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Standing Up For Our Public Schools

June 10, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

Charters are publicly funded but privately managed and, like most privately run businesses, the schools prefer to avoid transparency in their operations.” – Bobbi Murray / Capital and Main In the past five years, the LAUSD Board had denied nine charter renewals while renewing at least 162. The charter industry, therefore, considered the Board to […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Celerity, charter fraud, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Magnolia

Shell Game

August 15, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

“Closed Session…significant exposure to litigation pursuant to paragraph (2) or (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 54956.9: 1 Case” -El Camino Real Alliance Board Meeting Agenda A surefire way to rile up a charter advocate is to compare charters to “public schools”. In response, they will claim that “Charters [SIC] schools are public schools.” While […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Brown Act, charter fraud, El Camino Real Charter High School

Looking For Solutions, Not To Be Placated

February 6, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Placate: “to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures” -Dictionary.com Executive Director Brian Bauer’s response to my inquiry fit a pattern that has become distressingly familiar. During my inspection of documents requested under the California Public Records Act, Bauer’s assistant had told me that, under Granada Hills Charter High School (GHCHS) policy, I […]

Filed Under: LAUSD Tagged With: charter fraud, charter schools, LAUSD, Opt-Out, Parental Rights

Didn’t dullard Duncan say Katrina was the best thing to happen to New Orleans?

May 13, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

The absolute worst education President, and Secretary of Education in U.S. history.

“…let me be really honest. I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.” — Arne Duncan The absolute worst education President, and Secretary of Education in U.S. history. For Immediate Release: May 13, 2015Contact: Madison Donzis, madison@fitzgibbonmedia.com, 210.488.6220 New Report Exposes Holes in Louisiana’s Charter School Program and Millions […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: Arne Duncan, charter crime, charter fraud, education reform, malfeasance, neoliberalism, New Orleans, Privatization, rdsathene, RSD

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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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