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A charter school story

April 16, 2019 by Robert D Skeels

Passage from (Knapp v. Palisades Charter High School (2007) 146 Cal.App.4th 708 [53 Cal.Rptr.3d 182].)

Appeared originally as my Twitter thread Researching for a case and came across a personal injury settlement between a charter school corporation in the Central Valley and multiple student plaintiffs for some $6-million+. The amount is on the low side considering the horrific injuries some of the students suffered. It was the typical charter school money-making […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: charter schools, Lawsuits, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene

Tony Thurmond Feels The Heat

November 4, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

I believe that it’s time to make our public education system in California among the greatest in the nation, and I have a plan to take us there.” – Tony Thurmond Like a lot of other politicians who have been labeled “anti-charter school,” Tony Thurmond has not called for the end of these publicly funded […]

Filed Under: Elections Tagged With: California Charter School Association, CCSA, Marshall Tuck, Privatization, Public Education, Tony Thurmond

Don’t let Wendy Carrillo implement the Betsy DeVos agenda!

December 2, 2017 by Robert D Skeels

Carrillo campaign mailer paid for by the CCSA

“[C]harter schools with privately appointed boards do not represent the public but make decisions about how public funds are spent…” — NAACP Wendy Carrillo is an enemy of public education. Carrillo is a contributing “network member” of the right-wing Education Post, an anti-public education and pro-privatization outfit funded by the Walton Family Foundation and other […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles Tagged With: betsy devos, California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, charter school corruption, Los Angeles, neoliberalism, politics, Privatization, Walton Family Foundation

Thank you John Oliver for exposing how charter schools steal from children

August 26, 2016 by Robert D Skeels

Say a Big Thank You to John Oliver!

“Fraud is a feature of deregulation, not a bug. When no one is looking, some people steal. Not everyone steals, but many do. That is why Ohio, Florida, Michigan, and California are scamming taxpayers.” — Professor Diane Ravitch The vile poverty pimps and privatization pushers of the lucrative charter school industry were infuriated when John […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: charter schools, Education, John Oliver, neoliberalism, NPE, Privatization, rdsathene, The Network for Public Education

California charter school industry bill attempts to eliminate only source of public oversight

April 1, 2016 by Robert D Skeels

Save Public Schools! Adult Education Students protest school privatizer Monica Garcia in Koreatown after she voted to shut down all adult schools and use the money for privately managed charters.

“…charter schools have used their public characteristics to qualify for public funding under state constitutional law, while highlighting their private characteristics to exempt themselves from other laws that apply to public schools.”—Professors Preston C. Green and Joseph Oluwole School privatization promoting Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC) EdSource has long been a source of both political cover, […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: Accountability, California, CCSA, charter schools, LAUSD, LAUSD Office of the General Counsel, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization

California’s charter school law repeal movement update

January 13, 2016 by

Join Voices Against Privatizing Public Education's efforts to repeal the California charter school law

“charter schools comprise a divisive and segregated sector” — Frankenberg, E., Siegel-Hawley, G., Wang, J. (2011) Voices Against Privatizing Public Education’s (VAPPE) grassroots campaign to repeal the 1992 charter school laws imposed on California by corporate reactionaries Donald Fisher and Reed Hastings has been moving forward. In addition to their online petition, they’ve established a […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: California, CCSA, charter schools, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, Voices Against Privatizing Public Education

Repeal California Charter Schools movement grows and gains a celebrity-activist endorsement

October 7, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Voices Against Privatizing Public Education protesting billionaire school privatizer Mark Zuckerberg

“Choice rhetoric contemplates the sphere for reformed education as a “market.” The commodification of education in this way has prompted no shortage of critique identifying the ways in which the conditions for a properly functioning education market are difficult—if not impossible—to cultivate. Problems with an education market, however, go beyond the mere absence of ideal […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: California, charter schools, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, Voices Against Privatizing Public Education

Brief statement on Washington State Supreme Court finding charter schools unconstitutional

September 6, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Fix our Public Schools, don't Privatize!

“Though boosted through a language of choice and effectiveness, the charters provide neither. Public funds pay for a system that lacks oversight, transparency, and funnels millions of dollars to privateers, who pocket salaries upwards of $1 million.” — Dr. Megan French-Marcelin By now everyone has heard the wonderful news that the Washington State Supreme Court […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: charter schools, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance to privatization

Stoner Elementary community to hold protest against charter school co-location that has taken resources from home school

August 15, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Press release – Stoner Elementary community to hold protest against charter school co-location that has taken resources from home school. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Monday, August 17, 2015, the first day of school, from 7:30-8:30AM, the Stoner Elementary School Community and local Del Rey neighborhood will be holding a protest against the co-location of ICEF […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Uncategorized Tagged With: charter schools, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, Proposition 39, rdsathene

Protest against Eli Broad’s charter putsch by Voices Against Privatizing Public Education

August 11, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Eli Broad, a staunch opponent of academic freedom, intellectuals, and the public commons, is one of the leading reactionary billionaires funding the neoliberal slash and burn campaign against public education.

The activists comprising Voices Against Privatizing Public Education, whose efforts were recently highlighted on Professor Diane Ravitch’s blog, are holding a rally/protest in front of the Broad Foundation’s headquarters. This is in response to Broad and his fellow reactionaries’ announcement of plans to privatize more than half the Los Angeles Unified School District within the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: ALEC, Broad Foundation, charter schools, Eli Broad, Emerson Collective, neoliberalism, Privatization, protest, rdsathene, Reed Hastings, resistance, Walton Family Foundation

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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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