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Nick Melvoin Moves to Cut Public Speaking Time

May 4, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Ignoring the proposed “Board Meeting Accessibility to the Public” resolution, LAUSD Board Member Nick Melvoin seeks less public input on education issues.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, Uncategorized Tagged With: Board Meeting Accessibility to the Public, Board Rules, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, Nick Melvoin, Open Meetings, Scott Schmerelson

The Los Angeles Times’ History of Putting Kids Last

April 16, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

As the paper of record for those who want to privatize our education system, the Los Angeles Times endorses a candidate for the LAUSD School Board even after saying that she does not have any “insightful or original” ideas. They did have good things to say about Jackie Goldberg.

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Heather Repenning, Jackie Goldberg, LAUSD, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Unified School District, Ref Rodriguez, Tamar Galatzan

The LAUSD School Board’s Secret Committee

April 7, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

LAUSD Board President Monica Garcia and Vice-President Nick Melvoin both make reference to a Rules Committee that has not held any public meetings. Where is the transparency?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Board Rules, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Mónica García, Nick Melvoin, Open Government, Rules Committee

LAUSD School Board Member Scott Schmerelson Steps Up

March 29, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

It appears that the “Board Meeting Accessibility to the Public” resolution has found the sponsor that it needed to move on toward Board approval.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Austin Beutner, Kelly Gonez, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Nick Melvoin, Open Government, Scott Schmerelson

If the LAUSD’s Goal is “Parent Engagement”, What is the Plan of Action?

March 25, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The LAUSD Board is set to discuss the “Board Meeting Accessibility to the Public” resolution at Committee of the Whole meeting on Tuesday.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Open Government

Candidate Red Flags: Democracy Lies In Your Vote in the Special Election, March 5th, 2019

March 4, 2019 by Dr. Rocio Rivas

Jackie Goldberg is the only clear choice to stop the plan between Eli Broad and the public officials he has purchased from making sure LAUSD fails and is broken apart.

Filed Under: Call to Action, Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Allison Bajracharya, Eli Broad, Heather Repenning, Jackie Goldberg, Jose Huizar, LAUSD, Ref Rodriguez, School board elections

Public Support For UTLA Demands Is A Rejection of Beutner Et Al’s Top Down, Discredited, and Out of Touch Profiteering

January 18, 2019 by cynthia

In Superintendent Austin Beutner’s Los Angeles Unified, it’s as if the 2018 elections never happened, or that Donald Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education had never turned a glaring klieg light on the avarice of “school choice” Democrats under Obama who suddenly found themselves aligned with voucher-loving, charter school-pushing megadonors to the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Austin Beutner, LAUSD, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

There Shouldn’t Be An LAUSD Strike (Read On, It’s Not What You Think)

January 13, 2019 by Brad

Op-Ed: THERE SHOULD BE NO STRIKE By Richard Wagoner Leaders and Board members of Los Angeles Unified School District would like the public to believe that the looming teachers strike is all about salary. Indeed, it could easily be: teachers have not received a raise in three years, the request by the Union (and the […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, Too Good For the LA TImes, Unionism

Are Ticket Scalpers Missing an Opportunity at These School Board Meetings?

September 28, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Numbered wristbands will be distributed by District security officers to individuals in line outside of the Board Room doors starting at 8 a.m. Those who wish to attend this meeting should reassemble in numerical order by 12 noon to enter the Board Room and, if interested, to sign up to speak.” – LAUSD Before the […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Board Meeting Accessibility to the Public, California Charter School Association, CCSA, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, parent engagement

Six Ways to Boost Parent Attendance at LAUSD School Board Meetings — Support This Resolution!

September 27, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Thanks to the Brown Act, by law, public meetings of school boards in the state of California are  made accessible to the public for attendance and comment. But almost two-thirds of parents in two parent households work outside the home, as do about the same numbers of single-parent families. Meetings held during daytime working hours […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, Uncategorized Tagged With: Accountability, LAUSD School Board

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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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