Richard Vladovic

Can Kate Anderson, Mom of Twins, Fix LAUSD?

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 >>

Academia Semillas, a Failing School, Escapes Closure

At LAUSD, big friends help

LAUSD Follows Lead of Los Angeles Times, Adopts New Value-Added Method of Grading Student Progress, Teachers

Sean TeagardenThe dance is over for LAUSD's lemons ​Updated after the jump with the differences between the Times' and LAUSD's grading criteria. When the Los Angeles Times unrolled a list of 6,000 Los Angeles teachers, ranked in order of whose students were showing the most improvements on st ... More >>

School Reformer Yolie Flores Departs LAUSD to Fight From Outside

She forced through the most radical idea in recent lausd history. So why’s she leaving for a Bill Gates start-up?

Los Angeles Unified School District Board March 8, 2011 Election Results

Update #2: Kayser talks to L.A. Weekly. See below. Update: Numbers are continuing in the same direction as more votes are counted. See Below. Bennett Kayser​Absentee votes are counted for the Los Angeles Unified School District Board race. We will continue to keep you updated as numbers come i ... More >>

How Is Firing 5,000 LAUSD Teachers Preferable to Chipping at Their Huge, Union-Protected Health Benefits?

Merry Retirement​Either we're missing something here, or this is the biggest no-brainer in the history of L.A. education (teehee, oxymoron). The Los Angeles Unified School District is facing at least a $408 million budget shortfall for the 2011-12 school year. No matter what, someone -- make ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa's Friends, Including City-NFL-Stadium Deal Hopeful Anschutz Corp., Aim $1 Mil at his School Board Picks

Mayor V's candidates get $1 million in support.​L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants to keep his grip on the L.A. school board, and he's got some friends in high places helping him out. One of those friends, the Anshutz Corp., has given $100,000 to the Coalition for School Reform, a committe ... More >>

Union-Backed LAUSD Candidates Accuse UTLA President A.J. Duffy Of Coercing Them To Drop Out

A.J. Duffy​Updated below at 7:32 p.m. with UTLA response.Two union-backed school board candidates are accusing UTLA President A.J. Duffy of coercing them to drop out of the race, after background checks turned up legal and financial issues.Jesus Escandon agreed to drop out, but only after Duffy ma ... More >>

A.J. Duffy's UTLA Cracks Further As Heather Kolodny Drops Los Angeles School Board Bid

A.J. Duffy's tiny pocket is full​Paranoid leaders at United Teachers Los Angeles seek anti-reform teachers to run for Los Angeles Unified School Board. That's right. They grimly resist after losing public confidence following the brilliant L.A. Times test score expose of 6,000 teachers. The Ti ... More >>

Voters Say No To Paying More Taxes For L.A. Public Schools

​County voters shot down a proposed tax that could have raised roughly $92.5 million for the struggling Los Angeles Unified School District. According to the Daily News, ballot Measure E would have added $100 per parcel to property owners' tax bills, saving the jobs of hundreds of teachers, ad ... More >>

Insiders Versus Charters at LAUSD

Strings were pulled, and Ramon Cortines was stopped by his own Board of Education

LAUSD's Finest: Los Angeles School Police

How an oblivious school board lets a tiny, scandal-ridden force endanger L.A. kids

Free Pass From (Teacher) Jail

President Monica Garcia and a cowed LAUSD board punt on firing bad teachers

Brewer's Bungled Buyout

Who's More Incompetent, the Ousted Supe or Garcia and LAUSD Board Flunkies?

Is This the Part They Call Reform?

Villaraigosa doesn’t win a decisive victory, and one of his own candidates is already minimizing his role

Nasty Battle for Classroom Control

L.A., which educates one of every 12 California students, is ground zero in the Education Wars

Anti-Choice Mayor

A political machine squeezes out Tokofsky, Montañez and Fuentes, giving voters sanitized choices

A Black Antonio?

Or, will the new school superintendent turn out to be the next Willie Williams