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Alliance corporate charters, teacher organizing, and moral imperatives

March 19, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Alliance corporate charters, teacher organizing, and moral imperatives

First published on solidaridad on March 19, 2015 “The shady nature of Alliance’s real estate dealings, their dismal SAT scores and CSU remediation rates, and their refusal to educate every child are all compelling… [a]llowing these private entities to cherry pick students and avoid educating the most vulnerable and needy students is immoral. Taking a […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Educators, Los Angeles Tagged With: Alliance, alliance college ready public [sic] schools, Judy Burton, labor, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance to privatization, Richard Riorden, UTLA

Open letter to Andrew Thomas regarding the LAUSD District 5 runoff

March 18, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Cheryl A. Guerrero for KPCC

 Dr. Andrew Thomas: Congratulations on your respectable election finish, and on noting on your website that out-of-town billionaires are financing the campaign of charter industry profiteer Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez against an incumbent endorsed by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). Your analysis ignores the fact that most UTLA teachers are also public school parents, live […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Andrew Thomas, Bennett Kayser, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, neoliberalism, plutocrats, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) March General Assembly

March 16, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) General Assembly Thursday, March 19, 2015 4:30-6:30PM St. Marks Lutheran Church 3651 South Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (2 blocks north of the Expo line’s Vermont station) Following an invigorating Parent Institute this past Saturday, parents are full of ideas for how to move our work into the […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: CEJ, ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, struggle

How do Karin Klein and Los Angeles Times define “high-performing”?

March 14, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

How do Karin Klein and Los Angeles Times define "high-performing"?

Sent to the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 2015 Re: Teachers at Alliance charter group push to form union http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-alliance-charter-story.html The author here calls the Alliance’s corporate chain a “high-performing charter group”. I’m curious if that inaccurate designation came directly from either Alliance’s or the California Charter Schools Association’s marketing departments? Despite claiming that […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles Tagged With: Alliance, corporate education agenda, Judy Burton, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, Richard Riorden

Pearson Is NOT “Spying” On Student Tweets, It’s Enlisting Public School Officials To Defend Its Intellectual Property

March 14, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Cynthia Liu is CEO/Founder of K-12 News Network. Bob Braun, an education blogger and former journalist, got ahold of a note from a school superintendent advising parents in the district that a student in NJ had tweeted outside of school hours about a PARCC test he had completed earlier when school was still in session.* […]

Filed Under: Educators, Parents, School Districts, The Testing Industry

Guest Post: Who is paying for Tamar Galatzan’s flashy mailers?

March 1, 2015 by cynthia

Tamar Galatzan and the discredited John Deasy

An anonymous parent sent this informative Op Ed. Have you noticed how Tamar Galatzan is stuffing your mailbox?   Where is Tamar getting all this money?   Tamar Galatzan, running for Board District 3, has been a disaster for LAUSD.   In 2011, she authored a resolution to increase technology and took full credit when disgraced […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Board of education, Guest Post, LAUSD, School Board, Tamar Galatzan

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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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