The Los Angeles Times is revisiting the Wake County school diversity fight with a Sunday article that talks about the "turmoil" that has been brought about by ending the diversity policy.

In today's article, which is relatively short on data but heavy on quotes from speakers at the Cary High reassignment public hearing, it's stated that "Wake County has become a test of diversity policies nationwide."

The LA Times had also written about the controversy last March after the school board's vote on the community schools directive.

Wake County school board member John Tedesco wants the school district to do its own teacher effectiveness report following the much-discussed study done recently in Los Angeles.

As noted in today's Triangle Politics column, Tedesco is hailing the findings in the study of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers that was reported Sunday in the Los Angeles Times. The newspaper's analysis of the data is challenging some popular conceptions about teacher effectiveness.

"It's everything we're saying," Tedesco said "We have to get the best teachers in front of the kids. The most highly certified teachers are not necessarily the most effective teachers. We need to get the right teachers in front of the kids instead of shuffling kids around."

A Sunday Los Angeles Times article is challenging some popular conceptions about which teachers are effective and where they work.

The newspaper analyzed student records in the Los Angeles Unified School System to perform a value-added analysis of teacher effectiveness. The newspaper's plan to post online a database of the results of 6,000 elementary school teachers has produced an uproar, including a mass boycott from the teacher's union.

Findings included:

Turner Broadcasting is in hot water with mogul/Oprah friend Tyler Perry, according to the Los Angeles Times.

It all started when satirist Aaron McGruder came hard on Perry on the Father's Day episode of "The Boondocks," the cartoon that appears on the Turner-owned Cartoon Network, during its late night Adult Swim programming.

In the episode, a character very much like Tyler Perry offers the grandfather in "The Boondocks" a chance at fame. Winston Jerome is portrayed as a closeted cross-dresser who uses religion as a cover and a weapon. He's also a really bad writer. It's sometimes hilarious, sometimes homophobic and overall,  scathing. Naturally, Perry didn't like it one bit.

The national coverage of the Wake County school system's move away from busing for diversity is escalating.

NBC's "Today Show" did a live shot from a Wake school this morning. Also today, the Los Angeles Times covered Tuesday's vote in favor of neighborhood schools.

The Christian Science Monitor covered the story yesterday. You may also see coverage soon in the Economist, which had a writer at the board meeting.

UPDATE

Changed the link for the LA Times article in case you want to leave comments there.

See end of post for link to watch Today Show segment.

But you'll probably be paying more.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that News Corp. struck a new deal that will keep its Fox-owned television stations and several of its cable networks on Time Warner Cable.

The agreement was reached late this afternoon, but a series of extensions meant that Fox channels never went dark.

Fox, the paper reports, had initially been seeking $1 per subscriber each month for its television stations. Time Warner Cable’s initial response was to offer 25 cents to 30 cents. The terms of the new deal could not be immediately learned, but industry observers and analysts had been predicting that the price tag would ultimately be 50 cents or less for Fox.

In North Carolina, no more than 18 percent of the students in a freshman class at a public university can be from out of state. This is a hard rule, one taken quite seriously. If a university crosses this line two years in a row, it gets penalized.

The point is to provide enough higher education access to North Carolinians, even if individual campuses might long for a bump in that ceiling - if for no other reason that non-resident students pay a premium for a UNC system education.

Here's the breakdown. Just click on #2 to find current tuition rates.

California has no set regulation limiting the number of out-of-state students allowed at public universities. Still, the University of California system, mired in the same sort of budget misery as many public university systems are right now, are viewing those non-residents as cash cows of a sort.

So reports the Los Angeles Times. In a recent article, the newspaper reveals that some university officials in California are considering bringing in more out-of-state students to bolster the coffers;  in-state students in California pay $8,100 in tuition and fees; out-of-staters pay $20,000 more than that, according to the story.