Instituto de Padres / Parent Institute Saturday, July 18, 2015 12:00 to 4:00PM 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 8th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90010 [The Education Trust-West] and many of the cited sources in the [20]14-15 ETW/LAUSD Case Study are noted School [R]eformers aligned with Secretary Duncan, the Broad/Gates/Waltons — and the then superintendent John Deasy — […]
United Way Greater Los Angeles creates ad campaign for their biased LAUSD candidate forums
“By what logic does United Way engage in an activity that is shunned by all the other charities?” — Professor Ralph E. Shaffer Some of United Way Greater Los Angeles and United Way Worldwide’s other “education” related activities: Statement on Gates and Broad Foundation funded United Way Greater Los Angeles running LAUSD forums K12NN: United […]
Want the best turnout of candidates? Hold community, rather than corporate, LAUSD debate forums!
First published on solidaridad on January 31, 2015 “I have also observed and experienced how these organizations, in order to protect their non-profit status and marketability to liberal foundations, actively self-police against members’ deviation from their essentially reformist agendas, while continuing to appropriate the language and imagery of historical revolutionaries.”—Professor Dylan Rodríguez Left to right: […]
May 4 Candidate Forum: LAUSD School Board District 1 Special Election
I was asked to cover the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) School Board District 1 Special Election Candidate forum held on Saturday, May 4, 2014. The event took place at the University of Southern California (USC), and it was hosted by the Walton Family Foundation’s key neoliberal privatization organization—Parent Revolution. Parent Revolution, henceforth pRev—a […]
United Way's Corporate NPIC Astroturf was thick in front of LAUSD last Tuesday
“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 […]