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LAUSD Law

July 14, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

The 14-year-old student “went to a motel in which she engaged in voluntary consensual sex with her teacher. Why shouldn’t she be responsible for that?” – W. Keith Wyatt, representing the LAUSD The LAUSD’s Office of the General Counsel (GC) employs a legal staff whose mission is to “provide effective and proactive legal advice and […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: David Holmquist, Eric Ortiz, LAUSD, LAUSD Office of the General Counsel, Littler Mendelson PC, Office of the General Counsel, Vanderford & Ruiz, W. Keith Wyatt

California charter school industry bill attempts to eliminate only source of public oversight

April 1, 2016 by Robert D Skeels

Save Public Schools! Adult Education Students protest school privatizer Monica Garcia in Koreatown after she voted to shut down all adult schools and use the money for privately managed charters.

“…charter schools have used their public characteristics to qualify for public funding under state constitutional law, while highlighting their private characteristics to exempt themselves from other laws that apply to public schools.”—Professors Preston C. Green and Joseph Oluwole School privatization promoting Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC) EdSource has long been a source of both political cover, […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: Accountability, California, CCSA, charter schools, LAUSD, LAUSD Office of the General Counsel, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization

Redacted

February 26, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Following up to our email exchange of last week, attached for your reference is a redacted UCP complaint. As you can see, most of the information has been redacted due to confidentiality issues.” -LAUSD, Office of the General Counsel After declaring that they had “no further documents to provide”, the LAUSD finally emailed one of […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: California Public Records Act, Granada Hills Charter High School, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD Office of the General Counsel, LAUSD School Board

Obstruction in the “Public Interest”?

February 22, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

At the present time, we have no further documents to provide you and you cannot request over and over that we search and search again and again.  You cannot continue to ask that we provide you with documents that are non-existent, confidential, exempt, or subject to the deliberative process.” -LAUSD, Office of the General Counsel […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California Public Records Act, Granada Hills Charter High School, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD Office of the General Counsel

Throwing Bricks at the Wall

January 2, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Nothing changes on New Year’s Day” -U2 Familiarity is the enemy of a movement that operates under the moniker of Change The LAUSD, but that did not stop 2015 from ending in territory that was too familiar. The Office of the General Counsel had promised that “responsive documents [would] be provided on or before December […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Uncategorized Tagged With: California Public Records Act, Change the LAUSD, LAUSD, LAUSD Office of the General Counsel

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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 […]

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