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As Strike Looms, LAUSD Special Education Practices Come Into Focus

December 23, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

With District leaders openly hostile towards the needs of students in special education classes, can the union extract essential changes?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Special ed, Uncategorized Tagged With: ADA, Contract Talks, LAUSD, March for Public Ed, March for Public Education, Mónica García, Special Education, Strike

KLCS Dismissed

December 16, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Austin Beutner you can’t hide, we can see your greedy side. LAUSD Parents and Students As if the responsibility for educating 694,096 students was not enough, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) also owns and operates a television station. KLCS is part of the Public Broadcasting System and one of the Los Angeles homes […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: KLCS, LAUSD, protest, Public Meetings

The NRA Misses the Target with Their “Good Guy with a Gun” Strategy

December 13, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

The tragic circumstances at the Borderline Bar & Grill shooting demonstrate the fatal flaw in the NRA’s alternative to passing gun control.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Gun Control, NRA, School Safety, School Shootings

Dismantling Our Public Schools

December 7, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

The District representatives were not helpful in suggesting remedies” – Cheryl Ortega Under what circumstances should the police be called on a five-year-old child? According to parents at Mayberry Elementary School in the Silver Lake/Echo Park area of Los Angeles, the principal has called the Los Angeles Police Department about students under her charge on […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California Charter School Association, CCSA, Jackie Goldberg, LAUSD Board District 5, Mayberry Elementary School, Ref Rodriguez, Scott Schmerelson, Special Election

Mayberry Elementary Parents Dissatisfied With Principal’s Police Summons For Kindergartner’s Behavior

December 3, 2018 by cheryl ortega

By Cheryl Ortega On Friday, Nov 29 at 6:00 PM about 200 parents and neighborhood council members attended a meeting at Mayberry Elementary School in Silver Lake/Echo Park that had been requested by petition to Roberto Martinez, LAUSD Local Superintendent, through 40 school parents called Mayberry Amigos. The parents asserted that over some months there […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School discipline, School Districts, School to prison pipeline

The LAUSD Widget Factory

December 2, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall” – Roger Waters The Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) School Experience Survey is an opportunity for parents and guardians to grade the District’s performance. Included in this questionnaire are important statements  such as “Reports of bullying are taken seriously at this school” and “This […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Higher Ed, School Report Cards

LAUSD’s Board District 5 Is Still Unrepresented

November 20, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

We are living at a time in our nation when democracy and true representative government is being attacked and eroded at every level of leadership” – LAUSD Board Member Scott Schmerelson It has been almost three months since the LAUSD School Board rejected Board Member Scott Schmerelson’s “Providing a Voice and a Vote for the […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: Dr. George McKenna, Justine Gonzalez, Nick Melvoin, Ref Rodriguez, Richard Vladovic, Rocio Rivas, Scott Schmerelson, Speak Up

LAUSD Increases Salary Offer, Teachers Hold Out for Students

November 14, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Salary: 6% on-schedule raise, including 3% retroactive for 2017-18, plus 3% raise for 2018-19” – LAUSD The LAUSD has already signed contracts with their other major unions that “included raises totaling about 6%.” It was, therefore, unclear why the District’s initial offer to the teachers was to only raise their salaries by 2%. This seemed […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized, Unionism Tagged With: class size, LAUSD, March for Public Education, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

Supporting Parents and Students

November 11, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

“We stand with our teachers’ union, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), in calling for a real investment in our neighborhood public schools, so that all students have an equal opportunity.” – Northridge East Neighborhood Council The Northridge East Neighborhood Council (NENC) is one of 99 Neighborhood Councils in the City of Los Angeles. These Councils […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Unionism Tagged With: LAUSD, Parent Activism, Schools Students Deserve, Strike, UTLA

Tony Thurmond Feels The Heat

November 4, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

I believe that it’s time to make our public education system in California among the greatest in the nation, and I have a plan to take us there.” – Tony Thurmond Like a lot of other politicians who have been labeled “anti-charter school,” Tony Thurmond has not called for the end of these publicly funded […]

Filed Under: Elections Tagged With: California Charter School Association, CCSA, Marshall Tuck, Privatization, Public Education, Tony Thurmond

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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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