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United Way Greater Los Angeles creates ad campaign for their biased LAUSD candidate forums

February 7, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Eli Broad's 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 […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Board of education, LAUSD, Nonprofit Industrial Complex, NPIC, School Board, United Way, UWGLA

A District 5 LAUSD debate forum not ruled by Eli Broad’s United Way Greater Los Angeles PR firm

February 3, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

A District 5 LAUSD debate forum not ruled by Eli Broad's United Way Greater Los Angeles PR firm

“To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.”—Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed This event is being hosted by an elected Neighborhood Council, not by the billionaire funded Non-profit Industrial Complex (NPIC) like Eli Broad’s United Way Greater Los Angeles PR […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Board of education, BOE, Education Politics, Eli Broad, LAUSD, rdsathene, School Board, United Way, UWGLA

Ref Rodriguez doesn’t get to claim he’s never heard of California Charter Schools Association

February 2, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

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 […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, neoliberalism, Privatization, PUC, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez, United Way, UWGLA

Want the best turnout of candidates? Hold community, rather than corporate, LAUSD debate forums!

January 31, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Left to right: Eleanor Garcia, Annamarie Montañez, Isabel Vazquez, Abelardo Diaz, Michelle "HOPE" Walker, Robert D. Skeels, and Scott Folsom. Seven of the eight 2013 candidates for LAUSD District 2 at the CARECEN November 15, 2012 forum. Photo by Sean Abajian.

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: […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Board of education, Education Politics, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Nonprofit Industrial Complex, NPIC, Privatization, rdsathene, School Board, United Way

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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 […]

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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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