LAUSD Daily Brief

Deasy: LAUSD’s future rests with voters – Daily News

Los Angeles Unified is making significant progress in improving its academic achievement and graduation rates, but future gains will be in peril if voters reject a statewide tax hike to fund public schools, Superintendent John Deasy said Monday.

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Teacher Sal Castro fights to honor the Eastside ‘blowouts’ – LA Times

Sal Castro sat in his book-lined den, reduced to writing on a whiteboard to fight what could be his last political battle.

LAUSD to promote arts education on city buses, billboards – Daily News

The campaign was announced Monday by officials with The LA Fund for Public Education, a nonprofit organization created in 2011 to help fund programs for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Some area districts ahead of the curve on new transitional kindergarten requirements – Daily Breeze

In Kelly Schumacher’s class at Cabrillo Elementary in west Hawthorne, it isn’t uncommon for students to sing songs as she strums a guitar, bake gingerbread cookies, or make Play-Doh from scratch.

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