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The LAUSD’s 2019 Report Card

December 31, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

There were huge changes in the last year for the second largest school district in the country. A look back at some of the major events…

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Austin Beutner, California Charter School Association, CCSA, Chanda Smith, EE, iPads, Jackie Goldberg, John Deasy, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, MiSiS, Modified Consent Decree, Nick Melvoin, Ref Rodriguez, Special Education, State of Denial, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

Who “Taught” Your LAUSD Student Last Week?

January 19, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Teachers are professionals that are trained to handle the many needs of their students. What about the people taking over during the strike?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: AALA, LAUSD, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

Public Support For UTLA Demands Is A Rejection of Beutner Et Al’s Top Down, Discredited, and Out of Touch Profiteering

January 18, 2019 by cynthia

In Superintendent Austin Beutner’s Los Angeles Unified, it’s as if the 2018 elections never happened, or that Donald Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education had never turned a glaring klieg light on the avarice of “school choice” Democrats under Obama who suddenly found themselves aligned with voucher-loving, charter school-pushing megadonors to the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Austin Beutner, LAUSD, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

Where Do the LAUSD Board Members Stand?

January 9, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Elected to represent the students in the District’s public schools, the LAUSD School Board have been mostly silent as the strike date nears.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized, Unionism Tagged With: LAUSD School Board, Reclaim Our Schools LA, teachers strike

Can the LAUSD Ensure Student Safety During a Strike?

January 6, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The District is encouraging parents to send their students to school if the teachers’ union strikes. Will they be sending kids into mayhem?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized, Unionism Tagged With: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, safety, Special Education, teachers strike, UTLA

LAUSD Increases Salary Offer, Teachers Hold Out for Students

November 14, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Salary: 6% on-schedule raise, including 3% retroactive for 2017-18, plus 3% raise for 2018-19” – LAUSD The LAUSD has already signed contracts with their other major unions that “included raises totaling about 6%.” It was, therefore, unclear why the District’s initial offer to the teachers was to only raise their salaries by 2%. This seemed […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized, Unionism Tagged With: class size, LAUSD, March for Public Education, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

Second Largest School District Faces Teachers Strike

September 5, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

There is currently an effort to call for a strike that pits adults versus adults when students and their families will bear the brunt of a strike action.“ – LAUSD School Board Having gladly accepted the title of “a gadfly at the school board meetings”, I have a natural tendency to be suspicious of the […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: class size, libraries, magnet schools, Public Education, school nurses, Special Education, teachers strike, Testing

90% of Chicago Teachers Vote to Strike If Contract Negotiations Break Down

June 18, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Via the Washington Post: as of June 11, 2012, ninety percent of the 26,000-plus teachers in the city of Chicago voted to strike if contract negotiations with the city fall apart. At issue are longer school days minus any corresponding increases in pay, and other disputes over class size, restoration of school libraries, art and […]

Filed Under: Chicago, Educators, Parents Tagged With: Stand For Children, teachers strike

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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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