Where am I going to leave her today? I have to call in sick.“ – Parent of Student enrolled in a closed charter school Imagine if the LAUSD decided that one of their schools was draining resources from the District and decided to shut it down just days into the start of the school year. […]
Whack-A-Mole: The Los Angeles Approach to Charter School Oversight
Our oversight is “proactive and responsive” – José Cole-Gutiérrez, LAUSD Charter School Division Last June, I informed the LAUSD School Board that a charter school under their jurisdiction was violating the privacy of their students by publishing “Parent Volunteer Hours” reports on their website that included student names. The charter’s Chief Development Officer defended the […]
Education for Sale: Lack of Oversight
This is the second section of my paper: Education for Sale: LAUSD Throws the Fight in Its Competition with Charters. The previous section can be found at: The Broad Way Towards Bankruptcy On the other side of the equation, the CCSA has proven that they are more than willing to compete with the LAUSD […]
Ref Rodriguez doesn’t get to claim he’s never heard of California Charter Schools Association
By Robert D Skeels “There’s never a short supply of People of Color willing to tokenize themselves, and prosper, at the expense of marginalized millions.” — Professor Khaled A. Beydoun, Critical Race Theorist The Deasy (LA) School Report blog posted an entry in which Ref Rodriguez tries to distance himself from California Charter Schools Association’s widely […]