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Failing Charter Schools and the LAUSD Board’s Choice

February 11, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Confronted by the state of California with a list of 22 low-performing charter schools, will the LAUSD School Board take action to shut them down?

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Allison Bajracharya, Allison Greenwood Bajracharya, Camino Nuevo, Charter School Accountability, Green Dot, KIPP, Low Performing Schools, NAACP Charter School Moratorium, PUC

Will Students Drown in a Charter School’s Ocean of Debt?

September 18, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Where am I going to leave her today? I have to call in sick.“ – Parent of Student enrolled in a closed charter school Imagine if the LAUSD decided that one of their schools was draining resources from the District and decided to shut it down just days into the start of the school year. […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: City Charter Schools, CSD, GHCHS, GHCS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Granada Hills Charter School, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, Nick Melvoin, Partnership to Uplift Communities, PUC, Ref Rodriguez, Rocio Rivas

Whack-A-Mole: The Los Angeles Approach to Charter School Oversight

January 15, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Our oversight is “proactive and responsive” – José Cole-Gutiérrez, LAUSD Charter School Division Last June, I informed the LAUSD School Board that a charter school under their jurisdiction was violating the privacy of their students by publishing “Parent Volunteer Hours” reports on their website that included student names. The charter’s Chief Development Officer defended the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Alliance, alliance college ready public [sic] schools, Better 4 You Fundraising, El Camino Real Charter High School, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD CSD, LAUSD School Board, NAACP, NAACP Charter School Moratorium, Partnership to Uplift Communities, Partnerships for Developing Futures, PUC, Ref Rodriguez

Education for Sale: Lack of Oversight

August 1, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the second section of my paper: Education for Sale: LAUSD Throws the Fight in Its  Competition with Charters. The previous section can be found at: The Broad Way Towards Bankruptcy   On the other side of the equation, the CCSA has proven that they are more than willing to compete with the LAUSD […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, Broad Foundation, California Charter School Association, CCSA, David Fehte, Diane Ravitch, Dr. George McKenna, El Camino Real Charter High School, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, Marshall Mayotte, Mónica García, PUC, Ref Rodriguez

Ref Rodriguez doesn’t get to claim he’s never heard of California Charter Schools Association

February 2, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Ref Rodriguez doesn't get to claim he's never heard of California Charter Schools Association

By Robert D Skeels   “There’s never a short supply of People of Color willing to tokenize themselves, and prosper, at the expense of marginalized millions.” — Professor Khaled A. Beydoun, Critical Race Theorist The Deasy (LA) School Report blog posted an entry in which Ref Rodriguez tries to distance himself from California Charter Schools Association’s widely […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, neoliberalism, Privatization, PUC, rdsathene, Ref Rodriguez, United Way, UWGLA

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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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