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Editorial: A teachable moment
The role of test scores in evaluating teachers is a prickly and complicated issue, which is why California has been avoiding the conversation for so long. Fortunately, that procrastination is no longer possible after The Times took the bold step of...Tags: Examinations, Politics, Teaching and Learning, Justice System, Elections
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Union stages protest against Times
Hundreds of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers rallied in front of The Times on Tuesday evening, protesting what they said was unfair reporting in recent articles that used a statistical analysis to rank the performance of thousands of...Tags: Examinations, Politics, Teaching and Learning, Elections, Newspaper and Magazine
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L.A. schools chief vows to use evaluation data to help teachers
L.A. NOWL.A. schools chief Ramon C. Cortines talked about revamping teacher evaluations as a tool for helping teachers improve as part of his final, annual address to administrators Wednesday morning at Hollywood High School. Overall, the 30-minute speech... -
L.A. Unified and six other districts will pursue reforms even without federal money
L.A. NOWA group of seven school districts, including Los Angeles Unified, announced Monday that they would move ahead with reform plans developed for the recent federal Race to the Top school-reform grant competition. In August, California lost that bidâand... -
Christine O'Donnell-Chris Coons debate: Full transcript
Top of the TicketEvery debate word between Republican Christine O'Donnell and Democrat Chris Coons -- and there were a lot of them.... -
State education officials decry funding veto
L.A. NOWOfficials with the state Department of Education said Monday that a veto of $6.8 million in state funding for a student data tracking system could hurt California's compliance with federal regulations and make it difficult to track dropouts. Earlier this.... -
Big Oil goes to college: a conflict of interest?
GreenspaceHave hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from major oil companies compromised the ethics of energy research at such institutions as UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Stanford? That's what Jennifer Washburn, a longtime critic of academic conflicts of... -
Meet L.A.'s most effective teachers -- and find out how your child's teacher performs
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles Unified School District has hundreds of Jaime Escalantes -- teachers who preside over remarkable successes, year after year, often against incredible odds, according to a Times analysis. But nobody is making a film about them. Most are....... -
School board approves value-added contract
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles Board of Education unanimously approved a contract Tuesday with a company that will analyze teachers' effectiveness in raising students' standardized test scores. The agreement with the University of Wisconsin Value Added Research Center,... -
Local charter school accused in audit of alleged misappropriation of $2.7 million
L.A. NOWThe former principal of a San Fernando Valley charter school allegedly misappropriated $1.6 million, according to an audit released Monday by the inspector generalâs office of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Auditors also have questioned more... -
Maywood Elementary instructor wins $25,000 prize for teaching prowess
L.A. NOWAn elementary school teacher in Los Angeles was surprised Wednesday morning with a no-strings-attached $25,000 prize designed by the Milken Family Foundation to motivate and retain talented teachers. Tamara Garfio, a third-grade teacher at Maywood... -
Legislature will try to dissolve Vernon; city leaders call move illegal
L.A. NOWThe effort to disband the city of Vernon will take a major step forward this week when state Assembly Speaker John Pérez introduces a bill that would effectively require the industrial town to become an unincorporated part of Los Angeles......
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