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L.A. Unified won't apply for $40 million federal grant
L.A. NOWAn effort to win a high-profile $40-million grant has unraveled after the L.A. teachers union declined to sign the application, a condition for the competition imposed by the federal education department.... -
L.A. Unified administrators confident about new evaluation system
L.A. NOWLos Angeles Unified administrators are optimistic they can reach agreement with district officials over a new performance review system in compliance with court-ordered deadlines, according to legal papers filed Wednesday.... -
Report calls for more teacher training, limiting use of test scores
L.A. NOWThe state needs to focus on recruiting, educating and retaining teachers if it wants to improve student academic performance, a state task force has concluded. Recent budget cuts, however, have pushed the state in the opposite direction, according to the.... -
Gates-funded advocacy group to shut down
L.A. NOWThe Gates Foundation, the nation’s most influential education-policy organization, has quietly ended financial support for a locally based national group formed to push for favored reforms, including an overhaul of teacher evaluations. Communities... -
Schools caught cheating on standardized tests [Google+ hangout]
L.A. NOWTimes education reporter Howard Blume will join city editor Shelby Grad at 1:30 p.m. for a Google+ hangout about schools the state stripped of their Academic Performance Index ratings for cheating on standardized tests. Some teachers may have thought... -
Principals approve new evaluations but object to workload
L.A. NOWSchool officials on Tuesday formally approved a one-year agreement for evaluating principals in the Los Angeles Unified School District, but the head of the administrators union also asserted that principals will be overburdened by a new teacher-... -
L.A. Unified and charter groups win teacher evaluation grants
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles Unified School District and three local charter-school groups have won federal grants to develop their teacher and principal evaluation systems, the U.S. Department of Education has announced. L.A. Unified, California’s largest... -
Deasy gets authority over approving outside control of schools
L.A. NOWL.A. schools Supt. John Deasy received broad authority Tuesday to renew or end agreements by which two outside organizations run traditional public schools, including a group of schools under the control of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The... -
New L.A. teachers too often placed with neediest students, study finds
L.A. NOWA new study has found that inexperienced teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are disproportionately more likely to be assigned to lower-performing math students, perpetuating the achievement gap.... -
Rejecting test scores as a core value
It wasn't about money. It was about respect. That's what Chicago teachers union president Karen Lewis kept reminding the public during the seven-day teachers strike that had parents scrambling and kept 350,000 children out of class. But there was way...
Tags: Karen Lewis, Health Insurance Cost, Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning, Rahm Emanuel
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Twenty-one California school districts apply for controversial federal grant
L.A. NOWTwenty-one California school districts and educational consortiums have applied for a $400 million federal grant program that has been strongly opposed by many teachers unions. The U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday that it received 371... -
Parents criticize officials after cheating allegations roil school
L.A. NOWLeaders of a parent organization at Short Avenue Elementary on Tuesday criticized the school’s former principal and the Los Angeles Unified School District in the wake of alleged cheating and mistakes in administering state standardized...
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