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The LAUSD’s 2019 Report Card

December 31, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

There were huge changes in the last year for the second largest school district in the country. A look back at some of the major events…

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Austin Beutner, California Charter School Association, CCSA, Chanda Smith, EE, iPads, Jackie Goldberg, John Deasy, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, MiSiS, Modified Consent Decree, Nick Melvoin, Ref Rodriguez, Special Education, State of Denial, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

Austin Beutner Must Go

January 21, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

As the LAUSD strike drags on it is abundantly clear that the only way to bring an end to the chaos is to fire the Superintendent.

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Austin Beutner, LAUSD, Mónica García, Nick Melvoin, Scott Schmerelson, Strike, UTLA

Who “Taught” Your LAUSD Student Last Week?

January 19, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Teachers are professionals that are trained to handle the many needs of their students. What about the people taking over during the strike?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: AALA, LAUSD, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

Public Support For UTLA Demands Is A Rejection of Beutner Et Al’s Top Down, Discredited, and Out of Touch Profiteering

January 18, 2019 by cynthia

In Superintendent Austin Beutner’s Los Angeles Unified, it’s as if the 2018 elections never happened, or that Donald Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education had never turned a glaring klieg light on the avarice of “school choice” Democrats under Obama who suddenly found themselves aligned with voucher-loving, charter school-pushing megadonors to the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Austin Beutner, LAUSD, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

Kids First?

January 15, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

“[If there is a strike] these students’ health and safety would be in jeopardy.They could get hurt, hurt themselves, or hurt others.” – Exhibit A in LAUSD Court Filing With their teachers set to walk out of their classrooms, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) needs bodies. In order to get the upper hand […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: LAUSD, Miramonte, Nick Melvoin, Scott Schmerelson, Strike

Lowering Class Size: If Not Now, When?

January 1, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

If current and past members of the LAUSD School Board have called for lower class sizes, why are they battling their union on the issue?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: charter schools, class size, Great Recession, LAUSD, Mónica García, National Education Association, NEA, Nick Melvoin, Steve Zimmer, Strike, Tamar Galatzan, UTLA

As Strike Looms, LAUSD Special Education Practices Come Into Focus

December 23, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

With District leaders openly hostile towards the needs of students in special education classes, can the union extract essential changes?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Special ed, Uncategorized Tagged With: ADA, Contract Talks, LAUSD, March for Public Ed, March for Public Education, Mónica García, Special Education, Strike

LAUSD Increases Salary Offer, Teachers Hold Out for Students

November 14, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Salary: 6% on-schedule raise, including 3% retroactive for 2017-18, plus 3% raise for 2018-19” – LAUSD The LAUSD has already signed contracts with their other major unions that “included raises totaling about 6%.” It was, therefore, unclear why the District’s initial offer to the teachers was to only raise their salaries by 2%. This seemed […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized, Unionism Tagged With: class size, LAUSD, March for Public Education, Strike, teachers strike, UTLA

Supporting Parents and Students

November 11, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

“We stand with our teachers’ union, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), in calling for a real investment in our neighborhood public schools, so that all students have an equal opportunity.” – Northridge East Neighborhood Council The Northridge East Neighborhood Council (NENC) is one of 99 Neighborhood Councils in the City of Los Angeles. These Councils […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Unionism Tagged With: LAUSD, Parent Activism, Schools Students Deserve, Strike, UTLA

What My Students Wrote in a Free Write About the Strike

September 15, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

The Friday before the strike was anticipated to possibly start here in Chicago. I asked my students the simple question at the end of a quiz, “Should your teachers go on strike?” Here is a sampling of their responses. This was a free write so I just typed what they had written. “I Support my […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Chicago, City, Curriculum, Educators, School Districts, Students Tagged With: Better School Day, Chicago, Chicago Teachers Strike, Evaluation, Fair Contract, Family, Raise, Strike

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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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