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A Tale of Two States, CA and NV: Part III
This is Part III in a series of stories about Nevada’s economic strategy. To read the first two installments, click here and here. Nevada’s aggressive pro-business policies, and the agencies charged with selling the state, have produced decidedly mixed results.
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U.S. ranks third-last in 'numeracy'
America's low-scoring public schools are making it difficult for us to compete in future decades. The latest: “The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on Friday released the initial results of an international survey of adult
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Gov. Brown's school plan pushes money, not reform
A year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown convinced voters to pass Proposition 30 on the November 2012 ballot. It raised taxes $7 billion, with most of the money promised for K-12 schools. This year, Brown included his school-financing reform package
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Second-largest CA school district pays teachers for not teaching
Even as Gov. Jerry Brown continues to pursue his back-to-the-past education policies — de-emphasizing testing and metrics, and pushing local control — we're seeing fresh reminders that the state of California and the federal government really don't have the control
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Gov. Brown axes 2013-14 school testing for K-12
Most California’s K-12 public schools will go through the 2013-14 school year without standardized testing after Gov. Jerry Brown just signed Assembly Bill 484 into law. The following school year, 2014-15, less rigorous federal Common Core tests will begin. AB484
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New York Times immigration reporter drops pretense of objectivity
Illegal immigration is an issue of great importance in California. It affects our economy, our schools, our social services, our prisons and much more. fast shingles cure Whether you support the status quo, the proposals from President Obama or President
Read MoreAs governor contemplates teacher 'discipline' bill, fresh classroom outrage
As Gov. Jerry Brown weighs whether to sign a teacher-discipline bill that actually makes it more difficult to discipline teachers, fresh evidence turns up of bad teacher behavior in the state's largest school district, the district where the outrages occurred
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LAUSD offers reminder of pervasiveness of government incompetence
As John Seiler noted, it was completely predictable that students in L.A. Unified would figure out how to get around restrictions on their taxpayer-provided iPads. But another point that needs to be made is the sheer stinking stupidity of a
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Who pays for LAUSD’s broken or stolen iPads?
I’ve written a couple of things on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s gift of iPads to its students. In July, I predicted the kids would “jailbreak” the iPads. They did. Remember, these iPads are costing taxpayers $1 billion. That’s
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LAUSD kids ‘jailbreak’ iPads
When the Los Angeles Unified School District announced it was giving iPads to its students back in July, I predicted: “The iPads themselves might allow the kids to break out of the system and find Web sites that teach something
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