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(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Opt-Out)

July 28, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

“All students must participate fully in GHCHS assessments in their 9th, 10th and 11th grade year to be eligible to participate in optional activities such as senior activities, school extracurricular activities and school athletics. Students who clearly disregard an assessment as determined by the testing coordinator or test proctor will be regarded as having refused […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Common Core, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Charters, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, high stakes standardized testing, Opt-Out

Low Expectations and the Oversight of Charter Schools

April 26, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

With respect to the reimbursement of any cap and gown fees charged previously, it is the expectation of the CSD that GHCHS will provide notice to all affected parents of students in the 2014-2015 graduating class regarding options for reimbursement or other remedy.” – LAUSD Charter Schools Division Month after month, the LAUSD School Board […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: charter schools, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD School Board, Mónica García, Opt-Out, Ref Rodriguez

Send Your Child to a Charter, Sign Away Your Parental Rights?

April 12, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Our School “is permitted to meet with your child without your knowledge of prior consent.” –James W. Salin, GHCHS Governing Board Chair Like a page out of 1984, Granada Hills Charter High School (GHCHS) includes stock language in responses to complaints asserting that “GHCHS values your input”, while the actual response shows the direct opposite. […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering Tagged With: Granada Hills Charter High School, LAUSD Charter School Division, Opt-Out, parent engagement, parent rights

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

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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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