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The LAUSD Turns A Blind Eye as Charters Cherry-Pick Their Students

June 16, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

The LAUSD Turns A Blind Eye as Charters Cherry-Pick Their Students

It is time to answer his question.” – Scott Schmerelson, LAUSD Board Member As I have reported previously, Granada Hills Charter High School (GHCHS) has items on the enrollment page of their website that appear to violate the law and clearly violate their charter. During the past six months, I have been unable to get […]

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Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cherry Picking, Dr. George McKenna, El Camino Real Charter High School, Granada Hills Charter High School, IEP, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD School Board, Northridge Academy, Scott Schmerelson

Standing Up For Our Public Schools

June 10, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

Standing Up For Our Public Schools

Charters are publicly funded but privately managed and, like most privately run businesses, the schools prefer to avoid transparency in their operations.” – Bobbi Murray / Capital and Main In the past five years, the LAUSD Board had denied nine charter renewals while renewing at least 162. The charter industry, therefore, considered the Board to […]

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Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Celerity, charter fraud, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Magnolia

You Can’t Keep a Bad Charter Down

May 10, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

You Can’t Keep a Bad Charter Down

“No question about @MagnoliaSchools academic superiority – questioning your reading skills.” -Alex Johnson, VP LA County Board of Education “Specifically, the CAASPP results in ELA and Math indicate that in both 2014-15 and 2015-16, 0% of the school’s English Learner (EL) population met or exceeded proficiency.” – LA County Office of Education Staff As the […]

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Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alex Johnson, California Charter School Association, CCSA, LAUSD, Magnolia, Magnolia Charter Schools, Nick Melvoin, SB-808, Steve Zimmer

Parents to Billionaires: “Out of LA School Board Race!”

May 4, 2017 by marcy winograd

Parents to Billionaires: “Out of LA School Board Race!”

Parents, teachers, and students rallied outside Grand View Elementary School in Mar Vista on Thursday to demand LA School Board Candidate Nick Melvoin follow his opponent Steve Zimmer’s lead. Zimmer, the President of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board, does not take any money from billionaire charter school proponents seeking to influence the school board race […]

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Stacking the Deck?

April 19, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

Stacking the Deck?

“Moreover, ‘lower achieving students’ is not a protected class.” -Brian Bauer, GHCHS This week, Granada Hills Charter High School (GHCHS) will attempt to win its sixth national Academic Decathlon championship in seven years. If this were a high school sports team instead of an academic one, the improbability of this accomplishment would probably be more […]

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Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Academic Decathlon, Cherry Picking, Creaming, El Camino Real Charter High School, English Learners, GHCHS, Gifted and Talented, Granada Hills Charter High School, Palisades Charter High School, Special Education

South Pasadena Unified School District, Establish Schools as Safe Havens and Create 21st Century Learners Now

April 14, 2017 by K12NN Site Admin

South Pasadena Unified School District, Establish Schools as Safe Havens and Create 21st Century Learners Now

Dear South Pasadena Unified School District School Board, Superintendent, District Staff, and SPUSD teachers, Please establish the district as a safe haven for learners who will be shielded from ICE on or near campus and advance racial literacy and cultural competency by accelerating implementation of the ethnic studies, FAIR Act, multilingual education, and other parts […]

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Paying the Price for Monica Garcia’s Win

March 16, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

Paying the Price for Monica Garcia’s Win

If parents are not happy with the school program, it is a school of choice. They are free (and indeed encouraged) to remove their kids from the school. There are plenty of other public school options for their children.” – Mr. Tschang, former KIPP Principal As I walked off stage at the only debate in […]

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Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Arminta Street Elementary School, Charter, co-location, Imelda Padilla, Kelly Gonez, KIPP, LAUSD, Marianna Avenue Elementary School, Mónica García, Nick Melvoin, Steve Zimmer

Fighting Off a Prop-39 Parasite

March 11, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

Fighting Off a Prop-39 Parasite

Financial records obtained by The Times show that, as Celerity’s CEO, [Vielka McFarlane] paid for many of these expenses with a credit card belonging to her charter schools, which receive the bulk of their funding from the state.” – Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2017 When LAUSD denied two Celerity charter renewals in October LAUSD […]

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Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Arminta Street Elementary School, Celerity, Co-Locations, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, Prop 39, Vielka McFarlane

The Illusion of School Choice

February 27, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

The Illusion of School Choice

ASB funds can never be used to loan money to any group or individual” – GHCHS’ ASB Handbook as quoted by the LAUSD Charter School Division Although parents were never notified, the LAUSD’s Charter School Division (CSD) issued a Notice to Cure to Granada Hills Charter High School (GHCHS) on September 21, 2016. This notice […]

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Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: ASB, ECRCHS, GHCHS, LAUSD Charter School Division, Mónica García, Notice to Cure

The Real Carpetbaggers in LAUSD’s District 2

February 24, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

The Real Carpetbaggers in LAUSD’s District 2

Carpetbagger: A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction. If the photo on the front of the latest Monica Garcia flyer to hit your mailbox looks familiar, it is because it was the same one that the California Charter School Association (CCSA) used […]

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Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, California Charter School Association, CCSA, iPad, John Deasy, Mónica García, Richard Riordan, Steve Zimmer

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Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

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 […]

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Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

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 […]

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Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

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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