While teachers protested a proposed charter expansion plan outside the LA
Unified school board meeting yesterday, union leaders involved with the district and a former board president, spoke out against it inside.
The actions have included hundreds of teachers» protesting outside the Sept. 20 opening of The Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles and another protest outside an LA
Unified school board meeting in October.
El Camino isn't expected to be scheduled for discussion at Tuesday's LA
Unified school board meeting, but issues or updates could be brought up while other charter school issues are addressed.
What began as a breezy LA
Unified School Board meeting on Tuesday turned, not surprisingly, into a long, tedious, sometimes rancorous session, with a host of issues discussed but rarely resolved.
Not exact matches
The stage has been set for an apparent showdown between charter
school operators and the Los Angeles Unified School District office charged with charter school oversight, when the LAUSD school board votes on an unprecedented 14 recommendations for charter petition denials at Tuesday's special board me
school operators and the Los Angeles
Unified School District office charged with charter school oversight, when the LAUSD school board votes on an unprecedented 14 recommendations for charter petition denials at Tuesday's special board me
School District office charged with charter
school oversight, when the LAUSD school board votes on an unprecedented 14 recommendations for charter petition denials at Tuesday's special board me
school oversight, when the LAUSD
school board votes on an unprecedented 14 recommendations for charter petition denials at Tuesday's special board me
school board votes on an unprecedented 14 recommendations for charter petition denials at Tuesday's special
board meeting.
[vi] The Los Angeles Weekly live blogging, Dec. 14, 2010: «We're reporting live from the [Compton
Unified School District]
board meeting, packed with press and hundreds of angry parents — many of whom say they were tricked into signing the Parent Trigger petition without understanding its gravity.
Applications for six new charter
schools will come before the LA
Unified school board at its
meeting tomorrow, the biggest wave of requests since the Broad Foundation proposed a plan to expand the number of charter
schools in LAUSD.
Recently, there has been an onslaught of misinformation and anti-charter rhetoric at Los Angeles
Unified School District (LAUSD)
board meetings.
While the latest academic reports from the LA
Unified school district were positive overall,
school board President Steve Zimmer expressed frustration at some of the data presented at Tuesday's
board meeting and said he foresees potential problems ahead.
Dozens of parents, students, advocates, and other community members signed up to give comment around Los Angeles
Unified School District's proposed budget at the its school board meeting this
School District's proposed budget at the its
school board meeting this
school board meeting this week.
Santa Ana
Unified shared its preliminary draft LCAP at its
school board meeting last week.
Long Beach
Unified School District students and members of Californians for Justice delivered testimonials and staged a «silent protest» during a recent school board me
School District students and members of Californians for Justice delivered testimonials and staged a «silent protest» during a recent
school board me
school board meeting.
Students held a mock
school board meeting and rally outside of Long Beach
Unified's headquarters as the district's
board held a budget - related
meeting.
UPDATED * LA
Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines has corrected a statement he made at Tuesday's
board meeting, telling the members in an email that he erred in saying charter
schools receive more in state funding than traditional public
schools.
About 100 parents and students participated in Oakland
Unified School District's school board meeting Wednesday and successfully advocated for $ 1.5 million to be released for school sites to spend at their discr
School District's
school board meeting Wednesday and successfully advocated for $ 1.5 million to be released for school sites to spend at their discr
school board meeting Wednesday and successfully advocated for $ 1.5 million to be released for
school sites to spend at their discr
school sites to spend at their discretion.
Cynthia Lim, Executive Director of the Office of Data and Accountabilty for LA
Unified, sent a letter to the
school board and Superintendent Ramon Cortines last week, warning that the «percentage of students who will have «
met or exceeded standards» on the new tests will be lower than the proficiency rates we have seen with the old California Standards Tests.»
Responding to incidents of iPad misuse at district
schools and widespread public criticism over problems with the rollout, the LA
Unified board yesterday approved setting a special
meeting later this month to «publicly grapple» with iPad issues.
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Unified Board: Let
Schools Decide Spending; LA
Unified Budget Wars Return with the Usual Competing Visions; Deasy's D.C. Trip Yields «Less than Positive News» on Federal Budget; Common Core Budget Approval Put Off for Another Week;
School Board Meeting Wrap Up: More Discussion Than Votes *
Hundreds turn out at San Jose
Unified Board meeting to protest Charter
School Facility Moves, replicating similar protests one year ago.
