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Don’t let Wendy Carrillo implement the Betsy DeVos agenda!

December 2, 2017 by Robert D Skeels

Carrillo campaign mailer paid for by the CCSA

“[C]harter schools with privately appointed boards do not represent the public but make decisions about how public funds are spent…” — NAACP Wendy Carrillo is an enemy of public education. Carrillo is a contributing “network member” of the right-wing Education Post, an anti-public education and pro-privatization outfit funded by the Walton Family Foundation and other […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles Tagged With: betsy devos, California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, charter school corruption, Los Angeles, neoliberalism, politics, Privatization, Walton Family Foundation

Drinking A Charter School’s Kool-Aid

June 27, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

As key partners of our school community, I wanted you to be aware of a pending new story and offer an explanation of the situation.  A reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News has approached El Camino Real Charter High School (ECRCHS) on multiple occasions. His focus: a request made by LAUSD last October to […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, charter schools, David Fehte, El Camino Real Charter High School, LAUSD Charter School Division

Trading Student Safety for Independence?

March 24, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

At the Los Angeles Unified School District, our goals are…School safety” -LAUSD As a father of two daughters who require special education services, I know from personal experience that the LAUSD has a less than stellar track record of working with parents to meet the needs of our students. A parent should not have to […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, LASUD, The Accelerated Schools

Edison Schools: Proof That Grifters Can Be Defeated, Part II

January 13, 2016 by K12NN Site Admin

Charter School Fraud Robs ALL our students!

By Caroline Grannan, parent activist Part II The fun of getting interviewed by a hostile though icily courteous New York Times reporter. This is a follow-up to my earlier post marking the 15th anniversary of the Edison Schools controversy in San Francisco, which launched me as a mommy volunteer critic of so-called education “reform” until […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, San Francisco, School Districts Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, Edison Schools, For-profit schools

Edison Schools: Proof That Grifters Can Be Defeated, Part I

January 13, 2016 by K12NN Site Admin

Charter School Fraud Robs ALL our students!

By Caroline Grannan, parent activist Part I It’s been 15 years this month since the Edison Schools sh*tstorm hit San Francisco and I got deeply involved as a mommy volunteer advocate, and stayed that way for a long time. Edison Schools Inc. was a for-profit company that sold itself to school districts as a manager […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, San Francisco, School Districts Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, Edison Schools, For-profit schools

LAUSD School Board Member-Elect Ref Rodriguez’s Financial Disclosures (And Possible Conflicts of Interest)

June 10, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

The voters of Los Angeles Unified School District 5 have made a big mistake in electing Ref Rodriguez to the school board this past May. Questions remain about his financial ties to various organizations he holds leadership positions in that would represent a conflict of interest if, as a LAUSD school board member, he were […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, featured, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, Los Angeles Unified School District

Was Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez self-dealing and running front groups?

June 4, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Was Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez self-dealing and running front groups?

By Robert D Skeels Currently under investigation by a number of authorities, including the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Office of Inspector General and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Charter industry mogul Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez’s innumerable front groups are hard to keep track of. The following articles should help contextualize the situation, […]

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

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

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

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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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