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Education for Sale: The Broad Way Towards Bankruptcy

August 1, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the first section of my paper: Education for Sale: LAUSD Throws the Fight in Its  Competition with Charters.   Despite the fact that the Los Angeles Times receives funding for their education coverage from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, their reporters were still able to publish a leaked copy of the foundation’s […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Broad Foundation, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Great Public Schools Now, LAUSD, Scott Schmerelson, Special Education

Education for Sale: Lack of Oversight

August 1, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the second section of my paper: Education for Sale: LAUSD Throws the Fight in Its  Competition with Charters. The previous section can be found at: The Broad Way Towards Bankruptcy   On the other side of the equation, the CCSA has proven that they are more than willing to compete with the LAUSD […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, Broad Foundation, California Charter School Association, CCSA, David Fehte, Diane Ravitch, Dr. George McKenna, El Camino Real Charter High School, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, Marshall Mayotte, Mónica García, PUC, Ref Rodriguez

Protest against Eli Broad’s charter putsch by Voices Against Privatizing Public Education

August 11, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Eli Broad, a staunch opponent of academic freedom, intellectuals, and the public commons, is one of the leading reactionary billionaires funding the neoliberal slash and burn campaign against public education.

The activists comprising Voices Against Privatizing Public Education, whose efforts were recently highlighted on Professor Diane Ravitch’s blog, are holding a rally/protest in front of the Broad Foundation’s headquarters. This is in response to Broad and his fellow reactionaries’ announcement of plans to privatize more than half the Los Angeles Unified School District within the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: ALEC, Broad Foundation, charter schools, Eli Broad, Emerson Collective, neoliberalism, Privatization, protest, rdsathene, Reed Hastings, resistance, Walton Family Foundation

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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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