May 2013
48 posts
LAUSD in the News
South LA Kids Garden Dedication Event – LA Sentinel
On Wednesday, May 15, 25 kindergarten students from Woodcrest Elementary School along with John Wagner, First 5 LA Chief Operating Officer, Bruce Saito, Executive Director, LA Conservation Corps, Actor Esai Morales and his 2 ½ year old daughter, Apple Brains (Children’s Band Performing fruit/vegetable themed music) and 50 Community and Corporate...
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How a Franklin High Spanish Teacher Wants to Make LAUSD Greener – Highland Park Patch
In August 2007, the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education adopted a “Green LAUSD Resolution,” with these words: “LAUSD must strive to be the most sustainable and environmentally-friendly urban large school district in the country.”
Hollywood High School awarded High School Musical Theatre Award...
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Huntington displays artwork from East Los Angeles high school – LA Times
The Huntington Library this week debuted an unusual collection: The work was created on the streets of East Los Angeles and the artists have yet to graduate from high school.
Canoga Park Elementary marks a century of learning – Daily News
The birthday bash Friday at Canoga Park Elementary was worthy of 100 years.
San Pedro...
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SLIDESHOW: Elephant art, LAUSD kids compete for arts funding for their schools - KPCC
On Sunday, Los Angeles Unified School District elementary students will compete in the “Love Elephants” art contest at the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica.
County and the Inner City Shakespeare Ensemble bring ‘Twelfth Night’ to Ladera Park Amphitheater - Wave Newspaper
A play William...
Watchnurymartinez:
The closure of a popular aviation mechanics school at Van Nuys Airport was averted Tuesday when Los Angeles education officials agreed to lease the campus from the city’s airport agency at the dramatically reduced rate of $1 a year.
For full article: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aviation-school-lease-20130514,0,1687916.story
By Dan Weikel May 14, 2013, 2:04 p.m.
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A view into the photography program at Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology – LA Times
More than 100 portraits of Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology (HAAT) students and their photographs will be featured on a 1,000-foot-long fence covering the construction of the Huntington Library’s Education and Visitor Center.
Los Angeles School To Be Named After Korean American Legend – New America...
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L.A. Unified OKs $1 lease to save aviation mechanics school – LA Times
The closure of a popular aviation mechanics school at Van Nuys Airport was averted Tuesday when Los Angeles education officials agreed to lease the campus from the city’s airport agency at the dramatically reduced rate of $1 a year.
Health exchange awards $37 million in outreach grants – Sacramento Bee
The UC Davis Center...
BOARD OF EDUCATION HONORS LEGENDS
NAMES NEW SCHOOLS FOR SAMMY LEE, SALLY RIDE AND DIEGO RIVERA
LOS ANGELES – Noted physician Dr. Sammy Lee is one of our own. He graduated from Franklin High School, Class of 1939. A scholar-athlete, passionate about studying and practicing platform diving, he became the first Asian American to win an Olympic Gold Medal for the United States.
Lee, a native Californian of Korean descent, won his...
L.A. UNIFIED ADOPTS NEW POLICY ON STUDENT BEHAVIOR
Schools Looking to Engage Students Rather than Suspending Them
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles City Board of Education approved today a landmark plan that makes the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) the first in California to ban suspensions for what is known as willful defiance.
The measure approved 5-2, represents another major shift on student discipline within the school district....
Los Angeles Unified School Board Approves Reduced...
Vote follows months of behind the scenes negotiations facilitated by Board Member Nury Martinez and Congressman Tony Cardenas
Los Angeles, CA – The Los Angeles Unified School Board voted today to approve a proposed reduced rate for the Aviation Program at the North Valley Occupational Center at an annual cost of $1.
The agreement follows months of fast-tracking negotiations between LAUSD and...
School Board Approves New Child Abuse Prevention
DIRECTS SUPERINTENDENT TO REPORT BACK IN 60 DAYS
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Board of Education today directed Superintendent John Deasy to create a special Personal Safety and Child Abuse Prevention Unit, which would establish centralized protocols, guidelines, tools and resources for best practices in child abuse prevention, intervention and post-intervention at each school...
