY ADANDONS LAUSD/APPLE/PEARSON CONTRACT | http://bit.ly/1omgWJK
4LAKids on: today's L.A. Times article: LAUSD OFFICIALS HAD CLOSE TIES WITH APPLE, PEARSON EXECS, RECORDS SHOW | http://bit.ly/1mKqY7P
A Clockwork iPad: FROM THE INTERSECTION OF BALDERDASH AND IMPLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY | http://bit.ly/1mKqY7P
iPadGate: LAUSD officials and Apple & Pearson execs began discussing effort 2 years before it was put out for bid | http://bit.ly/1rvapUU
iPadGate: LAUSD OFFICIALS HAD CLOSE TIES WITH APPLE, PEARSON EXECS, RECORDS SHOW | http://bit.ly/1rvapUU
iPADDED IN LAUSD: The smoking gun of the done deal. What’s next? | http://bit.ly/1mIqYoW
TIMELINE: iPad talks between LAUSD, Pearson and Apple before the bidding
Done-dealing from the bottom of the deck - LAUSD’s iPAD PROJECT: HOW IT STARTED …BEFORE THE BIDDING BEGAN | http://bit.ly/1qGlBYq
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
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• LAUSD FACILITIES COMMUNITY OUTREACH CALENDAR:
http://www.laschools.org/happenings/
Phone: 213-241.8700
What can YOU do?
• E-mail, call or write your school board member:
Tamar.Galatzan@lausd.net • 213-241-6386
Monica.Garcia@lausd.net • 213-241-6180
Bennett.Kayser@lausd.net • 213-241-5555
Marguerite.LaMotte@lausd.net • 213-241-6382
Monica.Ratliff@lausd.net • 213-241-6388
Richard.Vladovic@lausd.net • 213-241-6385
Steve.Zimmer@lausd.net • 213-241-6387
...or your city councilperson, mayor, the governor, member of congress,
senator - or the president. Tell them what you really think! • Find
your state legislator based on your home address. Just go to: http://bit.ly/dqFdq2 • There are 26 mayors and five county supervisors representing jurisdictions within LAUSD, the mayor of LA can be reached at mayor@lacity.org • 213.978.0600
• Call or e-mail Governor Brown: 213-897-0322 e-mail: http://www.govmail.ca.gov/
• Open the dialogue. Write a letter to the editor. Circulate these
thoughts. Talk to the principal and teachers at your local school.
• Speak with your friends, neighbors and coworkers. Stay on top of education issues. Don't take my word for it!
• Get involved at your neighborhood school. Join your PTA. Serve on a School Site Council. Be there for a child.
• If you are eligible to become a citizen, BECOME ONE.
• If you a a citizen, REGISTER TO VOTE.
• If you are registered, VOTE LIKE THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT. THEY DO!.
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