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Howard Blume

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Academia Semillas del Pueblo, a Failing School, Gets an L.A. Times Puff Piece

    Updated with response from the Times on next page. By Hillel Aron The Los Angeles Times printed an odd take on Academia Semillas del Pueblo, the failing charter whose kids are nowhere near state standards on reading, writing, adding and subtracting -- even as compared to their identical, struggli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Huntington Park High School Becomes Guinea Pig for Radical LAUSD Reform: 50 Percent of Teachers to Get the Boot

    Huntington Park High School Alumni Association​Updated after the jump: Hundreds of Huntington High students walk the four miles to LAUSD headquarters to fight for their teachers. Here's where the reform debate gets sticky. Usually, teacher cuts can be blamed on the recession -- but these are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    L.A. Charter School Takeover: Teachers, Superintendant Cortines Defeated as Mayor, Reformers Get Their Way With 7 New Charters

    Not this time, Cortines.​Private charter-school giants are pushing their way into the Los Angeles Unified School District one low-performing campus at a time -- or, as was the case yesterday, seven at a time, out of 13 district schools up for grabs. The Los Angeles Board of Education's reform ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Shocking End of Los Angeles Times' California Section

    We've heard back from several top journalists at the Los Angeles Times, who are still in shock over the stunningly bad news that, amidst more layoffs, the California Section, previously known as Metro, will be wiped out and tucked somewhere in the A Section of the recession-whacked newspaper.This is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    L.A. School Report Cards: Zero for Improvement

    Howard Blume reports in today's L.A. Times that the Los Angeles Unified School District has begun mailing one-page report cards to parents on the performances of district schools. Those issued for L.A. high schools provide a ruder awakening than any home-room bell. Blume notes that while previous as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2008

    Sam Zell Gets out the Ruler at Los Angeles Times

    I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the downsizing CityBeat). The Times folks were commiserating over Sam Zell's huge upcoming cuts, in which he ... More >>

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    All Finked Up

    I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the downsizing CityBeat). The Times folks were commiserating over Sam Zell's huge upcoming cuts, in which he ... More >>

  • News

    July 15, 2004

    Letters

    I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the downsizing CityBeat). The Times folks were commiserating over Sam Zell's huge upcoming cuts, in which he ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 26, 2004

    Firing Arnold

    I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the downsizing CityBeat). The Times folks were commiserating over Sam Zell's huge upcoming cuts, in which he ... More >>

  • News

    January 22, 2004

    Letters

    I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the downsizing CityBeat). The Times folks were commiserating over Sam Zell's huge upcoming cuts, in which he ... More >>

  • News

    September 4, 2003

    Letters

    I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the downsizing CityBeat). The Times folks were commiserating over Sam Zell's huge upcoming cuts, in which he ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 29, 2003

    Feel the Glow

    I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the downsizing CityBeat). The Times folks were commiserating over Sam Zell's huge upcoming cuts, in which he ... More >>

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    Letters

    I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the downsizing CityBeat). The Times folks were commiserating over Sam Zell's huge upcoming cuts, in which he ... More >>

  • News

    March 13, 2003

    Letters

    I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the downsizing CityBeat). The Times folks were commiserating over Sam Zell's huge upcoming cuts, in which he ... More >>

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    The Testimony of a Tree-Sitter

    I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the downsizing CityBeat). The Times folks were commiserating over Sam Zell's huge upcoming cuts, in which he ... More >>

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    Taxing Times

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    November 28, 2002

    Letters

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Letters

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    August 15, 2002

    Letters

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    July 25, 2002

    Statement of Wendell Greer

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Summer Calendar

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Letters

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    January 3, 2002

    Letters

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Letters

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    October 25, 2001

    Letters

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    September 6, 2001

    Letters

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    June 14, 2001

    Letters

    Jackie Goldberg’s take on California’s budget

  • News

    May 10, 2001

    Belmont in the LA Weekly

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    March 8, 2001

    Letters

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    Letters

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Letters

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    December 21, 2000

    Letters

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    December 21, 2000

    In Defense of Steiner and Waldorf Education

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    Letters

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    July 27, 2000

    Letters

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    Letters

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    May 25, 2000

    Offer They Can Refuse

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Letters

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Mr. Happy Does the Dew

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Letters

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    Letters

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    School Boss Sweepstakes

    Links to selected past stories about the Belmont Learning Complex

  • News

    December 30, 1999

    Sucker Among the Sharks

    The Mullinax Report chronicles incompetence in high places. And retells an old story.

  • News

    October 28, 1999

    Letters

    The Mullinax Report chronicles incompetence in high places. And retells an old story.

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Venice Riots II

    The Mullinax Report chronicles incompetence in high places. And retells an old story.

  • News

    March 25, 1999

    Letters

    The Mullinax Report chronicles incompetence in high places. And retells an old story.

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Letters

    The Mullinax Report chronicles incompetence in high places. And retells an old story.

  • News

    September 10, 1998

    Letters

    The Mullinax Report chronicles incompetence in high places. And retells an old story.

  • News

    June 25, 1998

    The Smoke Police

    The Mullinax Report chronicles incompetence in high places. And retells an old story.

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    Letters

    The Mullinax Report chronicles incompetence in high places. And retells an old story.

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