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Candidate Red Flags: Democracy Lies In Your Vote in the Special Election, March 5th, 2019

March 4, 2019 by Dr. Rocio Rivas

Jackie Goldberg is the only clear choice to stop the plan between Eli Broad and the public officials he has purchased from making sure LAUSD fails and is broken apart.

Filed Under: Call to Action, Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Allison Bajracharya, Eli Broad, Heather Repenning, Jackie Goldberg, Jose Huizar, LAUSD, Ref Rodriguez, School board elections

Under Marshall Tuck Jordan HS went five years with under 20% of students scoring proficient for CSU

October 20, 2018 by Robert D Skeels

Under business banker Marshall Tuck Jordan High School Partnership Academy for the Arts went five years without achieving even twenty percent of students scoring proficient on either the mathematics or the English portion of the California State University (CSU) entrance exams. Five years! Jordan High School Partnership Academy for the Arts CSU results: the years […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, School Districts Tagged With: California State Superintendent of Instruction, CSU, Eli Broad, Marshall Tuck, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurmond

Broad’s Latest Attack on Democracy

October 25, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

We serve the people of Greater Los Angeles because we believe there is a better path for the children of our great district. Unfortunately, the serious allegations against Dr. Ref Rodriguez distract from that critical mission.” – Monica Garcia, Nick Melvoin and Kelly Gonez While the LAUSD School Board was evaluating the performance of the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Election Fraud, Eli Broad, Kelly Gonez, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Mónica García, Nick Melvoin, Ref Rodriguez

What About the Los Angeles Times’ Conflict of Interest?

October 18, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

CCSA's Ref Rodriguez

The following Letter to the Editor was sent yesterday in response to the Los Angeles Times’ article “L.A. school board member Ref Rodriguez faces conflict-of-interest complaint over $285,000 in payments”. Unsurprisingly, it was not published. As the accusations against LAUSD Board member Ref Rodriguez mount, it is important to note that the charges are not […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Eli Broad, LAUSD, Los Angeles News Media, Los Angeles Times, Ref Rodriguez

The LAUSD Board Strikes Out

December 7, 2015 by Carl J. Petersen

Fix our Public Schools, don't Privatize!

Resolved, That the LAUSD Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles opposes the Broad Foundation plan and all initiatives that present a strategy designed to serve some students and not all students -Scott Schmerelson When a leaked copy of Eli Broad’s Great Public Schools Now Initiative was published by the Los Angeles Times, […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: charter schools, Eli Broad, Great Public Schools Now, LAUSD, Scott Schmerelson

Tax Spending Without Representation

November 1, 2015 by Carl J. Petersen

“Charter schools allow parents, teachers and the community to transform our public school system.” -California Charter School Association As Eli Broad prepares to implement his plan “to reach 50 percent charter market share” within the LAUSD, now is the time for Angelenos to begin asking what this privately controlled system would look like. While Broad […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, Profiteering, Uncategorized Tagged With: Charter School Governance, Eli Broad, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD Charter School Division

$1 Billion

October 17, 2015 by Carl J. Petersen

Rafe Esquith “wants to shut down teacher jail. Mostly he wanted to teach. That’s not going to happen anymore not at Hobart, not by L.A.Unified and he wants to never let this happen to any teacher again.” -Mark Geragos When it comes to Rafe Esquith, the LAUSD is in a no-win situation. Eventually, the public […]

Filed Under: LAUSD Tagged With: Bully Culture, David Binkle, Disruptive Parent Letter, Eli Broad, Mark Geragos, Rafe Esquith, Teacher Jail

Why the Los Angeles Times Missed the Biggest Education News this Week

September 24, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

By Karen Wolfe. She is an LAUSD parent activist and supporter of public schools with children who currently attend district schools. According to the Los Angeles Times, there was not much to report: “Protestors Add a Little Rain to Otherwise Sunny Broad Museum Opening Day.” Not “Education Activists Rain on Eli Broad’s Parade” or even […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Charter Schools, Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, Profiteering, School Districts, Students, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: Eli Broad

Protest against Eli Broad’s charter putsch by Voices Against Privatizing Public Education

August 11, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Eli Broad, a staunch opponent of academic freedom, intellectuals, and the public commons, is one of the leading reactionary billionaires funding the neoliberal slash and burn campaign against public education.

The activists comprising Voices Against Privatizing Public Education, whose efforts were recently highlighted on Professor Diane Ravitch’s blog, are holding a rally/protest in front of the Broad Foundation’s headquarters. This is in response to Broad and his fellow reactionaries’ announcement of plans to privatize more than half the Los Angeles Unified School District within the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: ALEC, Broad Foundation, charter schools, Eli Broad, Emerson Collective, neoliberalism, Privatization, protest, rdsathene, Reed Hastings, resistance, Walton Family Foundation

A District 5 LAUSD debate forum not ruled by Eli Broad’s United Way Greater Los Angeles PR firm

February 3, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

A District 5 LAUSD debate forum not ruled by Eli Broad's United Way Greater Los Angeles PR firm

“To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.”—Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed This event is being hosted by an elected Neighborhood Council, not by the billionaire funded Non-profit Industrial Complex (NPIC) like Eli Broad’s United Way Greater Los Angeles PR […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Board of education, BOE, Education Politics, Eli Broad, LAUSD, rdsathene, School Board, United Way, UWGLA

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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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