LAUSD PRESS: Statement Of LA School Police Chief... →
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“I am pleased that the Board of Education voted today to support the Superintendent’s request to approve the increase of 4-million dollars for hiring of additional school police officers and police resources”, said Steve Zipperman, Chief of the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD). “The…
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Students strut their stuff in ‘Spotlight on Success’ talent show - Daily News
More than 2,000 people may have witnessed a star-in-the-making at an annual competition that celebrates performing arts education in local schools.
‘Spotlight on Success’ talent show at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood
Limerick Elementary makes Breakfast in Classroom program a success – Daily...
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LAUSD Board Member LaMotte Honors Community Trailblazers – LA Sentinel
Twenty community trailblazers were recently honored by LAUSD School Board Member Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte at the annual Board District 1 Community Trailblazers ceremony.
‘Urban Movement’ Flourishing at Lincoln High School – Eastern Group Publications
A fairly new after-school dance club at Lincoln High School in the Los...
TED Talks Education
Remember that special teacher? The one who believed in you and helped you excel? Meet LAUSD’s Pearl Arredondo who beat tough odds. She encourages students to succeed regardless of negative circumstances at San Fernando Institute of Applied Media, a middle school. Click below to view her participation in TED Talks Education as an Education Leader. Watch as she speaks about the obstacles she faced...
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With Franklin win, LAUSD sweeps Academic Decathlon season – LA Times
Academic Decathlon teams from Los Angeles have won the state competition and, in a first, taken both first and second place at the national competition. Now, the season ends with one more distinction for L.A. Unified: Franklin High School has won a national online competition.
Film Project on LA Street Vendors Brings Community...
Dropout Reengagement Moves Forward in Los Angeles →
The City of Los Angeles and the LA Unified School District as close working partners: who would have predicted this in the midst of bitter struggles over mayoral leadership of schools a few years a…
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San Pedro High throws surprise party for exceptional teacher – Daily Breeze
San Pedro High School English teacher David Crowley was going about his business Monday morning when he was told there was a distraught student in the multipurpose room who badly needed his counsel.
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WESM students take home top prize in Aspen Challenge – Hometown News
The Aspen Institute and the Bezos Family Foundation, in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), issued a challenge to LAUSD students.
The Hitting, Pitching And Leadership Of Brandon Zavala Has Verdugo Hills On The Verge Of A Second Straight East Valley League Title – San Fernando Valley Sun
Baseball is...
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California Energy Commission awards more than $575,000 to support CNG school buses in Los Angeles area – Green Car Congress
The California Energy Commission approved $578,261 to projects that will boost the number of CNG-fueled buses in two school districts in Southern California by providing compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling infrastructure.
Turning teens into police officers – Jewish Journal...
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L.A. ninth-grader whips up winning breakfast recipe – LA Times
Her nephew likes fruit. Her brother likes eggs. And so Guadalupe Gonzales, a ninth-grader at Panorama High School in Los Angeles, put the two ingredients together in a dish that was named the top winner Tuesday in L.A. Unified’s first annual breakfast recipe contest.
Letters: Thumbs up for iPads in schools – LA Times
Re “iPads...
Debra Duardo: From Drop-Out to Drop-Out Preventer... →
A doctoral student in the Educational Leadership Program, Debra Duardo serves as LAUSD’s Executive Director of Health and Human Services.
Read her incredible story of triumph and how her personal experiences led her down a career path to support at risk youth in LAUSD.
April 2013
49 posts
LAUSD in the News
Granada Hills Charter wins third consecutive national academic decathlon – Daily News
Granada Hills Charter High School is bringing home the U.S. Academic Decathlon Nationals trophy for its third consecutive year.
Crooner takes note of an East L.A. high school – LA Times
Tony Bennett and his wife, Susan Benedetto, check out Esteban E. Torres High School as they expand their New York-based student...
