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Public Support For UTLA Demands Is A Rejection of Beutner Et Al’s Top Down, Discredited, and Out of Touch Profiteering

January 18, 2019 by cynthia

In Superintendent Austin Beutner’s Los Angeles Unified, it’s as if the 2018 elections never happened, or that Donald Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education had never turned a glaring klieg light on the avarice of “school choice” Democrats under Obama who suddenly found themselves aligned with voucher-loving, charter school-pushing megadonors to the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Austin Beutner, LAUSD, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

LAUSD School Board Meeting Update, April 12, 2016 – Charter Schools

April 16, 2016 by cynthia

Filed by Cheryl Ortega April 13, 2016 At the LAUSD Board of Ed yesterday, I listened to a parade of charter organizations appealing for their school to open or to continue to operate. One in particular, called the Eduvate Hybrid Charter High School, brought about 10 speakers. Have to say, I don’t quite get the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: California

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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