Joining Forces for Education was formed in response to Ben Austin’s public school bulldozer outfit, the Walton Family Foundation funded Parent Revolution. Ellen Lubic occasionally contributes to Professor Ravitch’s site. The Real Marshall Tuck, and Why He Insures My Vote for Tom Torlakson for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Now that the billionaires such […]
Archives for 2014
LAUSD Parents Insist on a Civil Grand Jury Investigation of iPads/MiSiS Deals
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, a group of parents with children in Los Angeles Unified announced that they had filed a request for the Los Angeles Superior Court Civil Grand Jury to investigate and audit the botched iPad rollout and the ongoing MiSiS software meltdown. Saying “Angelenos don’t have an extra $200 million of public […]
Important information for the critical Torlakson v. Tuck election
“…raises significant concerns that [Marshall Tuck run] PLAS continues to disregard state law, regulation, and LAUSD policy and is failing to implement transparent and uniform procedures to ensure parent and student rights are protected.” — MALDEF / Public Counsel I’ve followed Tuck’s career since he graduated from Broad’s Urban Residency. I think there’s a chance […]
Reply to Sandy Banks’ “Deasy’s Exit Leaves Unfinished Work At LAUSD”
Barbara Landis is a native southern Californian (3rd generation — her grandparents came to LA before 1900), and the parent of three children who attended elementary, middle and high school in LAUSD. She also teaches in an independent K-12 school in the Valley. Sandy Banks is right. There’s plenty of work, unfinished and never begun at […]
BREAKING: LAUSD Parents Seek Los Angeles Superior Court Civil Grand Jury Investigation/Audit Into iPads and MiSiS Debacles
BREAKING: this morning, LAUSD parents filed a citizen complaint to ask that the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Civil Grand Jury investigate/audit the iPad and MiSiS deals that were costly but seemed highly ineffective. They want an independent body outside of LAUSD to conduct its own investigation. The Civil Grand Jury consists of 23 residents of […]
Marshall Tuck Betrays Latino and African American Parents
By Cheryl Ortega, Director of Bilingual Education, UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). Cheryl Ortega taught for 38 years in kindergarten and primary education bilingual programs in LAUSD. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of UTLA as Director of Bilingual Education. She worked with Marshall Tuck and PLAS for a year at the request of parents […]
Marshall Tuck endorsed discredited and disgraced John Deasy
Plagued by multiple scandals, missteps, mismanagement, and allegations of possible malfeasance, discredited and disgraced John Deasy resigned in ignominy from the post of Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Superintendent on October 16, 2014. Marshall Tuck, who failed miserably at both Green Dot Corporate Charters and the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, was among Deasy’s […]
The Deasy Debacle: Six New Rules for a New Superintendent
By Roberta Eidman, MPH. She is a community member and resident of Los Angeles interested in a healthy public commons and excellent public schools for ALL children. The Deasy era was never really about Public Education. It was never really about the kids, or their parents, or the future of Los Angeles as a cultural […]
Media Round-Up on John Deasy’s Resignation As Superintendent of LAUSD
Superintendent John Deasy's Letter of Resignation From LAUSD 101514 The LA Times has this report, “John Deasy resigns; Ramon Cortines named interim head of L.A. schools”: As part of the separation agreement, Deasy will remain on paid “special assignment” with the district through the end of 2014. Under that arrangement he would receive more than […]
ICYMI: Video Highlights From the Network For Public Education’s PUBLIC “Education Nation”
MSNBC has a show that is practically a commercial for the privatization of public education called “Education Nation.” Fans of charter schools, “school choice,” and other trendy approaches to education that enrich ed tech companies are all invited. Voices of those who feel the public education system — for all its flaws — is worthwhile […]