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The LAUSD’s 2019 Report Card

December 31, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

There were huge changes in the last year for the second largest school district in the country. A look back at some of the major events…

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Austin Beutner, California Charter School Association, CCSA, Chanda Smith, EE, iPads, Jackie Goldberg, John Deasy, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, MiSiS, Modified Consent Decree, Nick Melvoin, Ref Rodriguez, Special Education, State of Denial, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

Steve Zimmer: A Last Stand Between Public Education and the Privatizers

May 8, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

As a special education and parent advocate who has run twice in LAUSD elections under the rallying cry of “Change The LAUSD”, my first inclination is to recommend against a vote for the incumbent in the District 4 Board race. However, as the election of Trump has shown, voting with a “throw the bums out” […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: iPad, John Deasy, LAUSD, MiSiS, Nick Melvoin, Steve Zimmer

The Long Shadow of John Deasy

January 10, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” – George Santayana It has been more than two years since LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy was forced to resign in disgrace. Unfortunately, the legacy that he has left for the District’s students echoes into the present day. After spending at least $189 million on […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California Charter School Association, CCSA, iPad, John Deasy, Mark Geragos, MiSiS, Mónica García, Steve Zimmer

The Deasy Debacle: Six New Rules for a New Superintendent

October 18, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Roberta Eidman, MPH. She is a community member and resident of Los Angeles interested in a healthy public commons and excellent public schools for ALL children. The Deasy era was never really about Public Education. It was never really about the kids, or their parents, or the future of Los Angeles as a cultural […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Ed Tech, Educators, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: iPad, John Deasy, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, LAUSD Superintendent, MiSiS

Los Angeles Unified Must Refocus: Five Ways Bad Ed Tech Deals in LAUSD Hurt Kids Right Now

October 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Recently released investigative reports by Southern California radio station KPCC have increased public scrutiny of Superintendent John Deasy’s cozy relationships with Apple and Pearson executives in the period 2011 to 2013, before both corporations won the 2013 bid to supply Los Angeles Unified with iPads and software. This is the infamous “$1 billion iPad” deal […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Budgets, Ed Tech, Educators, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Deasy, iPads, LAUSD, MiSiS, Superintendent John Deasy

John Deasy’s MiSiS cRiSiS shocks LAUSD’s conscience

August 17, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

The LAUSD MiSiS cRiSiS is Deasy's Disaster.

“I was interested in the fact that the scandal over Deasy’s PhD hit the headlines at the same time he was hired by Gates. His financial connections with Robert Felner date back to his Santa Monica days” — Susan Ohanian Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Superintendent John Deasy’s job was to insure that the […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, School Boards, Uncategorized Tagged With: LAUSD, MiSiS, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, Superintendent John Deasy

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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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