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Watered Down Charter School Reform Bill Falls Short

September 3, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

A compromise brokered by Governor Newsom will allow unelected county officials to continue overturning decisions by local school boards.

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Alex Johnson, California Charter School Association, CCSA, Gavin Newsom, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Magnolia, Magnolia Charter Schools, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Michael Kohlhaas dot org

The LAUSD Superintendent’s Web of Deceit

February 5, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The newly revealed lobbying contract with Sebastian Ridley-Thomas isn’t Beutner’s first dance with scandal-plagued former state assemblyman.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alex Johnson, Austin Beutner, LAUSD, Los Angeles Unified School District, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Mónica García, Sebastian Ridley-Thomas, UTLA

Separate and Unequal: The NAACP Report on Public Education

August 8, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

We urge you to make this a living NAACP action plan with a mandate and roadmap for saving America’s public schools by advocating for public quality education in every sector.” – NAACP Task Force on Quality Education When confronting the newly anointed Los Angeles County Board of Education President about his support for a charter […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: Alex Johnson, Moratorium, NAACP

You Can’t Keep a Bad Charter Down

May 10, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

No question about @MagnoliaSchools academic superiority – questioning your reading skills.” -Alex Johnson, VP LA County Board of Education Specifically, the CAASPP results in ELA and Math indicate that in both 2014-15 and 2015-16, 0% of the school’s English Learner (EL) population met or exceeded proficiency.” – LA County Office of Education Staff As the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alex Johnson, California Charter School Association, CCSA, LAUSD, Magnolia, Magnolia Charter Schools, Nick Melvoin, SB-808, Steve Zimmer

Alex Johnson, who ducked my interview and at least six candidate forums, asks why Dr. McKenna won’t respond to the Deasy School Report?

August 11, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

The Deasy School Report

He has dodged multiple requests for policy positions, undoubtably because he is a hand puppet for the neoliberal corporate education reformers. — Robert D. Skeels Neoliberal corporate education reform candidate for Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Alex Johnson holds a Juris Doctor, while I am merely a first year law student. That said, I’ve […]

Filed Under: Elections, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Alex Johnson, Dr. George McKenna, Jamie Alter Lynton, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, Superintendent John Deasy

Is there any billionaire, charter profiteer, poverty pimp, or right-wing ideologue that Alex Johnson won’t take money from?

August 8, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Poverty pimp Alex Johnson puts profits before pupils

In calling for a special election, what Mark Ridley-Thomas, Alex Johnson, Rev. Tulloss, Corri Revere, and the charter schools along with their billionaire puppet masters are really saying is we have to hurt the children to protect the children.—Celes King IV We’ve looked at some of Alex “ALEC” Johnson’s funders during the primary election in […]

Filed Under: Elections, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Alex Johnson, CCSA, Dr. George McKenna, Eli Broad, LAUSD, Michelle Rhee, Privatization, rdsathene, StudentsFirst

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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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