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• YEAR-END TOP 10: ill Mamis Picks Of 2009

  
  SOULBOUNCE.COM — Authority: 512
  I am a highly critical soul, especially when it comes to my first love, Music. This past year, I spent a considerable part of the year complaining about being underwhelmed about what this years musical selections were offering. In hindsight, I also spent a considerable amount of time overutilizing superlatives when it ...
  19 hours ago

• Meeting With My Sons Teacher, Reflecting on Public Education

  
  Los Angelista's Guide To The Pursuit Of Happiness — Authority: 469
  After receiving last weeks completely out of the blue, not-so-positive progress report about my third grade son, I sent back the following note on the bottom of the form that required parent signature: Dear Mrs. ********, My husband and I would like to meet with you this week to discuss this notice as well as the ...
  4 days ago

• Tyrese (Gibson) lays out his vision for "making smart sexy" at 5MK Los Angeles launch

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 138
    Tyrese does an incredible job here, laying out a passionate and articulate vision for why kids need to "make (being) smart sexy" and a priority in their lives.  5MK (5 MILLION KIDS) is a national initiative, with the first leg launched on-the-ground in partnership with LAUSD and LAUSD Superintendent Ramon ...
  4 days ago

• LAUSD: Can Parents Turn Their Kids Schools Around?

  
  LA Moms Blog — Authority: 129
  I follow news of what happens in huge, admittedly troubled Los Angeles Unified School District pretty closely. Like Chicago, New York City, and DC, Los Angeles school system is a lab for experimentation and reform. While many schools within the system are quietly doing a great job day-in and day-out, there are ...
  6 days ago

• John Hope Bryant speaking on 5MK at 5MK Los Angeles launch

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 138
    I was honored to stand with 5MK national co-chairs and icons Quincy Jones and Ambassador Andrew Young, 5MK Digital Chair QD3 (Quincy D. Jones III), 5MK leadership including California State Superintendent of Education Jack OConnell, LAUSD School Superintendent Ramon Cortines, 5MK Ambassadors Tyrese, Jeff Johnson, ...
  1 week ago

• LAUSD Knows How To Upset Me The Night Before Thanksgiving

  
  Los Angelista's Guide To The Pursuit Of Happiness — Authority: 469
  Dear LAUSD Teachers, Want to know how to 1) make yourselves look incompetent and 2) upset a parent the afternoon before Thanksgiving? Send home a progress report with a whole bunch of things checked in the column with the big frowny face. Make sure those are things you have NEVER EVER - and I do mean NEVER EVER - ...
  1 week ago

• A Tale of Two High Schools

  
  Socal Mom by Donna Schwartz Mills — Authority: 121
  This is not a good time to be a student in my state. The University of California is jacking up tuition by 20% (in addition to the rate hike students and their families absorbed earlier this year) while cutting classes and services. And it was announced yesterday that our budget woes continue to worsen: were back ...
  2 weeks ago

• Morning Briefs and Outtakes after some Huffing and Puffing at City Hall

  
  Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics — Authority: 435
  From Cheech and Chongs "Up in Smoke", "That doobie should cure my cancer for good".They came by the hundreds to witness government in action from behind the horseshoe on Spring Street.What brought out this crowd to witness 15 highly paid politicians in action? Budget cuts? DWP rate increases? Cuts... [[ This is a ...
  2 weeks ago

• State Over-Reach: Stripmining the Citizenry for Fun and Profit

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 450
  By Charles Hugh Smith, OFTWOMINDS What I term State over-reach in Survival+ is becoming pervasive as the State attempts to replace declining tax revenues by stripmining the citizenry. NOTE: the Kindle reader for PCs is now available for free which means you can read the Kindle version of Survival+ on ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Other Side Plays Dirty

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 741
  On the day that we honor veterans for defending our freedom, I read this : Community groups and Los Angeles Unified officials on Tuesday condemned an anonymous flyer handed to Latino parents that threatened them with deportation if they supported plans to convert their neighborhood school to a charter. Calling it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Should We Stay or Should We Go?: The California Planning & Development Report...

