Following up to our email exchange of last week, attached for your reference is a redacted UCP complaint. As you can see, most of the information has been redacted due to confidentiality issues.” -LAUSD, Office of the General Counsel After declaring that they had “no further documents to provide”, the LAUSD finally emailed one of […]
Archives for February 2016
A Parasite In Search of a Host
The ASNC Board moves to send a letter to the LAUSD in opposition to current plan for a Celerity Charter School to move into the Bushnell School.” -Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council The charter industry likes to argue that they are providing choices for parents. Unfortunately, this choice is sometimes made at the barrel of a […]
Obstruction in the “Public Interest”?
At the present time, we have no further documents to provide you and you cannot request over and over that we search and search again and again. You cannot continue to ask that we provide you with documents that are non-existent, confidential, exempt, or subject to the deliberative process.” -LAUSD, Office of the General Counsel […]
Lawsuit Opens Door To Potential Student Data Privacy Breach: California Parents Opt Out Here By April 1, 2016
By Jeanne Berrong Parents of California schoolchildren: If your child was or has been a student in California public schools since January, 2008, their personal records will be released to a private party as the result of a lawsuit filed by a non-profit requesting public records. That means their social security numbers, mental health records, […]
Suckling at the Taxpayer’s Teet
The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” -Gordon Gekko, “Wall Street” In 2014, the salary for the highest paid Secondary Principal in the LAUSD was $159,503.88. In fulfilling their “desire to make the GHCHS [Granada Hills Charter High School] Executive Director position one of the top […]
Looking For Solutions, Not To Be Placated
Placate: “to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures” -Dictionary.com Executive Director Brian Bauer’s response to my inquiry fit a pattern that has become distressingly familiar. During my inspection of documents requested under the California Public Records Act, Bauer’s assistant had told me that, under Granada Hills Charter High School (GHCHS) policy, I […]