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Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) December General Assembly

November 29, 2016 by Robert D Skeels

Every month students, parents, and teachers of #StudentsDeserve gather to discuss and plan for the future of educational justice inside and outside our schools in Los Angeles. Considering the political state we are in, now more than ever we know that our grassroots work is important and necessary. For that reason, we invite YOU (students, parents, and teachers) to […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, struggle

California charter school industry bill attempts to eliminate only source of public oversight

April 1, 2016 by Robert D Skeels

Save Public Schools! Adult Education Students protest school privatizer Monica Garcia in Koreatown after she voted to shut down all adult schools and use the money for privately managed charters.

“…charter schools have used their public characteristics to qualify for public funding under state constitutional law, while highlighting their private characteristics to exempt themselves from other laws that apply to public schools.”—Professors Preston C. Green and Joseph Oluwole School privatization promoting Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC) EdSource has long been a source of both political cover, […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: Accountability, California, CCSA, charter schools, LAUSD, LAUSD Office of the General Counsel, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization

California’s charter school law repeal movement update

January 13, 2016 by

Join Voices Against Privatizing Public Education's efforts to repeal the California charter school law

“charter schools comprise a divisive and segregated sector” — Frankenberg, E., Siegel-Hawley, G., Wang, J. (2011) Voices Against Privatizing Public Education’s (VAPPE) grassroots campaign to repeal the 1992 charter school laws imposed on California by corporate reactionaries Donald Fisher and Reed Hastings has been moving forward. In addition to their online petition, they’ve established a […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: California, CCSA, charter schools, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, Voices Against Privatizing Public Education

Repeal California Charter Schools movement grows and gains a celebrity-activist endorsement

October 7, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Voices Against Privatizing Public Education protesting billionaire school privatizer Mark Zuckerberg

“Choice rhetoric contemplates the sphere for reformed education as a “market.” The commodification of education in this way has prompted no shortage of critique identifying the ways in which the conditions for a properly functioning education market are difficult—if not impossible—to cultivate. Problems with an education market, however, go beyond the mere absence of ideal […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: California, charter schools, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, Voices Against Privatizing Public Education

Brief statement on Washington State Supreme Court finding charter schools unconstitutional

September 6, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Fix our Public Schools, don't Privatize!

“Though boosted through a language of choice and effectiveness, the charters provide neither. Public funds pay for a system that lacks oversight, transparency, and funnels millions of dollars to privateers, who pocket salaries upwards of $1 million.” — Dr. Megan French-Marcelin By now everyone has heard the wonderful news that the Washington State Supreme Court […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: charter schools, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance to privatization

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) May General Assembly

May 14, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) General Assembly Thursday, May 21, 2015 4:30-6:30PM St. Marks Lutheran Church 3651 South Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (2 blocks north of the Expo line’s Vermont station) Final General Assembly of the school year. This year we have accomplished so much! Parent Leadership Institutes provided space for parents […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, struggle

Alliance corporate charters, teacher organizing, and moral imperatives

March 19, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Alliance corporate charters, teacher organizing, and moral imperatives

First published on solidaridad on March 19, 2015 “The shady nature of Alliance’s real estate dealings, their dismal SAT scores and CSU remediation rates, and their refusal to educate every child are all compelling… [a]llowing these private entities to cherry pick students and avoid educating the most vulnerable and needy students is immoral. Taking a […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Educators, Los Angeles Tagged With: Alliance, alliance college ready public [sic] schools, Judy Burton, labor, LAUSD, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, resistance to privatization, Richard Riorden, UTLA

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) March General Assembly

March 16, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) General Assembly Thursday, March 19, 2015 4:30-6:30PM St. Marks Lutheran Church 3651 South Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (2 blocks north of the Expo line’s Vermont station) Following an invigorating Parent Institute this past Saturday, parents are full of ideas for how to move our work into the […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: CEJ, ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, struggle

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) November General Assembly

November 6, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) General Assembly Thursday, November 6, 2014 4:20-6:45PM St. Marks Lutheran Church 3651 South Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (2 blocks north of the Expo line’s Vermont station) The 2014-2015 school year is our time to take concrete action together and change the educational system and bigger systems that […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: CEJ, ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, struggle

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) August General Assembly

August 28, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) General Assembly Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:15-6:30PM Southern California Library 6120 S. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles CA 90044 SLASD five focal areas (the first four are part of the proposed School Board Motion): Offer critical thinking and creative classes like art and ethnic studies instead of test prep classes […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles Tagged With: ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, struggle

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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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