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An LAUSD Star is Born

February 4, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Tyler Okeke is the student representative on the LAUSD School Board. At Tuesday’s meeting, he made sure the voice of his fellow students was heard.

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: California Charter School Association, Campaign finance, CCSA, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, Moratorium, Nick Melvoin, Tyler Okeke

Los Angeles Asks For a Charter School Pause

February 2, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The LAUSD School Board resists intense pressure from the charter school industry to ask the state for a moratorium on new charter schools.

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Board Meeting Accessibility to the Public, California Charter School Association, CCSA, Granada Hills Charter High School, Kids First, LAUSD, NAACP Charter School Moratorium, Nick Melvoin, North Valley Military Institute, Scott Schmerelson

A Charter School Pawn

January 13, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The charter industry hides behind children when it comes time to go through the renewal process for their publicly funded private schools.

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: CCSA, charter schools, LAUSD

Dismantling Our Public Schools

December 7, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

The District representatives were not helpful in suggesting remedies” – Cheryl Ortega Under what circumstances should the police be called on a five-year-old child? According to parents at Mayberry Elementary School in the Silver Lake/Echo Park area of Los Angeles, the principal has called the Los Angeles Police Department about students under her charge on […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California Charter School Association, CCSA, Jackie Goldberg, LAUSD Board District 5, Mayberry Elementary School, Ref Rodriguez, Scott Schmerelson, Special Election

Tony Thurmond Feels The Heat

November 4, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

I believe that it’s time to make our public education system in California among the greatest in the nation, and I have a plan to take us there.” – Tony Thurmond Like a lot of other politicians who have been labeled “anti-charter school,” Tony Thurmond has not called for the end of these publicly funded […]

Filed Under: Elections Tagged With: California Charter School Association, CCSA, Marshall Tuck, Privatization, Public Education, Tony Thurmond

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

Is This What Democracy Looks Like in the LAUSD?

August 4, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

This is a very surreptitious way of doing business whereby you’re trying to hide…something perhaps you don’t want us to know.“ – Roberto Fonseca, LAUSD Parent LAUSD Board members elected with the support of the charter industry held a majority for a little over a year before Ref Rodriguez was forced to resign after committing […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: California Charter School Association, CCSA, Kelly Gonez, Mónica García, Nick Melvoin, Ref Rodriguez, SENI 2.0, Student Equity Needs Index 2.0

The Charter Industry Proves Again That They Are Not Public Schools

April 27, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Money comes based upon some hypothetical projection of how many special needs kids you might have in the school…if they give you more than you need, you don’t have to give the money back.” – LAUSD Board Member Dr. George McKenna As the LAUSD School Board continues to ignore the fact that Granada Hills Charter […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California Charter School Association, CCSA, Charter School Accountability, Delaine Eastin, Jim Beall, SB-1362

Ankur Patel Will Defend Public Education in the California State Assembly

March 26, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

I commit to working to increase the amount of funding that goes to public education and specifically to students at their school site.” – Ankur Patel When choosing which politicians to back, the California Charter School Association (CCSA) seems to care more about how they will help them to avoid regulation than the candidates’ ethical […]

Filed Under: Elections, Los Angeles Tagged With: Ankur Patel, California Assembly District 45, California Charter School Association, CCSA

Charters: Public Schools or Private Businesses?

February 5, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act to do both of the following: (a) Ensure that charter school governance is transparent. (b) Ensure that monitoring and oversight of charter schools are conducted to protect the public interest.” -California AB 1478 As recipients of public funding, one would expect that organizations running […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: AB 1478, California Charter School Association, California Public Records Act, CCSA, LAUSD, The Brown Act

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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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