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The LAUSD’s Hostility Towards Special Education

November 30, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

On November 16, 2016, the Office of the Independent Monitor held its semi-annual public hearings about the services provided by the LAUSD to students with special education needs. The following is a copy of my testimony before Dr. Rostetter: When I saw your reaction to Adam’s speech, it gave me something that I haven’t had […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Special ed Tagged With: Chanda Smith, Dr. Rostetter, Inclusion, John Deasy, LAUSD, Mainstreaming, Modified Consent Decree, Mónica García, Office of the Independent Monitor, Sharyn Howell, Special Education

What is the Opposite of Transparent?

September 18, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

The records you have requested are exempt from disclosure pursuant to California Government Code §6254(f) as they are the subject of an on-going investigation.” –LAUSD Office of the General Counsel It has been almost two years since David Binkle was removed from his position as LAUSD’s Food Services Director.  A draft audit by the Inspector […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California PRA, California Public Records Act, David Binkle, John Deasy, LAUSD, LAUSD Food Services Director, LAUSD Inspector General, Michelle King

Democracy’s Necessary For the LAUSD Superintendent Search

October 8, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Vet the Supe, along with other grassroots organizations, has called for the search process for new Superintendent of LAUSD to be an open and transparent one. While grasstops groups like the United Way, Urban League, and other non-profits aligned with Eli Broad demand access to a search committee, real on-the-ground teachers union members, parents, and […]

Filed Under: Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts, vet the Supe Tagged With: John Deasy, Superintendent John Deasy

LAUSD: Haste Makes Ed Tech Waste

December 2, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Cynthia Liu, CEO/Founder of K12NN. [BREAKING: The FBI carted away 20 boxes of documents relating to the iPad purchase from LAUSD offices late Monday, December 1, 2014.] Two education technology disasters mark the former LAUSD Superintendent’s brief tenure: the iPad debacle, born from cozy relationships with vendors and dependent upon broadband infrastructure that, in […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Ed Tech, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: Broad Superintendent Academy, John Deasy, Superintendent John Deasy

Reply to Sandy Banks’ “Deasy’s Exit Leaves Unfinished Work At LAUSD”

October 24, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Barbara Landis is a native southern Californian (3rd generation — her grandparents came to LA before 1900), and the parent of three children who attended elementary, middle and high school in LAUSD. She also teaches in an independent K-12 school in the Valley. Sandy Banks is right. There’s plenty of work, unfinished and never begun at […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: Broad Superintendent Academy, John Deasy, LAUSD Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District

Marshall Tuck endorsed discredited and disgraced John Deasy

October 18, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

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Plagued by multiple scandals, missteps, mismanagement, and allegations of possible malfeasance, discredited and disgraced John Deasy resigned in ignominy from the post of Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Superintendent on October 16, 2014. Marshall Tuck, who failed miserably at both Green Dot Corporate Charters and the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, was among Deasy’s […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles Tagged With: Broad Superintendent Academy, Broad Urban Residency, California, Eli Broad, John Deasy, LAUSD, Marshall Tuck, rdsathene, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson

The Deasy Debacle: Six New Rules for a New Superintendent

October 18, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Roberta Eidman, MPH. She is a community member and resident of Los Angeles interested in a healthy public commons and excellent public schools for ALL children. The Deasy era was never really about Public Education. It was never really about the kids, or their parents, or the future of Los Angeles as a cultural […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Ed Tech, Educators, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: iPad, John Deasy, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, LAUSD Superintendent, MiSiS

Why Didn’t LAUSD Perform A Tech Review Before iPad/MiSiS Purchase?

September 26, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

The LAUSD MiSiS cRiSiS is Deasy's Disaster.

Bad ed tech deals continue to plague LAUSD — currently starting its second month of meltdown, the MiSiS student tracking and class scheduling software mandated by a court-ordered consent decree is a ticking time bomb for high school seniors who need transcripts in order to apply to college and finish classes in order to graduate […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Fresno Unified School District, iPads, John Deasy, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District

iPad Watchdog Stuart Magruder’s Re-Appointment: Which Way Will LAUSD Go?

June 10, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

The question for many school districts around the country this spring was this: how are they supposed to give computer-based, end-of-year Common Core State Standards (CCSS) tests? For over a year in Los Angeles Unified, parents, students, teachers, and community members have wrestled with the details of Superintendent John Deasy’s 1:1 iPad program and its […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Budgets, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Deasy, John Deasy, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Superintendent John Deasy

United Way's Corporate NPIC Astroturf was thick in front of LAUSD last Tuesday

April 11, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

“By what logic does United Way engage in an activity that is shunned by all the other charities?” — Professor Ralph E. Shaffer Amid all the misleading and mendacious reports in the corporate media about Tuesday’s desk charade, there is one revealing Los Angeles Times photo of so-called “students” setting up desks on Beaudry Boulevard […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Astroturf, Corporate Education Reform, John Deasy, LAUSD, neoliberalism, NGO, Nonprofit Industrial Complex, NPIC, Privatization, 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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