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Education for Sale: The Broad Way Towards Bankruptcy

August 1, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the first section of my paper: Education for Sale: LAUSD Throws the Fight in Its  Competition with Charters.   Despite the fact that the Los Angeles Times receives funding for their education coverage from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, their reporters were still able to publish a leaked copy of the foundation’s […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Broad Foundation, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Great Public Schools Now, LAUSD, Scott Schmerelson, Special Education

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

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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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