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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-3-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:











DEASY: “Dear LAUSD Family, I would like to speak to you personally…” but instead here are two links to the same memo I sent to the Board of Ed yesterday
an email blast sent to all LAUSD employees From: Superintendent John Deasy [superintendent_john@LAUSD.NET]Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 2:39 PMTo: LAUSD_EMPLOYEES@LIST.LAUSD.NETSubject: Ed-Blast: CCTP Memo Sent to the Board of Education    Los Angeles Unified School District September 3, 2014 CCTP Memo Sent to the Board of Education Dear LAUSD family, As your superintendent it is my
UTLA URGES “TEACHER JAIL’ FOR LAUSD CHIEF AMID iPAD, MiSiS PROBES
CBS Los Angeles | http://cbsloc.al/1unf5KC   September 3, 2014 8:28 AM  :: LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Los Angeles teachers’ union Wednesday asked Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent John Deasy to place himself in “teacher jail” while investigations are conducted into two controversial technology efforts by the district. KNX 1070’s
Teachers union to superintendent: “GO TO ‘TEACHER JAIL’”
BY FERMIN LEAL / Staff Writer - LosAngelesRegister.com http://bit.ly/1un2Tt9 < The Los Angeles Unified School District's teachers union will call Wednesday on Superintendent John Deasy to report to “teacher jail” until investigations into the district's much-maligned iPad program and MiSiS student data system have concluded. FILE: THE REGISTER Sept. 2, 2014  Updated 10:
LAWMAKER CALLS FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO PROBE ‘SUSPICIOUS’ LAUSD iPAD ROLLOUT
« CBS Los Angeles  | http://cbsloc.al/1r1A2q9 (Photo credit: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images) September 2, 2014 11:56 PM - LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com)  ::  A Chino Hills lawmaker Tuesday called upon Los Angeles County prosecutors to investigate a controversial bidding process used to bring iPad tablets to students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Assemblyman Curt
L.A. Schools Supt. Deasy Defends His Dealings With Apple, Pearson
By Howard Blume - LA Times http://lat.ms/WbOMun L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy, under scrutiny over dealings with Apple and Pearson, said in a memo that "no violations of any legal requirements took place." (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) 3 Sept 2014  ::  Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy on Tuesday issued his most extensive and passionate defense yet of his actions involving Apple and
DEASY’S MEA NON CULPA ON iPADS: : “In view of the many false and misleading statements of fact that have been made public for what seems to be primarily political reasons…”
a board informative from the office of the superintendent | published by the LA Times | http://bit.ly/1qou32x
Pearson: INSIDE THE BELLY OF A VERY TROUBLED BEAST
by Alan Singer - Social studies educator, Hofstra University-my opinions, of course, are my own - from the Huffington Post | http://huff.to/1lHQ5gP   "And the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds." -Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, Book 1, chapter XIX, c. 1469   9/02/2014 1:16 pm EDT Updated: 9/02/2014 1:59 pm EDT   ::  Being trapped in


4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-2-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: LEGISLATIVE ANALYST’S OFFICE PROPOSES PARADIGM SHIFT IN MANAGING STATE EDUCATION: Beyond compliance to true collaborative oversight – not “permissible” …but “effective”By Jane Meredith Adams | EdSource Today  |  http://bit.ly/1lFtm52 The California Department of Education building in Sacramento. August 29, 2014 |  Proposing a fundamental change in the w