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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-30-14

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






L.A. UNIFIED’S BOND COMMITTEE DEMONSTRATES HOW TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT iPADS
Opinion in the LA Times by Editorial Board member Karin Klein | http://lat.ms/1yy22uS How does L.A. Unified know how many iPads or laptops it needs when it doesn't know how many it has? Bond overseers consider morning testing a bad reason for LAUSD to buy more tablets or laptops According to the bond oversight committee of Los Angeles Unified and an article by The Times, LAUSD is


LAUSD BOARD TO PRIVATELY EVALUATE SUPERINTENDENT JOHN DEASY + Ironic+sarcastic comments (Imagine!)
By Thomas Himes, Los Angeles Daily News | http://bit.ly/1qREYgB Members of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education are meeting in private on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 to evaluate Superintendent John Deasy. His annual performance review is set for Oct. 21. (2013 file photo by Andy Holzman/Los Angeles Daily News) 2 Comments Posted: 09/29/14, 5:21 PM PDT | Updated: 9/30

Newton in The LA Times: DEASY+CO CIRCLE THE WAGONS AS EMILY BRONTE MEETS CHRISTIAN GREY
EXT. MONUMENT VALLEY – DAY THERE ARE SMOKE SIGNALS – AND THE SOUNDTRACK HAS AN INCESSENT DRUMBEAT. AND SO IT BEGINS, AS THE DEASY LOYALISTS, ®EFORMERS, ASTROTURF ALLIANCES, CHARTER SCHOOL PROPONENTS AND THE BILLIONARE BOYS CLUB CIRCLE THE WAGONS IN THE VALLEY AS THE BUTTES ARE CRESTED WITH ALL THE INDIANS IN THE WORLD ! It starts out as an innocent enough tweet from @newton_jim: “My latest, on


4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-28-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: GOV. BROWN SIGNS BILLS AIDING IMMIGRANT CHILDREN, TROUBLED STUDENTS; VETOES $100 MILLION FOR LONG-NEEDED REPAIRS AT UC’s+CSU’sBy Patrick McGreevy, Phil Willon | LA Times | http://lat.ms/1mDLM6u Gov. Jerry Brown took action on a wide range of proposals ahead of a midnight Tuesday deadline to sign or veto hundreds of measures still on his desk. (Bob Chamb