Guest post by Los Angeles resident and edublogger Understanding Equity. Dear Friends and Neighbors: Next week, you will have the opportunity to vote for the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. This is the first time I have made an appeal of this nature. As a retired teacher working with many other concerned […]
Click here for reuse options!Don’t let the wealthy buy this election! — Associated Administrators of Los Angeles (AALA) From the November 3, 2014 issue of Update Tom Torlakson, California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction and AALA-supported candidate, needs your help to once again thwart the moneyed elite who unsuccessfully tried to defeat Monica Ratliff, Steve Zimmer, Bennett Kayser and Dr. […]
Click here for reuse options!Joining Forces for Education was formed in response to Ben Austin’s public school bulldozer outfit, the Walton Family Foundation funded Parent Revolution. Ellen Lubic occasionally contributes to Professor Ravitch’s site. The Real Marshall Tuck, and Why He Insures My Vote for Tom Torlakson for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Now that the billionaires such […]
Click here for reuse options!“…raises significant concerns that [Marshall Tuck run] PLAS continues to disregard state law, regulation, and LAUSD policy and is failing to implement transparent and uniform procedures to ensure parent and student rights are protected.” — MALDEF / Public Counsel I’ve followed Tuck’s career since he graduated from Broad’s Urban Residency. I think there’s a chance […]
Click here for reuse options!By Cheryl Ortega, Director of Bilingual Education, UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). Cheryl Ortega taught for 38 years in kindergarten and primary education bilingual programs in LAUSD. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of UTLA as Director of Bilingual Education. She worked with Marshall Tuck and PLAS for a year at the request of parents […]
Click here for reuse options!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 […]
Click here for reuse options!By Cheryl Ortega, Director of Bilingual Education, UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). Cheryl Ortega taught for 38 years in kindergarten and primary education bilingual programs in LAUSD. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of UTLA as Director of Bilingual Education. I became acquainted with Mr. Tuck in 2008, the first year of the […]
Click here for reuse options!“The lowest-performing, based on test scores, is the large Green Dot chain.” — Los Angeles Times Marshall Tuck’s campaign literature claims “Marshall has run two of California’s most innovative school systems, improving… student achievement levels in tough neighborhoods” However, achievement data from the schools he ran at both Green Dot Charter Corporation and Partnership for […]
Click here for reuse options!“We have our cake, and are eating it too.” — Eli Broad Dan Chang’s SuperPAC, formed to support erstwhile LAUSD candidate Alex “ALEC” Johnson, is now funding a new astroturf group to get his fellow Broad Urban Residency alum, Marshall Tuck, elected to the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction seat. Using the wonderful astroturf […]
Click here for reuse options!Former PLAS CEO Marshall Tuck’s school-to-prison-pipeline legacy for children of color lives on in the policies he established at Markham Middle School. However, the community is tired and fighting back! African-American and Latino parents/students to unite with Community groups and United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) to speak out against discriminatory practices against African-American students, parents, […]
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