First published on solidaridad on March 19, 2015 “The shady nature of Alliance’s real estate dealings, their dismal SAT scores and CSU remediation rates, and their refusal to educate every child are all compelling… [a]llowing these private entities to cherry pick students and avoid educating the most vulnerable and needy students is immoral. Taking a […]
Archives for March 2015
Open letter to Andrew Thomas regarding the LAUSD District 5 runoff
Dr. Andrew Thomas: Congratulations on your respectable election finish, and on noting on your website that out-of-town billionaires are financing the campaign of charter industry profiteer Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez against an incumbent endorsed by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). Your analysis ignores the fact that most UTLA teachers are also public school parents, live […]
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) March General Assembly
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) General Assembly Thursday, March 19, 2015 4:30-6:30PM St. Marks Lutheran Church 3651 South Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (2 blocks north of the Expo line’s Vermont station) Following an invigorating Parent Institute this past Saturday, parents are full of ideas for how to move our work into the […]
How do Karin Klein and Los Angeles Times define “high-performing”?
Sent to the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 2015 Re: Teachers at Alliance charter group push to form union http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-alliance-charter-story.html The author here calls the Alliance’s corporate chain a “high-performing charter group”. I’m curious if that inaccurate designation came directly from either Alliance’s or the California Charter Schools Association’s marketing departments? Despite claiming that […]
Pearson Is NOT “Spying” On Student Tweets, It’s Enlisting Public School Officials To Defend Its Intellectual Property
Cynthia Liu is CEO/Founder of K-12 News Network. Bob Braun, an education blogger and former journalist, got ahold of a note from a school superintendent advising parents in the district that a student in NJ had tweeted outside of school hours about a PARCC test he had completed earlier when school was still in session.* […]
Guest Post: Who is paying for Tamar Galatzan’s flashy mailers?
An anonymous parent sent this informative Op Ed. Have you noticed how Tamar Galatzan is stuffing your mailbox? Where is Tamar getting all this money? Tamar Galatzan, running for Board District 3, has been a disaster for LAUSD. In 2011, she authored a resolution to increase technology and took full credit when disgraced […]