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Results tagged “Wait and See”
The Hand And Glove Relationship Between LAUSD And UTLA
No, the teachers' union and LAUSD have not decided to offer proctological exams at Beaudry or Berendo, but sometimes it just feels that way.
11
05 2010
LAUSD Taskforce On Teacher Policy Reform
On Tuesday, April 27, 2010, the report of a 50 person task force of "local teachers, administrators, parents, academics and union leaders" that was set up last year will submit its report to the LAUSD Board. So let's go through Reporter Connie Llanos' article from the Contra Cost Times -- she also writes for the Daily News -- and point out the glaring omissions that no one seems willing to address:
28
04 2010
Nobody Minding The Store At LAUSD
I was initially heartened by the indictment of an LAUSD construction supervisor who was not only making over a quarter of a million dollars a year by working for the District, but was also making a similar amount through his privately owned company that he is alleged to have funnel business to by ensuring that LAUSD hired his company's employees as consultants. However, on looking into this matter more thoroughly, it became clear that this prosecution posed more questions than it sought to address...
15
04 2010
The LA Compact Gives A 'Dollop' Of Hope
If the Los Angeles Compact's public education reform proposals
that Professor Charles Kerchner talks about in his Huffington Post
article
or any other proposed public education reform has any chance of
bringing a "dollop of hope" to public education, it must concentrate on
causal factors of present public education failure and not monitoring the effects one at a
time after the fact when the horse is already out of the barn. The
"parochialism and pettiness" will not be stopped unless the soil in
which it has flourished for generations is treated to make it toxic for
such counter productive behavior.
17
03 2010
We're Working Over Here
Just because you don't see anything new right now doesn't mean we aren't trying. Quite the opposite. We're actually working on something gigantic. So gigantic, in fact, that we'll probably get in some sort of trouble (to be determined at a later date). In the meantime we'll distract you with this list of stories the LA Times won't cover -- no matter how many times we ask.
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01 2010
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