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Why Was El Camino’s Charter Renewed?

October 13, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Since we are on a timeline and it seems that the other issues that would prevent a renewal just don’t exist here, that everything else is very, positive…we are on a timeline and I think that we should vote the renewal up or down.” – Steve Zimmer, LAUSD Board President It is yet to be […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: David Fehte, Dr. George McKenna, ECRCHS, El Camino Real Charter High School, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD School Board, Mónica García, Monica Ratliff, Ref Rodriguez, Steve Zimmer

Who Does The LAUSD Board Serve?

September 14, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Charter families have lined up at dawn in biting cold winds holding babies. They’ve sweated it out for hours standing around ice chests or taking turns under canopies. They’ve waited hours—sometimes nearly a full a day—to get into an LA Unified school board meeting. Then, they wait hours more just to be heard.” –LA School […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Community Engagement, LAUSD School Board, Mónica García, parent engagement, School Board Meetings, Steve Zimmer

Mónica García on El Camino: Ignorance or Insincerity?

August 27, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Oversight: “the job of checking that a process or system is working well” –Macmillan Dictionary Before the LAUSD School Board began debate on the Issuance of Notice of Violations for El Camino Real Charter High School (ECRCHS) “requesting the charter school remedy violations by September 23, 2016”, the public had an opportunity to speak. Other […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: David Fehte, Dr. George McKenna, El Camino Real Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD School Board, Marshall Mayotte, Mónica García, Notice of Violations, Scott Schmerelson, Steve Zimmer

Education for Sale: LAUSD and Proposition 39

August 1, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the final section of my paper: Education for Sale: LAUSD Throws the Fight in Its  Competition with Charters. The previous section can be found at: Lack of Oversight   The CCSA has also shown a willingness to use the courts to gain the upperhand in its competition with public schools. It has been […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Bushnell Way Elementary School, California Charter School Association, CCSA, Celerity, co-location, Dr. George McKenna, LAUSD, Oakland Unified School District, Proposition 39, Ref Rodriguez, Steve Zimmer

An Attempt At Engagement Falls Flat

October 25, 2015 by Carl J. Petersen

“The best way to predict the future is to create it” Steve Zimmer and George McKenna made clear where their loyalties lie when they joined Monica Garcia and Ref Rodriguez to block public access to the finalists in the search for a new Superintendent. At the October 13th Board meeting, Monica Ratliff proposed a resolution […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Uncategorized, vet the Supe Tagged With: Board of education, LAUSD Superintendent, Parental Engagement, Steve Zimmer

Protected: Live in LAUSD? Sign the SPARCs Petition In Support of the Lorena Resolution

August 27, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: Lorena Elementary, Los Angeles Unified School District, Steve Zimmer, Venice High School

Et tu, 5-2? (LAUSD School Board Meeting, August 20, 2013)

August 26, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

Special to K12NN from Karen Wolfe. Karen is an LAUSD parent leader and activist in support of public schools. While corporate education reformers take every opportunity during this week’s anniversary of the March on Washington to co-opt civil rights rhetoric, I was fortunate to bear witness as Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte, the feisty, African American septuagenarian […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law Tagged With: California, Karen Wolfe, Los Angeles Unified School District, Parent trigger, Steve Zimmer

Parents, Teachers, and Even LAUSD School Board Members Speak Out Against Parent Trigger

July 12, 2013 by K12NN Site Admin

Want to know what real-live parents think of “parent trigger”? Watch these videos. These selected speeches were excerpted from the June 18, 2013 Los Angeles Unified School District Board meeting and were made in response to board member Steve Zimmer’s resolution,  “Comprehensive Information for Parent-Initiated Transformation.” Here’s what some parents had to say: Here’s what […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, Los Angeles Unified School District, Parent trigger, Steve Zimmer

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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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