By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – The United Teachers Los Angeles union has finally embraced the concept of performance-based evaluations, but not for teachers.
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LA schools’ ‘teacher jails’ overflowing in wake of last year’s sexual scandal
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles school board member Tamar Galatzan wants teachers accused of sexual abuse of students to be told the reason they’ve been removed from the classroom, and the expected length of the district’s investigation.
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Fate of L.A.’s reform-minded superintendent could be decided in next week’s school board elections
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – John Deasy’s name won’t appear on any ballots in next week’s L.A. school board elections, but it’s widely understood that the candidates who win three open board seats may determine the superintendent’s future with the district.
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L.A. union says a lot about itself by endorsing a racist for city council
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – United Teachers Los Angeles made a bold and revealing statement about its radical political principles when the union endorsed Ron Gochez for L.A. City Council this month.
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Younger teachers are joining pro-reform groups and pushing for change in K-12 education
By Brittany Clingen
EAGnews.org
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – There are teachers out there fighting for the best interests of students.
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L.A. school board gives California its second Parent Trigger victory
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Unified School District board made history Tuesday afternoon when it unanimously approved a Parent Trigger petition to overhaul 24th Street Elementary School, one of the district’s most dysfunctional schools.
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Pro-reform Los Angeles teachers may be gaining a role in union leadership
By Brittany Clingen
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), a LA-based teachers union, has long been known for its status quo policies and practices.
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LA elementary teacher charged with molesting 20 young students
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles elementary teacher faces numerous felony and misdemeanor charges after he allegedly molested 20 students during his 40-year career in the school district.
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LA teachers union happily agrees to watered-down evaluations
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – It’s an escape that would make Harry Houdini jealous.
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L.A. board votes to fix broken high school, despite public protests
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – People complain about bad schools.
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L.A. schools ordered to pay student $6.9 million in molestation lawsuit
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – It appears the Los Angeles Unified School District will pay dearly for its failure to protect students from sexually abusive teachers.
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Are teachers paying to put porn star colleague back in the classroom?
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – School officials in California’s Oxnard School District began scrambling when they realized one of their teachers, Stacie Halas, had a juicy side job: She was porn star “Tiffany Six,” known most notably for her role in “Big Sausage Pizza.”
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California Supreme Court may decide if a teacher’s seniority rights trump a student’s right to a quality education
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – The United Teachers Los Angeles teachers union scored at least a fleeting, minor victory recently in the ongoing saga over how teacher layoffs are determined in the Los Angeles district’s low-performing schools.
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Union compromises student safety with reinstatement of abusive Wisconsin teacher
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
KEWASKUM, Wis. – Union obstruction of education reform efforts is one thing.
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California Democrats bicker over use of party name
By Jim Newton
From L.A. Times
Especially in California, the party is deeply divided on the question of how best to improve schools.
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Organization sues to end legal protections for incompetent California teachers
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – When it comes to education reform, California has become the land of litigation.
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Biddle: Lawsuits filed for school reform: Villaraigosa joins families in L.A. Unified teacher quality suit
By RiShawn Biddle
Dropout Nation
LOS ANGELES – Back in October and November, Dropout Nation reported on the lawsuit filed by a group of Southern California families organized by activist Alice Callaghan (with backing from the school reform group EdVoice) against the Los Angeles Unified School District, charging that the district had continually violated its obligations under the state’s Stull Act to adequately evaluate teachers and demanding the district to reform its teacher evaluation system.
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Alan Bonsteel and Larry Sand: Public education system a Titanic problem
By Alan Bronsteel and Larry Sand
Published in the Los Angeles Daily News
LOS ANGELES – Without enough education lifeboats, millions of school kids are drowning.
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