In the accompanying spreadsheets, the School District’s own numbers show that the School Board received $19.5M more than expected in additional unrestricted Local Control Funding Formula (state funding in the last six years. How did they spend it? Board members raised the compensation for School District employees more than $19M. The School Board also decided to deficit spend almost $14M … Read More

Second of two parts   Re “Student Learning Not Based on Teachers’ Earnings” Is spending local tax money for increasing salaries of teachers in Culver City a good use for local parcel tax revenue? Back in 2011-12, at the start of the Teachers Union’s first 5-year plan, we ranked 44th — out of 47 districts — in average teacher salary. … Read More

While watching a video of last week’s School Board meeting, online, something happened that set me back. At the one-hour, seven-minute mark, David Mielke, the Teachers Union president, was there to address the Board about School District salaries. While he was handing out an L.A. County salary survey and before he could get to the rostrum, Kathy Paspalis set the … Read More

Here is a spreadsheet that shows the count of homeless students enrolled in unified school districts throughout L.A. County. LA Co USD Homeless Count 2016-17 Enrollment was measured by counting the number of students enrolled in school on a particular day in October. The data shown was collected by the California Dept. of Education from the individual districts through the … Read More

I wrote last week that in 2014-15, our district had hired so many new teachers that almost one in five teachers (18.3 percent) in our School District were first and second year teachers with very little or no real classroom experience. The state’s Education Dept. has just released new data for the school year 2015-16. (2015-16 1st 2nd Year Teachers at Each School) Even … Read More

In the fiscal year of 2011-12, our School District had the highest percentage (12 percent) in hiring teachers with the least experience—first- and second- year teachers. This was more than double the Los Angeles County average of 5.3 percent. In 2014-15, our district was third in the county with a local record high of 18.35 percent-almost double the county average. … Read More

The School District’s Science Building never was going to be built at the Natatorium site. One of the main reasons it took so long to tear down the Natatorium: There had never really anything proposed for the site to replace it. So when the School District announced it was considering the Natatorium site for the new Science Building, this gave the School Board its reason—or was it just an … Read More

According to the Culver City Unified School District records, in 2013 it had 196 classified workers, 302 classroom teachers and 50 certificated administration. Of those employees, the District had 68 employees who cost the District over $100k to employ them. Most worked in the District administration. That year the CCUSD had an average daily attendance (ADA) of 6,600 students. Three … Read More