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Let The Next Round Of Anti-Semitic Ads Begin

March 8, 2020 by Carl J. Petersen

All four pro-public education candidates came in first in their LAUSD school board elections, but two will face run-offs in November.

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Angelica Dueñas, Brad Sherman, California Charter School Association, CCSA, Christy Smith, CJ Berina, Cyndi Otteson, Dr. Silke Bradford, Elizabeth Badger, George McKenna, Jackie Goldberg, John Lee, Kevin De Leon, LAUSD, Loraine Lundquist, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Lydia Gutierrez, Marilyn Koziatek, Mark Reed, Mike Lansing, Mónica García, Patricia Castellanos, Ref Rodriguez, Scott Schmerelson, Steve Knight, Tanya Ortiz Franklin, Tony Cardenas, UTLA

LAUSD Candidate Profile: Elizabeth Badger

January 26, 2020 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the last of two articles profiling the candidates running to represent the residents of LAUSD’s Board District 3.

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Elizabeth Badger, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Scott Schmerelson, Speak Up, Special Education, Special Education Centers, UTLA

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

State of Denial: How Do Charter Schools Meet the Needs of Students in Special Education

September 16, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The Los Angeles School Board is presented with a report detailing the discrepancies in enrollment between charter and public schools.

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Mónica García, Special Education, State of Denial, UTLA

The Country’s Second Largest School District Enters a New Era

July 6, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The charter industry loses its grip on the LAUSD School Board’s Presidency. Is the oversight of Superintendent Austin Beutner next?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Austin Beutner, California Charter School Association, Cassy Horton, CCSA, Jackie Goldberg, John Deasy, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Mónica García, Nick Melvoin, Ref Rodriguez, Richard Vladovic, UTLA

The LAUSD Empire Strikes Back

March 19, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Parents are caught unaware as Austin “Darth” Beutner quietly launches a plan that could close the libraries in some LAUSD elementary schools.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Austin Beutner, LAUSD, libraries, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, UTLA

The LAUSD Superintendent’s Web of Deceit

February 5, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The newly revealed lobbying contract with Sebastian Ridley-Thomas isn’t Beutner’s first dance with scandal-plagued former state assemblyman.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alex Johnson, Austin Beutner, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Mónica García, Sebastian Ridley-Thomas, UTLA

Austin Beutner Must Go

January 21, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

As the LAUSD strike drags on it is abundantly clear that the only way to bring an end to the chaos is to fire the Superintendent.

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Austin Beutner, LAUSD, Mónica García, Nick Melvoin, Scott Schmerelson, 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

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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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