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Schools Matter: Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue

January 21, 2020 by Robert D Skeels

First published on Schools Matter on January 21, 2020 “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 […]

Filed Under: School Vouchers Tagged With: Center for Education Reform, CER, charter schools, Jeanne Allen, Privatization, rdsathene, Reactionaries, religion in schools, religious indoctrination, SCOTUS, vouchers

The Country’s Largest Charter School Expands into a Construction Zone

July 22, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Was the LAUSD Board aware that Granada Hills Charter High School would raze its satellite campus just prior to its first year of expansion?

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: charter schools, GHCHS, GHCS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Granada Hills Charter School, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Scott Schmerelson

A charter school story

April 16, 2019 by Robert D Skeels

Passage from (Knapp v. Palisades Charter High School (2007) 146 Cal.App.4th 708 [53 Cal.Rptr.3d 182].)

Appeared originally as my Twitter thread Researching for a case and came across a personal injury settlement between a charter school corporation in the Central Valley and multiple student plaintiffs for some $6-million+. The amount is on the low side considering the horrific injuries some of the students suffered. It was the typical charter school money-making […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: charter schools, Lawsuits, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene

The Winners and Losers of the LAUSD Strike

January 27, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

In a School District currently defined by the fight between public education and privatization, both sides put everything on the line. Was it worth it?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Austin Beutner, charter schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Mónica García, Nick Melvoin, Scott Schmerelson, Special Education

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

Lowering Class Size: If Not Now, When?

January 1, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

If current and past members of the LAUSD School Board have called for lower class sizes, why are they battling their union on the issue?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: charter schools, class size, Great Recession, LAUSD, Mónica García, National Education Association, NEA, Nick Melvoin, Steve Zimmer, Strike, Tamar Galatzan, UTLA

Charter Schools Are Failing and Our Democracy Pays the Price

September 28, 2018 by Dr. Rocio Rivas

“The ideals of education, whether men [sic] are taught to teach or plow, to weave or to write, must not be allowed to sink into sordid utilitarianism. Education must keep broad ideals before it, and never forget that it is dealing with Souls and not with Dollars.” 1902, W.E.B. DuBois, educator and civil rights leader. Not […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, Parents, Profiteering, Research Tagged With: charter school super-networks, charter schools, democracy, neo-liberalism, parents, privatization of public education, Public Education, segregation, Students

Thank you John Oliver for exposing how charter schools steal from children

August 26, 2016 by Robert D Skeels

Say a Big Thank You to John Oliver!

“Fraud is a feature of deregulation, not a bug. When no one is looking, some people steal. Not everyone steals, but many do. That is why Ohio, Florida, Michigan, and California are scamming taxpayers.” — Professor Diane Ravitch The vile poverty pimps and privatization pushers of the lucrative charter school industry were infuriated when John […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: charter schools, Education, John Oliver, neoliberalism, NPE, Privatization, rdsathene, The Network for Public Education

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

Putting Lipstick on the Prop 39 Pig

June 24, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

On June 21, 2016, the LAUSD School Board debated a resolution co-sponsored by Ref Rodriguez and Monica Garcia that would establish an “impartial group of District and charter school leaders” to make recommendations on improving “the process around successful co-locations”. Under the Improving the Policies and Practices Impacting Co-Located Public Schools resolution, the Superintendent would […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, State Education Law Tagged With: California Charter School Association, charter schools, co-location, LAUSD, Proposition 39

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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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