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Charter Schools Are Failing and Our Democracy Pays the Price

September 28, 2018 by Dr. Rocio Rivas

“The ideals of education, whether men [sic] are taught to teach or plow, to weave or to write, must not be allowed to sink into sordid utilitarianism. Education must keep broad ideals before it, and never forget that it is dealing with Souls and not with Dollars.” 1902, W.E.B. DuBois, educator and civil rights leader. Not […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, Parents, Profiteering, Research Tagged With: charter school super-networks, charter schools, democracy, neo-liberalism, parents, privatization of public education, Public Education, segregation, Students

Are Ticket Scalpers Missing an Opportunity at These School Board Meetings?

September 28, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Numbered wristbands will be distributed by District security officers to individuals in line outside of the Board Room doors starting at 8 a.m. Those who wish to attend this meeting should reassemble in numerical order by 12 noon to enter the Board Room and, if interested, to sign up to speak.” – LAUSD Before the […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Board Meeting Accessibility to the Public, California Charter School Association, CCSA, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, parent engagement

Six Ways to Boost Parent Attendance at LAUSD School Board Meetings — Support This Resolution!

September 27, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Thanks to the Brown Act, by law, public meetings of school boards in the state of California are  made accessible to the public for attendance and comment. But almost two-thirds of parents in two parent households work outside the home, as do about the same numbers of single-parent families. Meetings held during daytime working hours […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, Uncategorized Tagged With: Accountability, LAUSD School Board

Will Students Drown in a Charter School’s Ocean of Debt?

September 18, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Where am I going to leave her today? I have to call in sick.“ – Parent of Student enrolled in a closed charter school Imagine if the LAUSD decided that one of their schools was draining resources from the District and decided to shut it down just days into the start of the school year. […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: City Charter Schools, CSD, GHCHS, GHCS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Granada Hills Charter School, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, Nick Melvoin, Partnership to Uplift Communities, PUC, Ref Rodriguez, Rocio Rivas

Second Largest School District Faces Teachers Strike

September 5, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

There is currently an effort to call for a strike that pits adults versus adults when students and their families will bear the brunt of a strike action.“ – LAUSD School Board Having gladly accepted the title of “a gadfly at the school board meetings”, I have a natural tendency to be suspicious of the […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: class size, libraries, magnet schools, Public Education, school nurses, Special Education, teachers strike, Testing

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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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