Magnet Angel
From the monthly archives: July 2011
LAUSD has decided to postpone the new homework policy that would cap the amount of a grade that could be attributed to homework to 10 percent of a student’s grade after parents and teachers both publicly balked at not being included in the decision.
Let’s face it. They can’t have it both ways. […]
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LAUSD announced this week that it will reconsider its policy that promotes students at the end of the year, despite how many credits they have earned.
On her Facebook page, Board MemberTamar Galatzan stated that she hopes in six months the school district will present a policy that addresses many of […]
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According to the LA Times, John Deasy is requesting an extension on the
Sacramento meant well. The whooping cough epidemic is serious enough to warrant extra attention. In California in 2010, 9,477 people became infected with pertussis and ten infants died. But like the Nanny state we’ve become, the politicians enacted a […]
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I’m not a math major, even though I gave birth to one. And clearly, California’s State Assembly and Senate aren’t math majors either. As part of the budget bill passed in June, Assembly Bill 114 directs “…each school district budget shall project the same level of revenue per unit of average daily attendance […]
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By now, many parents have heard of the Atlanta cheating scandal that involved teachers, principals and the superintendent of schools–nearly 200 employees physically changing answers on bubble tests.
I see the problem as twofold. First parents can’t allow this to get swept under the rug. Cheating is cheating, and it’s illegal and sends the […]
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For years, those of us who choose LAUSD for our kids have known the good that LAUSD has: magnets, great teachers, schools that we’ve called hidden gems, and even an honors orchestra. The sad thing has always been that so few people know about the good stuff that current parents tended to be the only […]
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Thanks to a new state law, many seventh through twelfth grade students starting at year-round LAUSD schools this week found out they lacked a whooping vaccination to enable them to attend school. With early start calendar high schools starting in the Valley next month and then the rest of the district starting on September […]
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At their first meeting of the year, the Los Angeles Unified School District board members, in a 4-3 vote that went down along expected party lines, re-elected Monica Garcia as their president.
But rather than focusing on real issues, Richard Vladovic spent more than a few minutes discussing the Cameron Diaz movie, “Bad […]
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At today’s school board meeting, Steve Zimmer suggested that the district create school options that would compete with charters. Since the district keeps hemmorhaging students, the clear way to keep families on its rosters is to give them clear, palatable choices.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that good programs […]
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