Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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Waiting For Proposition 30 (and its funds)
03 Jun 2013Remember the fierce euphoria upon passing proposition 30? It promised to break the educational economic drought and channel money back…
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Venice High School: a microcosm of national Education Reform politics
01 Jun 2013Venice High School (VHS) has been on our beach radar since early spring when a “pilot” school was discovered slated…
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Education Reform That Isn’t
26 May 2013So much politicking and money grubbing … it’s our children who suffer. Always, they are the constituency with no one…
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When Lightning Strikes Twice
23 May 2013Across Los Angeles, parents understand it is no mere accident of the vote that twice in as many months, and…
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Smaller Class-size: Not Just For Teachers
15 May 2013Sometimes a misapprehension is so absurd the disconnect from reality just doesn’t register. I am absolutely dumb-founded to learn that…
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“Empty” by any other name: FUND DISTRICT SCHOOLS FIRST
12 May 2013Do you know an empty classroom when you see it? How’s this sound: if its lights are out, there are…
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“Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”
09 May 2013I listened to LAUSD’s head honcho call himself a “numbers guy” recently: “…mathematics, chemistry, physics – I get that; I’m…
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Sunday, Sobbing Sunday
05 May 2013Exhausted beyond measure at the close of Big Sunday, a city-wide day of public service, there is nothing I want…
