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Alliance corporate charters, teacher organizing, and moral imperatives

March 19, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Alliance corporate charters, teacher organizing, and moral imperatives

First published on solidaridad on March 19, 2015 “The shady nature of Alliance’s real estate dealings, their dismal SAT scores and CSU remediation rates, and their refusal to educate every child are all compelling… [a]llowing these private entities to cherry pick students and avoid educating the most vulnerable and needy students is immoral. Taking a […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Educators, Los Angeles Tagged With: Alliance, alliance college ready public [sic] schools, Judy Burton, labor, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance to privatization, Richard Riorden, UTLA

How do Karin Klein and Los Angeles Times define “high-performing”?

March 14, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

How do Karin Klein and Los Angeles Times define "high-performing"?

Sent to the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 2015 Re: Teachers at Alliance charter group push to form union http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-alliance-charter-story.html The author here calls the Alliance’s corporate chain a “high-performing charter group”. I’m curious if that inaccurate designation came directly from either Alliance’s or the California Charter Schools Association’s marketing departments? Despite claiming that […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles Tagged With: Alliance, corporate education agenda, Judy Burton, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, Richard Riorden

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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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