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The LAUSD’s Revolving Door Continues

February 27, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Board President Monica Garcia announces her run for City Council. Once again she puts her personal aspirations above the children of Los Angeles.

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, Mónica García, School board elections

The LAUSD Says: “No Voice For You!”

February 23, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

LAUSD Board Member Nick Melvoin has pledged to change the rules so that stakeholders have better access to meetings. Why won’t he act?

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Accountability, Board Meeting Accessibility to the Public, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Nick Melvoin, Transparency

L.A. Schools’ Superintendent Attempts a Coup

February 21, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Austin Beutner gets caught actively keeping information from some of his bosses on the School Board. What is he hiding?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Austin Beutner, John Deasy, LAUSD, Mónica García, Scott Schmerelson

BREAKING NEWS: Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) CFO to Leave Her Position

February 14, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Under her leadership, she has made important changes in her departments, which I expect will be sustained.” – Debra Duardo, LACOE Superintendent The Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) provides oversight over the 80 school districts within the county and can take control if it finds that any of these districts are in danger […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Austin Beutner, Brown Act, Candi Clark, Dr. George McKenna, LACOE, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Office of Education, Los Angeles Unified School District

Weaponized Journalism

February 14, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

As an investor in American Media, Inc (AMI) and the National Enquirer, did LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner learn to benefit from the world of Fake News?

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: AMI, Austin Beutner, David Pecker, Evercore, Fake News, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, National Enquirer

Failing Charter Schools and the LAUSD Board’s Choice

February 11, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Confronted by the state of California with a list of 22 low-performing charter schools, will the LAUSD School Board take action to shut them down?

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Allison Bajracharya, Allison Greenwood Bajracharya, Camino Nuevo, Charter School Accountability, Green Dot, KIPP, Low Performing Schools, NAACP Charter School Moratorium, PUC

Coverage of the LAUSD by the L.A. Daily News: News or Propaganda?

February 8, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Publishing Mark Ridley-Thomas’ anti-union editorial without disclosing his son’s financial ties is not the LA Daily News’ first breach of journalistic integrity.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: LA Daily News, LA School Report, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles News Media, Los Angeles Unified School District, The 74

The LAUSD Superintendent’s Web of Deceit

February 5, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The newly revealed lobbying contract with Sebastian Ridley-Thomas isn’t Beutner’s first dance with scandal-plagued former state assemblyman.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alex Johnson, Austin Beutner, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Mónica García, Sebastian Ridley-Thomas, UTLA

An LAUSD Star is Born

February 4, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Tyler Okeke is the student representative on the LAUSD School Board. At Tuesday’s meeting, he made sure the voice of his fellow students was heard.

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: California Charter School Association, Campaign finance, CCSA, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, Moratorium, Nick Melvoin, Tyler Okeke

Los Angeles Asks For a Charter School Pause

February 2, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The LAUSD School Board resists intense pressure from the charter school industry to ask the state for a moratorium on new charter schools.

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Board Meeting Accessibility to the Public, California Charter School Association, CCSA, Granada Hills Charter High School, Kids First, LAUSD, NAACP Charter School Moratorium, Nick Melvoin, North Valley Military Institute, Scott Schmerelson

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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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