While the
schools could appeal any rejections to the Los Angeles County
Board of Education, they must first go before LA Unified's school board, and board member Nick Melvoin is hoping the district will reach a compromise with the charter leaders before Tuesday's mee
Board of Education, they must first go before LA
Unified's
school board, and board member Nick Melvoin is hoping the district will reach a compromise with the charter leaders before Tuesday's mee
board, and
board member Nick Melvoin is hoping the district will reach a compromise with the charter leaders before Tuesday's mee
board member Nick Melvoin is hoping the district will reach a compromise with the charter leaders before Tuesday's
meeting.
The LA
Unified School Board convened at 10 a.m. and didn't adjourn until more than 12 hours later yesterday, in a series of meetings that ran the gamut from moving forward on finding a new superintendent, to confronting ugly budget realities to diving into the minutiae of charter school applica
School Board convened at 10 a.m. and didn't adjourn until more than 12 hours later yesterday, in a series of
meetings that ran the gamut from moving forward on finding a new superintendent, to confronting ugly budget realities to diving into the minutiae of charter
school applica
school applications.
The LA
Unified board voted on petitions for a number of charter
schools at Tuesday's
meeting.
The LA
Unified school board put its money where its mouth is at its May 10
meeting and approved a $ 3 million expansion of its growing magnet program.
Charter
school administrators, alumni and parents appeared today at a morning
meeting of the LA
Unified school to oppose a resolution that will ask the
board to condemn any threat to the
school system through a proliferation of charter
schools.
The discussion that led to Cortines» comments at the
board meeting was the approval of a new independent KIPP charter
school, which spawned a wider discussion on the financial impact independent charter growth may be having on the district, in particular a recent report from Moody's Investor Service that concluded that the coming expansion of KIPP charter
schools in LA
Unified was a credit negative, as it will result in a loss of $ 35 million to the district.
Things weren't looking good for WISH Charter
Schools» supporters, who filled the front rows at L.A.
Unified's
school board meeting Tuesday night in hopes of winning approval to open a new charter high
school.
* UPDATED A record number of charter
schools, all outperforming nearby district
schools, have been recommended for denial by LA
Unified staff when their petitions come before Tuesday's
school board meeting.
At a
meeting this past Tuesday (February 10, 2015) the
Board of Education for the San Diego
Unified School District voted 5 - 0 in favor of a resolution urging Congress to eliminate the federal mandate that
schools be required to conduct annual standardized testing.
Adopted and approved by the
Board of Education of the San Diego
Unified School District at the regular
meeting held on the 10th day of February 2015.
The Los Angeles
Unified school board is seen
meeting with parents, teachers and students earlier this year.
Ramona
Unified trustees Bob Stoody and Kim Lasley listen as
board member Rodger Dohm talks during a recent
school board meeting.
* UPDATED Applications for six new charter
schools will come before the LA
Unified school board at its
meeting tomorrow, the biggest wave of requests since the Broad Foundation proposed a plan to expand the number of charter
schools in LAUSD.
In its first
meeting of 2015, the LA
Unified school board tomorrow will debate a range of issues, from students» eating alone to farm workers» pay.
Members of the LA
Unified school board are taking the lead in identifying, encouraging and replicating successful
schools with two resolutions that will be discussed at Tuesday's
board meeting.
In Los Angeles, charter
school supporters and parents from Families That Can presented hundreds of signed petitions at the October 9 board meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District to protest Board Member Steve Zimmer's resolution to impose a moratorium on new charter schools in the dis
school supporters and parents from Families That Can presented hundreds of signed petitions at the October 9
board meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District to protest Board Member Steve Zimmer's resolution to impose a moratorium on new charter schools in the dist
board meeting of the Los Angeles
Unified School District to protest Board Member Steve Zimmer's resolution to impose a moratorium on new charter schools in the dis
School District to protest
Board Member Steve Zimmer's resolution to impose a moratorium on new charter schools in the dist
Board Member Steve Zimmer's resolution to impose a moratorium on new charter
schools in the district.