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LAUSD Superintendent’s Big Plan To Improve Schools Pins Its Hope On Principals
The leader of the Los Angeles Unified School District has finally released details of a long-anticipated plan to re-shape the relationship between the system’s 900-plus schools and a massive central bureaucracy.
First a delivery truck plastered with pictures of smiling children started making the rounds of the northeast San Fernando Valley last spring. Then came a billboard on Van Nuys Boulevard for the same 90-year-old product: a Los Angeles public school.
New (School) Year’s Resolutions: as 2017-18 begins, three LA educators plan for change
Richard Ramos remembers being afraid to start middle school. In his elementary days, he remembered hearing horror stories about his bigger, older peers.
LA Unified magnet schools in demand, but slow to expand
The day after parents get the letter saying their child qualifies as gifted, they often end up in Richard Ramos’ office.
Primero, un camión de reparto cubierto con imágenes de niños sonrientes comenzó a circular en el noreste del Valle de San Fernando, la primavera pasada. Luego fue una cartelera publicitaria en Van Nuys Boulevard, para el mismo producto -de 90 años de edad-: una escuela pública de Los Ángeles. “
Cada vez hay más escuelas donde se estudia la música de mariachi
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LOS ANGELES (Feb. 19, 2019) – The Los Angeles Unified School District and the country’s second-largest school system, and the Council of the Great City Schools, the nation’s primary coalition of large city public school systems, announced today the establishment of a nationwide initiative to improve the quality of math materials for English-language learners in middle school.
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 19, 2019) – The Los Angeles Unified School District and the country’s second-largest school system, and the Council of the Great City Schools, the nation’s primary coalition of large city public school systems, announced today the establishment of a nationwide initiative to improve the quality of math materials for English-language learners in middle school.
How new superintendent Austin Beutner plans to help LAUSD’s struggling schools
Austin Beutner, who starts work Tuesday as the chief executive of the Los Angeles Unified School District, faces several daunting challenges in his new job: falling enrollment, tightening budgets, labor difficulties.
LAUSD has the most robust COVID-19 testing protocol in California, requiring all students and teachers to be tested weekly. California could be the first state in the U.S. with a teacher vaccine mandate. Gov. Newsom announced today that all teachers and school staff in the state will be required to get vaccinated or submit to weekly testing.
$350 million. 1,000 healthcare workers. 500,000 tests weekly. Inside LAUSD’s virus testing effort
The scene at Telfair Elementary in the days leading up to the Monday opening of the school year reflected what will be the new normal across the Los Angeles school district: Students, teachers and staff in line for their coronavirus test.
