Gloria Romero

Why Are Women Practically Nonexistent on L.A. City Council?

Of 15 City Council seats, the Valley's may soon have the sole female

Essential L.A. Weekly Guide to Education Conundrums and Screw Ups: Required Reading for Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti

Update: Greuel discovers education reform after mayoral lambasting, challenges Garcetti to debate. See on next page. Will political twins and L.A. mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti -- a.k.a. "Greuel-Cetti" -- ever talk specifics, and not just platitudes, about the most serious probl ... More >>

Mayoral Candidate Kevin James and Education Reformers Speak Out About Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel's Silence on Parent Trigger

UPDATE, 5 p.m.: Eric Garcetti breaks silence on Parent Trigger. After the jump. UPDATE, 4 p.m.: Wendy Greuel tells L.A. Weekly she supports the Parent Trigger. Eric Garcetti is now the only mayoral candidate who remains to be silent. After the jump. After Los Angeles Unified School District board ... More >>

Rape Protection Only For Married? Blame Stupid Sacramento Policy, Says Ted Lieu

South Bay state Sen. Ted Lieu is blaming Sacramento and its drive to cut prison overcrowding for legislators' failure to plug a glaring and embarrassing loophole in California rape law. This all goes back to last week's amazing story of California's Second District Appellate Court and its decision ... More >>

Molly Munger's Prop. 38 Is Spoiling Jerry Brown's Prop. 30. She's Not Sorry.

Her husband Steve English and the Advancement Project fuel her toughness

Eric Bauman v. Gloria Romero in Assembly District 46

Michelle Rhee, 'Parent Trigger' Supporters File Huge L.A. Lawsuit to Strip Teachers of Job Protection

California's teachers have long been protected by a series of state laws -- lobbied into existence by powerful teachers unions -- that make the ineffective ones almost impossible to fire. Now, in the largest state lawsuit of kind, the key players behind the controversial "Parent Trigger" law allege ... More >>

Parent Trigger: State Lawmakers Ask Attorney General, D.A. to Look Into Possible Fraud at Adelanto School District

The Adelanto Unified Elementary School District, located a couple hours east of L.A. in tumbleweed country, has a huge and historic decision to make tomorrow. Either they verify a "Parent Trigger" petition signed by over 50 percent of parents at Desert Trails Elementary, the district's most poorly ... More >>

Parent Trigger Regulations Approved by California State Board of Education: Let the Reform Begin!

PHOTO BY TED SOQUIThe absence of regulations meant trouble for a recent Parent Trigger attempt in Compton.​Huge victory today for the education-reform camp, and charter groups ready to flip public schools into places of learning, not administrator-heavy cesspools of FAIL: At about 10:20 this ... More >>

Gloria Romero: Watching Out for the Kids

Compton School Board Rejects 'Parent Trigger' Petition, Cites Insufficient Staples, Typos

Simone WilsonA McKinley Elementary student looks up at the CUSD Board of Trustees​Updated after the jump: We've got the PDF -- and a lot more questions. Finally, over two months after it was filed, Compton school board members responded to a parent petition at their meeting last night: After ... More >>

Parent Trigger Showdown in Compton Gets Increasingly Heavy; Jerry Brown, Kamala Harris, and Barack Obama M.I.A.?

Governor Jerry Brown​Update: Former state Sen. Gloria Romero accuses Compton Unified of strong-arming parents to stop charter school. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and another huge law firm join Parent Trigger effort pro bono. Things get increasingly heavy in Compton today when the McKinley Parent ... More >>

Opponents of Parent Trigger Law Push for 'Transparency,' Gloria Romero Says That's Hogwash

Former state senator Gloria Romero​"Transparency" appears to be the new political controversy over California's Parent Trigger law, which allows parents to make changes at a chronically failing public school if they pull off a successful petition drive. While former state senator Gloria Rom ... More >>

Governor Jerry Brown's New California Board Of Education Appointments Could Disable Compton 'Trigger'

A new State Board of Education might be Brown's way of pulling the trigger on charters​Jerry Brown announced his California Board of Education appointments yesterday -- and they're sure to throw a wrench in the spokes of the Parent Trigger movement. For a group of parents in Compton, this wil ... More >>

'Parent Trigger' Supporters Face Intimidation Tactics in School Reform Battle in Compton, Antonio Villaraigosa Jumps into Fray

Ted SoquiMcKinley Elementary School in Compton​UPDATE: L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says school reform in Compton "isn't about pointing fingers or dragging our feet." More comments from Villaraigosa after break. First reported at 7 a.m. As expected, the battle over control of McKinley Ele ... More >>

California's Parent Trigger

How McKinley in Compton became the first school taken over by parents under a radical new law

Alex Padilla Wins* California State Senate District 20 In Election 2010, Feeding Opponent Kathleen Evans To Lions Before Cheering Valley Crowds

​We're calling it: Alex Padilla (D) of the San Fernando Valley is your next representative for California State Senate District 20. He beat opponent Kathleen Evans (R) by a landslide. *OK, so we fibbed in the headline. The final results aren't in and the polls haven't closed. But thanks to s ... More >>

Kevin De Leon, Edward Hernandez Win* California State Senate Districts 22, 24 In Election 2010, Wishing They Had Opponents To Conquer

Edward Hernandez​We're calling it: Kevin De Leon (D) of South Pasadena and Edward Hernandez (D) of L.A. proper are your next representatives for California State Senate Districts 22 and 24, respectively. Both ran unopposed. *OK, so you can't exactly win a race in which no one else running.

