Local Education News Roundup-Friday
Just days after unveiling an overhaul plan for dozens of Los Angeles' lowest-performing schools, Superintendent David Brewer III on Thursday targeted nearly 100 underachieving and long-neglected middle schools for reform.
Brewer said he hopes to roll out "personalized learning environments" at all 92 of the district's middle schools by the 2009-10 school year to raise achievement and retention rates.
The move is significant for Los Angeles Unified School District middle schools, overlooked for years as the district focused on improving elementary schools, then high schools.
"It's our way to try to create more smallness out of largeness, so we can do something more immediate," said Michelle King, deputy chief instructional officer at the LAUSD. "There's a fear there about sending youngsters to the middle school campus. ... So it's critical that we look at those needs and be able to address the concerns and allay the fears of our students and of our parents and the communities."
Click here to read the rest of the L.A. Daily News article.
Here's the L.A. Weekly's take on the payroll crisis at Los Angeles Unified.
The Daily Breeze also takes on the payroll fiasco in today's paper.
And the L.A. Times writes about four key senior executive posts filled by LAUSD Superintendent David Brewer.