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The new LA Mayor, Garcetti, is doing a decent job not being a total waste of space. He's pretty tepid, but can anyone picture him for a Governorship?
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litany of gulps posted:From my own experience working within these educational reform movements, it doesn't really come down to firing the ineffective teachers. The older teachers get run out on a rail, generally targeted aggressively by administrators from the beginning of the school year. After that, everyone that doesn't fit the mold gets the axe. Once you start getting 50% turnover within a school year after year, it's very easy for administration to sort of break the preexisting culture of a school and replace it with something else. He was almost fired early on because a janitor complained he was on school too early. He received massive pushback from others because he was establishing an 'elite' program. And when the administrator that had his back eventually left the school, the new bosses dismantled his program. Keep in mind also that while everyone loves to rattle off the chicano miracle, the LA school district did jack poo poo in terms of learning from him. So the question to ask is, why does the lawsuit look to punish bad teachers, instead of find ways to promote the actions of good teachers?
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Jun 11, 2014 19:59
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^^^ Clearly dude won't get his sweet cut so he's against that. Slobjob Zizek posted:Okay, so it's people selling off their spots when they leave. Obviously that is illegal. Interesting question: would it be illegal to remove the bidding part, but to make it social? I.e. to alert friends, goons, etc. that you will have a spot free?
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Jul 1, 2014 05:10
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Leperflesh posted:
 because gently caress You,but why in the gently caress are we not covering golf courses with astroturf. The amount of water to keep Not So Shady Acres verdant is just stupid.
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Aug 7, 2014 22:04
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Only in the California thread would some doofus call a community an hour from the beach and whose average temperature high only breaks 90 during the summers as "hot and far from the ocean". 
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Sep 3, 2014 19:53
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Zeitgueist posted:Kevin and Bean are awful. (Mainly because they make hay about their faults, and because their bits can go hideously awry every now and then). Plus they speak the truth about the mudpeople. As for trafficChat, I swear to god 90% of the problem is dickwads that turn a 65mph highway into a 20mph rubbernecker's paradise. The times I've seen a jam sprout up because some Lexus got dinged... 
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Sep 3, 2014 22:04
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Khanna's response? A pivot to his well-worn attack on Honda's attendance record. I guess he somehow thinks that that's more important than his stances on substantive issues. Eagerly waiting for his reverse social welfare bakesale day.
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Oct 7, 2014 17:03
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computer parts posted:So, become a Raiders fan.
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Oct 15, 2014 22:06
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Already sent in my mail-in ballot atop the pile of Fremont Democratic ballots that will bury Kashkari, almost certainly bury Peter Kuo, and hopefully keep Honda in over Khanna. In LA news, the LAUSD's wonderful Superintendent is stepping down. Was it because of his Billion Dollar iPad fiasco? Was it because a floor full of IT specialists in the District HQ forgot that 500,000 students hammering a Smarter Balanced server would cause it to fail like a Warcraft launch? Was it because the district's hasty move to an online student information system (replacing a command line interface that only ran on Windows XP) ruined a school's schedule? 
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Oct 20, 2014 22:13
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Hawkgirl posted:Oh man, what a terrible and awful surprise. I remember him being a complete rear end in a top hat on NPR a year or two ago, I'm glad he finally can't gently caress up LAUSD any worse now.  the breaking point was recently, when he was before a court and testified that it was the District/Board that hosed up Jefferson High School's Master Schedule by not providing leadership during their troubles.That's when the board went to Ramon Cortines (the Sup. Predecessor) who basically Palpatined up and asked that the board unanimously ask Deasy to step down/approve Cortines. As a final gently caress y'all, Deasy's resignation stipulated the board send out a nicely worded goodbye thanks for all the good work email, and the possibility of letting his iPad bungle slide.
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Oct 21, 2014 07:16
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Bizarro Watt posted:Out of curiosity, could an LA-area residents give their thoughts on Garcetti's term as mayor so far? He's been pretty non-controversial, came off very average due to his off the cuff cuss a few months ago. I think his biggest critique so far involved the recent tax bonuses to Hollywood and the Made in L.A. music fair in DTLA being a bit too friendly to moneyed promoters. I think he's also a big fan of the idiotic NFL Stadium in DTLA (let's run the ConCenter to do it!), so that's a strike. LA is currently going through an infrastructure crisis (100 year old water mains are popping through the westside on a disturbingly regular basis), so he probably gets some bad juju for the work crews that impede traffic while they're being fixed. As of yet the dude hasn't tried to charterize schools or stamp down the teacher's union, so on the education front he's pretty OK. (John Deasy, who resigned as LA superintendent of schools due to his billion dollar iPad boondoggle/a messed up student information system rollout that rivals ACA for ineptness, was a Villaraigosa appointee). He's also backed a MinWage hike to 13.25, as well as made noise about adding affordable housing. So basically some nice progressive action that we'll have to wait and see about. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Nov 1, 2014 |
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cmerepaul posted:Or, apparently, anything.  It's actually easier to cut funding for support programs and positions, wait 2 years as grad rates crash and dropout rates hike, charterize/magnetize the whole facility and bring in some TFA burnouts! The problem is sometimes you end up displacing really talented, driven people and it bites you in the rear end. But not often enough for it to mean anything.