Gloria Romero Says Southern California Transportation Officials Richard Katz And Curt Pringle Are Breaking The Law

Gloria Romero says Richard Katz and Curt Pringle should quit one of their two transportation gigs.​Are Richard Katz, former state Assmebly transportation chief, and Curt Pringle, the mayor of Anaheim, breaking the law? Eastside state Sen. Gloria Romero, who wrote the law, says yes. The pair s ... More >>

Serpentine May Be Stripped Of Official California State Rock Status Because It Contains Abestos

​According to the Associated Press, Democratic state Senator Gloria Romero of East Los Angeles is proposing dropping serpentine, a jade-green rock, as California's official state rock because it contains asbestos. Asbestos, which causes a cancer called mesthelioma, was heavily mined in the U ... More >>

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State Superintendent Race Still Too Close to Call

Retired public school superintendent Larry Aceves​In an extremely close race that is still not official, retired public school superintendent Larry Aceves and state Senator Tom Torlakson appear to be heading for a run-off in the November general election for California Superintendent of Publi ... More >>

Larry Aceves and Tom Torlakson Move Forward in State Superintendent Race

State Assemblyman Tom Torlakson​The San Francisco Chronicle has called the statewide race for superintendent of public instruction, with retired public school superintendent Larry Aceves and state Assemblyman Tom Torlakson facing each other in a November run-off. State Senator Gloria Romero ... More >>

LAUSD Honchos Back Gloria Romero in Superintendent Race

State Sen. Gloria Romero.​Los Angeles Unified School District President Monica Garcia and Vice-President Yolie Flores are backing California State Senator Gloria Romero in her bid to become the next state superintendent of public instruction.Romero, a hard-charging reformer from Los Angeles w ... More >>

Will LAUSD Ever Adopt Merit Pay For Teachers?

Michelle Rhee, the hard-charging chancellor of Washington D.C.'s public school system, won a major battle over performance-based pay the other day, which now ties teachers' salaries to classroom results not seniority and improves teacher evaluations. LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines​That news c ... More >>

East L.A. Cityhood Gets One Step Closer

​The unincorporated community of East Los Angeles was one step closer this week to becoming a full-fledged city: The state Senate Appropriations Committee approved a bill that will pave the way for the designation, East L.A. state Sen. Gloria Romero announced Tuesday. The bill, AB 711, advanc ... More >>

Looks good for Romero-Dutton law: It bans ousted California politicians from getting unemployment

California state Sen. Gloria Romero's  bill to prevent loser politicians who get ousted by voters from collecting California state unemployment insurance has made it out of a key labor committee in Sacramento. Well, thank God for that.John Nunez​Yes, you read it right. Thanks to a particularl ... More >>

California's Big Whiff on Education-Reform Money

What the hell led to the "Race to the Top" rejection from Obama?

Romero, Fellow Politicians Support Polanski Extradition

Los Angeles state Sen. Gloria Romero and several Sacramento colleagues signed a letter supporting county District Attorney Steve Cooley's efforts to extradite Roman Polanski, who admitted to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old before fleeing to France in 1978.State Sen. Gloria Rome ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Zero for Conduct L.A. Unified School District officials are calling for legislation to make it easier to fire incompetent, tenured teachers. State Senator Gloria Romero, formerly opposed to the idea, now seems to be on board somewhat. L.A. TimesNo Cash Flow The Palmdale Water District's cash reserve ... More >>

The Race for Hilda Solis' Seat: Let the Bloodbath Begin

Yesterday's filing deadline to fill Hilda Solis' Congressional seat for the largely San Gabriel Valley 32nd District found a dozen candidates in the running. Three of them are sacrificial Republicans, plus one Libertarian, but the bulk are Democrats. The two frontrunners are Judy Chu, currently a me ... More >>

The (Yes, It's Arrived) Latino Factor: Latinos Choose Hillary...

... bum out Obama, and give a little nod to McCain

Voter Guide: the Pros and Cons of the Initiatives, February 5 Ballot

Making sense of the issues

Tribal Purge

State Dems back gambling-rich Indians’ greedy wars of expansion

The Final Hours of Miguel Contreras

The 911 call said he went in for a card reading. But the death of the labor leader prompted a prostitution raid. What really went down at the botanica?

The New Fall Guy

Those high dropout rates and low test scores are Mayor V’s problem now

What About Gloria, Mr. Mayor?

Jailhouse Hope

Community leaders and the sheriff talk peace and the riots’ cause

School Takedown

Antonio’s case for control of L.A. Unified merits a C+, but he’s a fast learner

The Predators

Cruz and Tom escape with their day jobs

Alatorre’s Cat

Seeking one more life in the 49th Assembly race

Judy Chu for Assembly

It’s Weird Out There

Politicians provide comic relief from election madness

Good vs. Good

The race for the San Gabriel Valley’s 24th state Senate seat

Print-Out Ballot Guide

Endorsements

The Weekly’s recommendations in the November general election

Endorsements (Continued)

The Weekly’s recommendations in the November general election

More Endorsements

Our selections in Tuesday's General Election (cont.)

Famous Victories

How labor won on Tuesday; how Gray Davis can win this fall