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 603
  The California Planning & Development Report rounds up the results from all of Tuesdays land use-related ballot measures. Maywood is unhappy with the proposed location of a new LAUSD school, and parts of the Santa Clarita Valley voted both to remain unincorporated and to annex to Santa Clarita. Both the stay ...
  4 weeks ago

• New San Pedro School Pleases Environmentalists, Pisses Off Preservationists

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 603
  Click the image above to view the full photogallery. [First five images via archinnovations ; last four via CO Architects ] Land has been cleared and construction will begin next year on LAUSD South Region High School #15, to be built on 28 acres on the Upper Reservation of San Pedros Fort MacArthur . The ...
  4 weeks ago

• L.IV - ENDZONE (NEW MUSIC)

  
  Eazee Street — Authority: 448
  L.IV aka L4zy Lou drops another track off of his upcoming project entitled IVComing.  The track is in ode to athletics and should serve as motivational track.  Produced by L4zy Lou (on the beat) and Poly of LAUSD.  Check it out.Endzone - L.IV
  4 weeks ago

• Polyester The Saint

  
  MOOVMNT.com — Authority: 427
  Once in a while an artist manages to take me back into time. Recently it was Cali’s Fashawn that reminded me of the Pharcyde a lot…and I do mean got me suffering from flashbacks and shit. This week I was introduced to Polyester the Saint for the first time. When listening to his typical west coast jams, [...]
  5 weeks ago

• When “For The Children” Really Isn’t

  
  Stephen Kruiser — Authority: 416
  Another Lefty feel-good idea gone horribly awry . Wow, it turns out that the best way to make non-English speaking students stop feeling isolated and make them part of American society is to make them speak English. Waiting for La Raza to condemn this as racist in 3…2… Yes, I’m about to go off on another ...
  5 weeks ago

• Insomniac Randomness = Not "Ho" Ween

  
  Los Angelista's Guide To The Pursuit Of Happiness — Authority: 469
  Hi! My name is Los Angelista and Im exhausted. Seriously, is there a 12 Step program for insomniacs? Im tired but I cant sleep. And there is WAY too much going on in my head for me to focus on just writing one thing, so youre going to have to endure some randomness from yours truly. 1) The holiday is Halloweeen, ...
  5 weeks ago

• How do 9 – 5 parents do it?

  
  FABOO MAMA — Authority: 110
  I think my kid’s school is out to make life difficult to for working parents. Last year, I complained about the lack of timely information. This year is no different. Today, the boy was sent home with a slip of paper informing me that the “Literacy Parade” (read: idiotic name for Halloween Parade) for Pre-K [...]
  5 weeks ago

• LAUSD x PAC DIV x TIRON x DOM KENNEDY INVADE SAN DIEGO

  
  Eazee Street — Authority: 448
  PAC DIV/DOM KENNEDY/TIRON AND LAUSD IN SAN DIEGO from L4ZY LOU AND POLYESTER on Vimeo.I was supposed to make it down to SD with LAUSD to peep out the antics but for other reasons I didnt make it...all good tho as L4ZY Lou hit me with the footage so that I could see what I missed as well as show all of yall.  Enjoy.
  6 weeks ago

• VIDEO: Pac Div x Dom Kennedy x TiRon x LAUSD Live In San Diego

  
  The Exactly — Authority: 130
  A few weeks back, LA’s finest in the form of Pac Div, Dom Kennedy, TiRon & LAUSD hit Daygo to give our So Cal brethren a taste of Los Angeles. I’m enjoying the idea of shows with most of LA’s up and comers on the bill, it gives people a chance to collectively take in the whole scene all in one night. And ...
  6 weeks ago

• The Good

  
  TattleTeaching — Authority:
  So often life is about the bad and the ugly.  Not today. I’m helping three of my 5th graders apply to private schools for next year. This is a private school in LA: And this is a public one: I’ll let you draw your own conclusions. The application process is, as you might imagine, lengthy and ...
  6 weeks ago

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