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Nov 5, 2014 19:51
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Zeitgueist posted:I know at least 3 teachers who've lost their jobs (one was a bilingual harvard grad who was an amazing science teacher and worked at ~a charter~) in the last year. I mean, it's not like education is a social good, or like we have a vested interest in promoting progressive education for future generations. It's numbers on a balance sheet beep boop blop.
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Nov 5, 2014 19:58
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Willa Rogers posted:I can't believe the insurance-regulation prop lost. Only 40 percent in favor. Ads for it were clever, in that they had a "IT'S ATTACKING OBAMACARE" slant to a few. Reminds me of the scattershot approach that Prop 8 took.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:12
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Minarchist posted:I like calling it "behind the Orange Curtain" or just "OC" since "the OC" reminds me of terrible Laguna Beach/Balboa Island rich kid TV drama. Those were documentaries filmed in real time. Nothing you can say will sway me of this fact. [/quote]But saying "The 101" is perfectly acceptable, saying "I'm on 101" just sounds so weird to me, saying "I'm on I-5" is okay though. [/quote] That's because you're essentially saying "I'm on the 101 [freeway]". Drop the numbered designation and you're still saying "I'm on the freeway". Losing the "the" gives you "I'm on freeway", which makes you sound special.
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Dec 5, 2014 01:16
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Leperflesh posted:Except it's actually like saying "I'm on California State Highway 101", which is the actual name of the road, but you're leaving off the beginning parts. You wouldn't say "I'm on the California State Highway 101," so saying "I'm on the 101" just makes you sound retarded. "I'm on the Highway" is perfectly fine, though. And if you're going overly long, "I'm on the california state highway, route 101" is fine too. And still makes you sound like less of a mongoloid than just saying "on 101" Unless you want to shorten it to "I'm on route 101". That I find acceptable. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Dec 5, 2014 |
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Dec 5, 2014 01:36
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Minarchist posted:To be honest either/or is good and getting mad about it is dumb as long as you know what the other person means it's all good! v
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Trabisnikof posted:The city of Angles. Pendejo. quote:It's asinine to insist on strict grammatical correctness when having a casual conversation about something, But hey, at least you're not a mudperson from the 909, brah. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Dec 5, 2014 |
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Dec 5, 2014 04:34
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Bizarro Watt posted:And amusingly, LA county only has 5. Now I'm just wondering if 5 is the minimum required. Inane question, but I was curious.
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Dec 5, 2014 23:05
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FRINGE posted:What good does it do for the city? So instead, now it looks like Hawthorne/Inglewood will try to host it. Might be a boon to homeowners down there. If traffic doesn't suck donkey dicks. Also there's this idea that a major metropolitan locale needs an NFL team to be a Big City or something.
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Feb 10, 2015 09:39
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Leperflesh posted:In other words, LA drivers have enormous amounts of practice driving really badly, so now they're really really "good" at driving terribly. Google's autonomous cars can't get here quickly enough.
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Feb 12, 2015 19:09
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Before we tear everything down, I'd like to introduce a bill that makes it mandatory for Californians to refer to Highway and Freeways by the One True Pronoun of The. The 101. The 405. Bay Area resident are exempt because gently caress their backwards ways. In other news LA wants to change their school board and city reps election dates to coincide with National Presidential elections. This would cause.more people to turn out. It might also bloat the gently caress out of the $$ necessary to compete in those races 
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Feb 13, 2015 07:13
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Sydin posted:I'd be okay with this. I-ism is the acceptable alternative for transplants.
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Feb 13, 2015 07:20
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Zeitgueist posted:I'm not convinced that this rule is going to make everyone leave LA if they weren't already. Every company whines that they're moving/have moved whenever regulation happens. And there's a ton of technical crossover in LA like lighting, editing, sound, etc that's very convenient. It won't be as comfortable as calling up Bob and Discount Lighting and Jizzmops.
