The LAUSD Board is set to discuss the “Board Meeting Accessibility to the Public” resolution at Committee of the Whole meeting on Tuesday.
Candidate Red Flags: Democracy Lies In Your Vote in the Special Election, March 5th, 2019
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.
Public Support For UTLA Demands Is A Rejection of Beutner Et Al’s Top Down, Discredited, and Out of Touch Profiteering
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 […]
There Shouldn’t Be An LAUSD Strike (Read On, It’s Not What You Think)
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 […]
Are Ticket Scalpers Missing an Opportunity at These School Board Meetings?
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 […]
Six Ways to Boost Parent Attendance at LAUSD School Board Meetings — Support This Resolution!
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 […]
Was the Public Deceived in the LAUSD Superintendent Search?
Is this for real?” – LAUSD Board Member Scott Schmerelson When the East Area Progressive Democrats filed a complaint with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office regarding alleged violations of California’s Brown Act, LAUSD Board member Scott Schmerelson’s Public Statement was used as Exhibit A. In releasing this document, Schmerelson exposed that the Board had […]
Complaint Alleges LAUSD Board Violated the Brown Act
None of you should be making all these decisions in private and without the input of the public.” – Former LAUSD Board Member, Jackie Goldberg In 1953, the California legislature declared that “the people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know […]
¡Ref Rodriguez: RESIGN!
LAUSD School Board Member Ref Rodriguez continues to represent LAUSD stakeholders while accused of felony crimes. Please sign this petition demanding his resignation. En Español: ¡Ref Rodríguez: RENUNCIA! Ref Rodriguez has been charged with felony “…conspiracy, perjury and procuring and offering a false or forged instrument, as well as 25 misdemeanor counts related to alleged […]
LAUSD Stakeholders Are Not Reading From An Open Book
Access to information concerning the conduct of the people’s business is a fundamental and necessary right of every person in this state” – California Government Code When LAUSD Superintendent Michelle King first disappeared from the halls of the Beaudry Building “some insiders said she injured herself in an accident while on vacation with her family.” […]