• Athletics
  • Big Ed
  • Ed Tech
  • Educators
  • Elections
  • Federal Policy
  • Parents
  • Students
  • The Testing Industry

K-12 News Network's The Wire

K-12 News Network: People-Powered Public Education News

  • Budgets
  • Charter Schools
  • Federal Policy
  • School Districts
  • State Education Law
  • School Boards
You are here: Home / Archives for Celerity

Rules? Where we’re going we don’t need rules.

September 23, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

CCSA's Ref Rodriguez

This is much ado about nothing” – Attorney Mark Werksman According to the Felony Complaint against Refugio (Ref) Rodriguez, he and his cousin allegedly conspired in a scheme that hid the source of almost $25,000 in campaign donations from the public. While a lawyer involved in the case maintains that this is “a small amount […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: CCSA, Celerity, El Camino Real Charter High School, Election Fraud, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, LAUSD School Board, Ref Rodriguez

Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil: The Failures of LAUSD’S Charter School Division

September 11, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

State law provides that an authorizer is not liable for debts, obligations [or] liabilities so long as [they] provide appropriate oversight. We believe we are providing appropriate oversight.” [emphasis mine] – José Cole-Gutiérrez As the District slides towards bankruptcy due to declining enrollment, the LAUSD School Board is set to act on another round of […]

Filed Under: Call to Action, Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Celerity, CSD, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, ICEF, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD School Board, Mónica García

Standing Up For Our Public Schools

June 10, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

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 […]

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

Fighting Off a Prop-39 Parasite

March 11, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

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 […]

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

Employees of Charter Group Raided By FBI Among Funders of Mónica García’s Campaign

January 26, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

Federal agents raided the offices of a network of Los Angeles charter schools Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of fraud and fiscal mismanagement.” – Los Angeles Times, 1/25/17 Exempting charters “from many of the regulations that govern traditional schools” was supposed to be a way to remove barriers to innovation. Unfortunately, […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Celerity, Celerity Educational Group, Diana Macias, Grace Canada, Mónica García, Montalvo Saucedo, Vielka McFarlane

The Absurdity of Charter School Oversight in L.A.

October 23, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

This is about the fact that they want to kill our charters and nothing more.” -Magnolia CEO Caprice Young The sky is falling.” -Chicken Little As usual, the LAUSD Board spent a significant portion of their time at Tuesday’s meeting ignoring the needs of students enrolled in District schools so they could focus on charter […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California Charter School Association, Caprice Young, CCSA, Celerity, ECRCHS, El Camino Real Charter High School, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, Magnolia, Ref Rodriguez, Scott Schmerelson

Following Monica’s Money

October 17, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Dime con quien andas y te dire quien eres” Tell me with whom you walk, and I’ll tell you who you are. – Mexican Proverb as quoted by Antonio Villaraigosa As headlined in the L.A. School Report, “L.A. Unified school board member Monica Garcia dominates fundraising in re-election bid”. She has raised “nearly 150 times […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Uncategorized Tagged With: Celerity, Eugene D. Straub, Granada Hills Chart, Gustavo Valdivisa, Lee Andrews Group, Lynda Resnick, Michael Keeley, MLJ Property Management, Mónica García, Pacific Services, Pacifica Services, Richard Alatorre, Vielka McFarlane

Education for Sale: LAUSD and Proposition 39

August 1, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the final section of my paper: Education for Sale: LAUSD Throws the Fight in Its  Competition with Charters. The previous section can be found at: Lack of Oversight   The CCSA has also shown a willingness to use the courts to gain the upperhand in its competition with public schools. It has been […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Bushnell Way Elementary School, California Charter School Association, CCSA, Celerity, co-location, Dr. George McKenna, LAUSD, Oakland Unified School District, Proposition 39, Ref Rodriguez, Steve Zimmer

Sign up for our newsletter

* indicates required
Email Format

Buy a hybrid Facebook+ website today!

K12NN

  • @MikePrysner December 9, 2019

    Mike Prysner Howard Stern Net Worth: ~$600,000,000 Clinton Family Net Worth: ~$240,000,000 twitter.com/ibrahimpols/st…

  • @K12NN December 7, 2019

    K-12 News Network What price for @YaleSOM to credibility-wash Eli Broad's neoliberal education reform factory? $100 Million to produc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  • @K12NN December 3, 2019

    K-12 News Network #savefairfax folks join us at LAUSD mtng TODAY 10 am/4 pm for public comment. Recap: tinyurl.com/umllhep Nick,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  • @K12NN October 31, 2019

    K-12 News Network The LA Times editorial board finds it redundant, pointless, & inaccurate to create an LAUSD Yelp rating system. The… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  • @MSGunderson October 25, 2019

    Michelle Gunderson @CrainsChicago @GregHinz I don’t even know what to think about this headline. Karen Lewis is my mentor and I grieve… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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 […]

More Posts from this Category

K12NN on Blog Talk Radio

Online Politics Progressive Radio at Blog Talk Radio with MOMocrats on BlogTalkRadio

Categories

December 2019
S M T W T F S
« Nov    
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Copyright © 2019 · The Wire Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in