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Feb 21, 2015 17:29
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Forceholy posted:Pete Wilson has been a thorn in the side of California Republicans when it comes to courting Hispanic voters. He shows up outside the window whispering "La Miiiiiiiiiigrraaaaaaa"
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Feb 21, 2015 23:02
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San Diego could be america's finest city , if only if they kicked out all the dumbasses that live there. Or summarily excommunicate anyone that's over 50 to Texas and/or Florida. The place is beautiful as all gently caress, but goddamn are the residents shitheads.
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Feb 22, 2015 10:11
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nm posted:Then why does it say this: Guerilla marketing for the NWA movie. Also a protest. Its the new thing.
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Mar 4, 2015 05:24
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FRINGE posted:UCSC was laid out to minimize the ability to do anything like this in response to various historical UCB happenings. (Anecdotal story from UCSC professor.) It would make a lot of sense if it were true. UC Merced is basically out in the middle of old cow fields and farmland. It's a bitch to get there by car. I can't imagine anyone would march out of that into Mercedtown easily.
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Mar 4, 2015 18:35
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kurona_bright posted:Bit tangential, but there's a memorial by the Revelle Plaza fountain now for him. krnhotwings posted:If you want a prime example of sunk cost fallacy, this is it. But it only runs on WinXP, as the virtualized environment in 7 is janky. And XP is nearing its end of life, leaving an entire district with its core student database running on potentially unsupported hardware. Ouch. So in 2009 they hire out a new system ISIS, which is web based. But they didn't allocate any money for bug squashing and support. So they got a half-baked system that didn't work for poo poo that they couldn't fix. Awesome! Thankfully they learned their lesson and hired internal coders, working with Microsoft on a newer replacement for the replacement called MySIS. Which is also broken (it deleted the ENTIRE master scheduling data for a school two days before the year started. Randomly) but far more functional than the last pile of poo poo they tried to launch. We're 3/4 of the way into the year and the integrated grade book function is vaporware, college counselors have had to compute GPAs by hand (and certify them to colleges themselves because that didn't work either), and the old superintendent has been fired. Just hearing about when they upgraded the payroll system in the early 2000s makes me 
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Ron Jeremy posted:
Also, huge laughs for it being out in the middle of white-bread country.
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Mar 6, 2015 01:44
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enraged_camel posted:Wow, really? That's very strange. I wanted to do a jig on the fucker's grave. But if you look carefully you can spot more than a few CCTV cameras. Its also a stone's throw from administrative offices and the mess hall. So while there may not be beefy Matrix looking agents constantly on vigil, its very unlikely that one could get past the barrier and get away Scot free.
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Mar 6, 2015 08:11
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Trabisnikof posted:. But the idea that farmers should just give up water they bought for free isn't.
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Mar 15, 2015 09:52
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Enigma89 posted:No talk about our Dear UC President? I suppose organizing all the UC students to not pay their next bills would be ... difficult.
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Mar 20, 2015 20:36
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Dismantle the UC system, start fresh. Not a single fucker on the signee's list obtained an undergrad degree after 1980. Boomer fucks can go stuff themselves. I'm not helping Napolitano throw a temper tantrum.
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Mar 25, 2015 23:43
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enraged_camel posted:I don't get what the big deal is... Just like when the
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Mar 27, 2015 22:14
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Are we still talking about housing issues? Then how about that case SCOCA heard yesterday, California Building Industry Association v. City of San Jose which seeks to strike down San Jose's inclusionary housing ordinance. Builders claim it's discriminatory and unfairly penalizes them without cause. Cuz that's some impressively blackhearted lawyering there if it is.
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Apr 9, 2015 17:59
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Sydin posted:The ride never ends. I'm Hoping he's dumb enough to keep whittling Down his fortunes on a fool's errand. Though, he should really invest in Time Travel tech so he can go back and Ro-minate Pete Wilson before his pet prop salted the Republican Party of Hispanics for like 50 years...
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May 27, 2015 06:18
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incoherent posted:Dexter theorycrafting: Would dexter go after the DA or the killer if they got off on this travesty? Murder-Suicide frame job.
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Jun 3, 2015 18:15
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Leperflesh posted:Naw, I'm talking about blatantly penalizing American citizens for being from another state.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Meanwhile, I am not happy to learn that assholes with drones are keeping firefighters from being able to fly helicopters into the North Fire, the one that crosses I-15. I have no idea how anybody's going to be able to regulate private drones, but they're a menace in many other ways, notably invasions of privacy. Dronewarz
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