Weekly Recap for July 25 - 31, 2005:
School Advisory Panel Named Villaraigosa appoints a board of educators and experts to focus on improving L.A. Unified. By Richard Fausset/Los Angeles Times (Saturday)
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa introduced a group of teachers, principals and education experts Friday who will advise him on education reform, one […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, July 29, 2005:
School Board Backs Bond Issue L.A. Unified trustees vote to put the $4-billion measure on November’s ballot. Most of the funds would aid the building and repair project. By Joel Rubin/Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Board of Education unanimously agreed Thursday to ask voters to […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, July 28, 2005:
Sparks Fly Over District Bonds Plan L.A. school board members split on the measure’s fall timing and use of its revenue. Two members walk out, delaying action to today. By Joel Rubin/Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Board of Education tangled Wednesday over a nearly $4-billion bond […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, July 27, 2005:
Teacher makes it to Capitol 500-mile walk leads to Arnold By Harrison Sheppard/Los Angeles Daily NewsSACRAMENTO — It took about three months of phone calls and a 500-mile trek, but Ventura teacher Chip Fraser managed Tuesday to achieve his goal: a meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, July 26, 2005:
Dubya’s school reforms pay off Column by Debra J. Saunders/San Francisco Chronicle
FOR YEARS, nothing helped. America’s children weren’t reading as well as they should. An achievement gap showed black and Latino students trailing behind their white counterparts in reading and math. Educators and politicians agreed Something […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, July 25, 2005:
3 teachers to get performance bonuses By Karen Maeshiro/Los Angeles Daily News
LANCASTER — Three Lancaster School District teachers will each receive $5,000 for earning their profession’s highest standard and working at schools whose pupils perform poorly on standardized tests. Teachers Ed Esse, Suzann Rainone, and […]
Weekly Recap for July 18- 24, 2005:
Should exit exam apply equally to all students? Failing grade means no college for dyslexic senior By Amy Hilvers/Bakersfield Californian (Friday)
He can’t tell the difference between the words tourist and terrorist. Ron Marker is in the middle of the high school exit exam. Passing is the key to […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, July 22, 2005
Should exit exam apply equally to all students?
Failing grade means no college for dyslexic
senior
By Amy Hilvers/Bakersfield Californian
He […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, July 21,
2005:
Red tape stymies schools
TEACHING: Inland districts say they lost
millions of dollars in a bureaucratic dispute.
[…]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday,
July 20, 2005:
The coming school accountability train wreck
Column by Peter Schrag/Sacramento Bee
Before summer’s end, Californians will get more troubling news about their
schools. Once again, schools that a lot of communities […]