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The Great and Powerful Executive Director

January 25, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

It is the Board’s desire to make the GHCHS Executive Director position one of the top compensated positions in Los Angeles.” -Granada Hills Charter High School Governing Board As a school receiving public funds, the first focus of its leaders is supposed to be the students that they serve. This was certainly the promise when […]

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King Us

January 15, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

A former Montgomery County, Md., schools chief backed away, calling L.A. Unified ‘a total mess.’” -Los Angeles Times After the LAUSD spent 15 months without a Superintendent that did not have “interim” in his title, the School Board finally did their job and hired a replacement for John Deasy. The fact that Michelle King is […]

Filed Under: LAUSD Tagged With: David Binkle, LAUSD School Board, LAUSD Superintendent, Michelle King

California’s charter school law repeal movement update

January 13, 2016 by

Join Voices Against Privatizing Public Education's efforts to repeal the California charter school law

“charter schools comprise a divisive and segregated sector” — Frankenberg, E., Siegel-Hawley, G., Wang, J. (2011) Voices Against Privatizing Public Education’s (VAPPE) grassroots campaign to repeal the 1992 charter school laws imposed on California by corporate reactionaries Donald Fisher and Reed Hastings has been moving forward. In addition to their online petition, they’ve established a […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: California, CCSA, charter schools, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, Voices Against Privatizing Public Education

Edison Schools: Proof That Grifters Can Be Defeated, Part II

January 13, 2016 by K12NN Site Admin

Charter School Fraud Robs ALL our students!

By Caroline Grannan, parent activist Part II The fun of getting interviewed by a hostile though icily courteous New York Times reporter. This is a follow-up to my earlier post marking the 15th anniversary of the Edison Schools controversy in San Francisco, which launched me as a mommy volunteer critic of so-called education “reform” until […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, San Francisco, School Districts Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, Edison Schools, For-profit schools

Edison Schools: Proof That Grifters Can Be Defeated, Part I

January 13, 2016 by K12NN Site Admin

Charter School Fraud Robs ALL our students!

By Caroline Grannan, parent activist Part I It’s been 15 years this month since the Edison Schools sh*tstorm hit San Francisco and I got deeply involved as a mommy volunteer advocate, and stayed that way for a long time. Edison Schools Inc. was a for-profit company that sold itself to school districts as a manager […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, San Francisco, School Districts Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, Edison Schools, For-profit schools

Throwing Bricks at the Wall

January 2, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Nothing changes on New Year’s Day” -U2 Familiarity is the enemy of a movement that operates under the moniker of Change The LAUSD, but that did not stop 2015 from ending in territory that was too familiar. The Office of the General Counsel had promised that “responsive documents [would] be provided on or before December […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Uncategorized Tagged With: California Public Records Act, Change the LAUSD, LAUSD, LAUSD Office of the General Counsel

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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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