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LAUSD District 5: Money, education and the school board race! On KPFK’s Politics or Pedagogy? with John Cromshow

April 27, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

KPFK's Politics or Pedagogy? with John Cromshow

Featuring an analysis of education, policy and practice affecting our public schools. KPFK 90.7 FM KPFK’s Politics or Pedagogy? with John Cromshow Tuesday, April 28 7:00 PM Call in number: (818) 985-5735 TOPIC: Money, education and the school board race. Case in point, LAUSD District 5. It takes money to run a political campaign – […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, CCSA, LAUSD, neoliberalism, plutocrats, Politics or Pedagogy?, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez, School board elections

Open letter to Andrew Thomas regarding the LAUSD District 5 runoff

March 18, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Cheryl A. Guerrero for KPCC

 Dr. Andrew Thomas: Congratulations on your respectable election finish, and on noting on your website that out-of-town billionaires are financing the campaign of charter industry profiteer Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez against an incumbent endorsed by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). Your analysis ignores the fact that most UTLA teachers are also public school parents, live […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Andrew Thomas, Bennett Kayser, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, neoliberalism, plutocrats, Privatization, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez

The case against Alex Johnson

July 25, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Poverty pimp Alex Johnson puts profits before pupils

The original draft of this essay was written in mid-June, 2014. The figures cited in the piece are indicative of the Form-460 information available at that time. I will be writing another piece which discusses the currently fundraising figures soon. Given the despicable smear job the Johnson campaign has run against the distinguished Dr. McKenna, […]

Filed Under: Elections, Los Angeles, School Districts Tagged With: Election, LAUSD, neoliberalism, plutocrats, Privatization, School Board

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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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