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The LAUSD’s Failure of Leadership

August 18, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.“ – Benjamin Franklin On Wednesday, August 15, the LAUSD School Board met for the first time since Ref Rodriguez resigned in disgrace on July 23, 2018. Neither a discussion about scheduling a special election to fill the seat nor Board Member Scott Schmerelson’s resolution to temporarily […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, Jackie Goldberg, LAUSD, Richard Vladovic, Scott Schmerelson

The LAUSD Continues to Reward Failure

November 10, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

Shoot the hostage.” – Speed The California Charter School Association (CCSA) paid millions to purchase the LAUSD School Board, but their narrow majority is in danger. Not only is Ref Rodriguez, one of their hand-selected Board members, facing criminal charges related to his campaign, but the charter school chain he founded has accused him of having […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alliance, Alliance Alice M. Baxter College-Ready High, Baxter, Bennett Kayser, California Charter School Association, Charter Oversight, Dr. George McKenna, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, Mónica García, Nick Melvoin, Ref Rodriguez, Richard Vladovic, Scott Schmerelson

The Real Carpetbaggers in LAUSD’s District 2

February 24, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

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 […]

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

Education for Sale: Lack of Oversight

August 1, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the second section of my paper: Education for Sale: LAUSD Throws the Fight in Its  Competition with Charters. The previous section can be found at: The Broad Way Towards Bankruptcy   On the other side of the equation, the CCSA has proven that they are more than willing to compete with the LAUSD […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, Broad Foundation, California Charter School Association, CCSA, David Fehte, Diane Ravitch, Dr. George McKenna, El Camino Real Charter High School, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, Marshall Mayotte, Mónica García, PUC, Ref Rodriguez

The District’s Deaf Ears

December 29, 2015 by Carl J. Petersen

Shut up! Sit down!” -Ben Stern Under Bennett Kaser’s leadership, the LAUSD’s Budget, Facilities and Audit (BFA) Committee exposed details of John Deasy’s iPad program that helped lead to the former Superintendent’s resignation. Kayser was rewarded for his efforts with a campaign to unseat him that was heavily funded by the California Charters School Association […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, Budget, Facilities and Audit Committee, LAUSD, Office of General Counsel, Ref Rodriguez

LA Progressive: Ref Rodriguez—What the PUC Is Going on Here?

May 6, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

CCSA's Ref Rodriguez

By Robert D Skeels “The L.A. County district attorney’s office indicated Monday that it expected another, separate probe to be conducted by L.A. Unified’s inspector general.” — LA Times Ref Rodriguez: What the PUC Is Going on Here? In the LA Progressive piece What the PUC Is Going on Here? Hans Johnson and Hector Huezo of […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: ableism, Bennett Kayser, Board of education, California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, discrimination, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez, School Board, Students with Disabilities

LAUSD District 5: Money, education and the school board race! On KPFK’s Politics or Pedagogy? with John Cromshow

April 27, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

KPFK's Politics or Pedagogy? with John Cromshow

Featuring an analysis of education, policy and practice affecting our public schools. KPFK 90.7 FM KPFK’s Politics or Pedagogy? with John Cromshow Tuesday, April 28 7:00 PM Call in number: (818) 985-5735 TOPIC: Money, education and the school board race. Case in point, LAUSD District 5. It takes money to run a political campaign – […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, CCSA, LAUSD, neoliberalism, plutocrats, Politics or Pedagogy?, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez, School board elections

How is CCSA’s Ref Rodriguez hiding his billionaire and ideologue contributors?

April 20, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

CCSA's Ref Rodriguez

“In the long run, charter schools are being strategically used to pave the way for vouchers. The voucher advocates, who are very powerful and funded by right-wing foundations and families, recognize that the word voucher has been successfully discredited by enlightened Americans who believe in the public sector. So they’ve resorted to two strategies. First, […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: ableism, Bennett Kayser, Board of education, California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, discrimination, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez, School Board, Students with Disabilities

PROFITS! Why Ref Rodriguez and his CCSA covet the LAUSD Board Seat

April 3, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

PROFITS! Why Ref Rodriguez and his CCSA covet the LAUSD Board Seat

“The education industry represents, in our opinion, the final frontier of a number of sectors once under public control… represents the largest market opportunity… the K-12 market is the Big Enchilada.” — Montgomery Securities prospectus quoted in Jonathan Kozol’s The Big Enchilada Most of the time the charter school industry’s corporate leadership is able to […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, School Boards Tagged With: ableism, Bennett Kayser, Board of education, California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, discrimination, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez, School Board, Students with Disabilities

Open letter to Andrew Thomas regarding the LAUSD District 5 runoff

March 18, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Cheryl A. Guerrero for KPCC

 Dr. Andrew Thomas: Congratulations on your respectable election finish, and on noting on your website that out-of-town billionaires are financing the campaign of charter industry profiteer Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez against an incumbent endorsed by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). Your analysis ignores the fact that most UTLA teachers are also public school parents, live […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Andrew Thomas, Bennett Kayser, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, neoliberalism, plutocrats, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez

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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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