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The Children Are Left Behind in LAUSD School Board Race

February 18, 2020 by Carl J. Petersen

As the California Charter School Association and their allies spend millions on negative ads, education issues are swept aside.

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alice Walton, Anti-Semitism, California Charter School Association, CCSA, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Marilyn Koziatek, Nick Melvoin, Reed Hastings, Scott Schmerelson, Speak Up

LAUSD Candidate Profile: Scott Schmerelson

January 25, 2020 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the first of two articles profiling the candidates running to represent the residents of LAUSD’s Board District 3.

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Nick Melvoin, Ref Rodriguez, Scott Schmerelson, Speak Up

LAUSD Candidate Profile: Tanya Franklin

January 16, 2020 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the third in a series of articles profiling the candidates who are seeking to replace Dr. Vladovic in LAUSD’s Board District 7.

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: 2020 Elections, Antonio Villaraigosa, Board District 7, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Marshall Tuck, Nick Melvoin, Richard Vladovic, Tanya Franklin, Tanya Ortiz Franklin

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

Using Students with Severe Special Education Needs As Lab Rats In An Education “Reform” Experiment

December 27, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Was LAUSD’s plan to limit accessibility to Special Education Centers in the best interests of the students who needed those services?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Special ed Tagged With: Chanda Smith, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Modified Consent Decree, Nick Melvoin, Special Education, Special Education Centers

Special Education Program at Fairfax High School Is Safe For Now

December 16, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Nick Melvoin’s plan to displace a school for students with special needs is temporarily delayed. Will the other LAUSD board members fight to save it?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: CTC, CTC West, Fairfax, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Nick Melvoin

A School Board Member’s Latest Attack on Special Education

November 25, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Nick Melvoin’s plans for an exclusive new middle school include displacing children with special education needs from Fairfax High School.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Special ed Tagged With: CTC, CTC West, Fairfax, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Mónica García, Nick Melvoin, Special Education

Charter School Industry’s Data Plan Goes Bust

November 14, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The School Performance Framework (SPF) written by those who would like to privatize public education has been revoked by the LAUSD board with a 6-1 vote.

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: George McKenna, Jackie Goldberg, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Nick Melvoin, School Performance Framework, SPF

Caught in a Venn Diagram in “Progressive” West Hollywood

November 13, 2019 by Tracy Abbott Cook

I stood near the nine school buses watching the teachers help the special education students climb the stairs and step between the curb and the bus door. These are the ‘short’ buses that have been the butt of jokes for decades. My heart ached. Where are all these nine buses of students going to go if this middle school pushes them out?

Filed Under: Charter Schools, featured, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Magnet schools, Parents, School Boards Tagged With: Nick Melvoin

When Facts Get In The Way, Change Them

November 8, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The information age should have held truth to power. Instead, politicians from a school board member to the president just create new realities.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California Charter School Association, CCSA, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Nick Melvoin, Speak Up, SPF

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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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