“The Tip of the Iceberg: Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” Exposes Costly Consequences of Lacking Charter Schools Accountability, Transparency ** Full report available here: http://bit.ly/1DDlpjM ** A new report by the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS) and the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) found that financial fraud, waste, and mismanagement by […]
Archives for April 2015
LAUSD District 5: Money, education and the school board race! On KPFK’s Politics or Pedagogy? with John Cromshow
Featuring an analysis of education, policy and practice affecting our public schools. KPFK 90.7 FM KPFK’s Politics or Pedagogy? with John Cromshow Tuesday, April 28 7:00 PM Call in number: (818) 985-5735 TOPIC: Money, education and the school board race. Case in point, LAUSD District 5. It takes money to run a political campaign – […]
The Daily Breeze’s Pulitzer Win Is Everybody’s Win Too: Join K12NN And Grassroots Investigative Journalism on the Education Beat
This past week the Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism were announced, and we were elated that we didn’t win! (We forgot to enter. 😉 ) But another Southern California local news outlet did, for an investigative series they produced on corruption in Centinela Valley Union High School District. We’re exceedingly proud any time people who give […]
How is CCSA’s Ref Rodriguez hiding his billionaire and ideologue contributors?
“In the long run, charter schools are being strategically used to pave the way for vouchers. The voucher advocates, who are very powerful and funded by right-wing foundations and families, recognize that the word voucher has been successfully discredited by enlightened Americans who believe in the public sector. So they’ve resorted to two strategies. First, […]
“NY’s New Teacher Rating System is a Farce,” And Experienced Corporate Managers Agree
Damon Buffum is a school board member in NY state and a supporter of a strong public education system. This post is republished with his permission. Full disclosure: I’m a Corporate Guy. For the past 26 years I’ve worked for large, multinational, corporations. I’ve worked for my current corporation for the past 19 years and […]
Why can’t the LA Times get early education right?
In How to even the educational playing field for Latino kids The Los Angeles Times discusses the work of UC Berkeley’s Professor Bruce Fuller, but draw several wrong conclusions. They get it half right when they say “The discrepancy starts much earlier, and even high-quality preschool makes up only about a third of the deficit.” […]
Help Pass H.R. 973 & Secure A Full Retirement for Teachers!
Should affiliated groups and former allies of teachers be speaking up about full social security benefits for teachers? Yes they should, but many of these groups have been quiet so far. The teachers unions are currently working hard to pass H.R. 973, a bill that would remove penalties on teachers retiring in several states where […]
K12NN Podcast: ESEA Reauthorization With Parents Across America
Check Out Politics Progressive Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with MOMocrats on BlogTalkRadio The Parents Across America 2/23/15 position paper with highlights to desired changes in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is embedded below for your convenience. Follow along as I talk with Pamela Grundy about how to re-orient national education policy for the […]
PROFITS! Why Ref Rodriguez and his CCSA covet the LAUSD Board Seat
“The education industry represents, in our opinion, the final frontier of a number of sectors once under public control… represents the largest market opportunity… the K-12 market is the Big Enchilada.” — Montgomery Securities prospectus quoted in Jonathan Kozol’s The Big Enchilada Most of the time the charter school industry’s corporate leadership is able to […]