LA Times: Parents hope to force sweeping changes at Compton school. In the first test of a new law, they want to have a charter company take over McKinley Elementary. Thoughts on Public Education: Compton families first to pull ‘parent trigger.’  Today, parents at a Compton Unified elementary school will become the first in the [...]

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Please find below last weekend and today’s key education and government related news clippings.  Today’s stories include: LA Times: When layoffs come to L.A. schools, performance doesn’t count. After the budget ax fell, hundreds of the district’s most promising new instructors were laid off. Campuses in poorer areas — such as Liechty Middle School in [...]

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Please find below today’s key education and government related news clippings.  Today’s stories include: LA Times: More than 1,000 L.A. Unified workers lose their jobs. Thousands of others will be shifted to new workplaces, with some taking positions with less pay and fewer hours. Teachers are not included in this round, which amounts to almost [...]

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Please find below today’s key education and government related news clippings.  Today’s stories include: LA Times – LA NOW: Union-backed candidate drops out of school board race in San Fernando Valley. A leading challenger to unseat the west San Fernando Valley school board member has dropped out of the race. Heather Hodge Kolodny was the [...]

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Please find below last weekend and today’s key education and government related news clippings.  Today’s stories include: LA Times: LAUSD considers earlier start to school year. The district’s proposal would start and end the academic calendar about three weeks earlier — and let the first semester end before winter break. Critics say August temperatures are [...]

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Please find below today’s key education and government related news clippings.  Today’s stories include: Ed Week: Class Sizes Show Signs of Growing. After dropping for decades, average class sizes in American schools may be growing again as schools cope with budget shortfalls. The Educated Guess: Partnership academies face funding squeeze. Partnership academies, the linchpin of [...]

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Please find attached today’s key education and government related news clippings.  Today’s stories include: Ed Week: NAEP Shows Promise as ‘Preparedness’ Yardstick. Initial studies have delivered early but promising indications that it might be possible to use the exam known as “the nation’s report card” for a brand-new purpose: to gauge students’ preparedness for college [...]

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Please find below last weekend and today’s key education and government related news clippings.  Today’s stories include: LA Times – LA NOW: Protests over cutbacks at L.A. Unified schools. School employees are handing out leaflets to parents Friday morning, decrying the latest round of layoffs, program cuts and pay reductions to befall the Los Angeles [...]

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Please find below today’s key education and government related news clippings.  Today’s stories include: Daily News: Students gain, but progress is slowing. A national education assessment released Thursday shows that high school seniors have made some improvement in reading, but remain below the achievement levels reached nearly two decades ago. Daily News: Villaraigosa’s plan would [...]

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