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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

Unanswered Questions in the Race for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction

November 1, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

We are largely unable to accept new offers to complete questionnaires” – Marshall Tuck Campaign The California Charter School Association and their allies have provided Marshall Tuck with enough cash to flood the airwaves with misleading ads, but with less than a week to go before the election, a whopping 16% of the electorate are […]

Filed Under: Elections, Uncategorized Tagged With: California, California State Superintendent of Instruction, Marshall Tuck, Tony Thurmond

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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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