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A Charter With Its Hand in the Cookie Jar?

May 18, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

“It was discussed how and why Granada is running in the red” – El Camino Real Charter High School Board Meeting Minutes, September 18, 2013 Under California law, Associated Student Body (ASB) organizations are “student organizations that are established to raise and spend money on behalf of students”. These funds are supposed to enhance the education […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, State Education Law, Uncategorized Tagged With: Associated Student Body, FCMAT, Granada Hills Charter High School, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division

Education Should be Based on our Children’s Needs

May 15, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

On May 11, 2016, the Office of the Independent Monitor held public hearings and “parents of children with IEPs [Individual Education Plan] and all other members of the LAUSD community [were] invited to provide comments to Dr. David Rostetter”. The following is a copy of my testimony before Dr. Rostetter’s office: Two of my triplets […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: Chanda Smith, LAUSD, Mainstreaming, Modified Consent Decree, Office of the Independent Monitor, OIM, Special Education

#?@$ Chi Minh Provides an Example of Censorship in Schools

May 8, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

As a child the first thing I did when presented with a new dictionary was check for the swear words. I already knew what they meant, but their presence validated the authenticity of the reference; if I could be trusted to know that these words existed, then surely the rest of the contents were worth […]

Filed Under: Free Speech Tagged With: Censorship, Internet Filters

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Federal Policy

Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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