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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 Elizabeth Badger Responds

January 29, 2020 by Carl J. Petersen

The Board District 3 candidate has demanded a retraction to the candidate profile that was written about her.

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Elizabeth Badger, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Scott Schmerelson, Speak Up

LAUSD Candidate Profile: Elizabeth Badger

January 26, 2020 by Carl J. Petersen

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

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Elizabeth Badger, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Scott Schmerelson, Speak Up, Special Education, Special Education Centers, UTLA

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

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

Manipulating Data for the Benefit of Charter Schools

September 17, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Instead of providing parents with information, The School Performance Framework (SPF) was doctored to serve the needs of the charter school industry.

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

LAUSD’s Board District 5 Is Still Unrepresented

November 20, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

We are living at a time in our nation when democracy and true representative government is being attacked and eroded at every level of leadership” – LAUSD Board Member Scott Schmerelson It has been almost three months since the LAUSD School Board rejected Board Member Scott Schmerelson’s “Providing a Voice and a Vote for the […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: Dr. George McKenna, Justine Gonzalez, Nick Melvoin, Ref Rodriguez, Richard Vladovic, Rocio Rivas, Scott Schmerelson, Speak Up

The Charter School Industry Puts Bigotry Front and Center

August 24, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Appointing a non-Latino candidate like Goldberg to the seat, even temporarily, ‘is definitely not in the spirit of the law. It would seem contrary to what LAUSD’s own commission did’ when it drew the district.“ – Political Consultant Mike Trujillo Speak Up is a pro-charter group that was formed in the Palisades on the west […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Board District 5, Dr. George McKenna, Jackie Goldberg, Nick Melvoin, Speak Up

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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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