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 […]
Archives for January 2016
King Us
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 […]
California’s charter school law repeal movement update
“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 […]
Edison Schools: Proof That Grifters Can Be Defeated, Part II
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 […]
Edison Schools: Proof That Grifters Can Be Defeated, Part I
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 […]
Throwing Bricks at the Wall
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 […]