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Don’t let Wendy Carrillo implement the Betsy DeVos agenda!

December 2, 2017 by Robert D Skeels

Carrillo campaign mailer paid for by the CCSA

“[C]harter schools with privately appointed boards do not represent the public but make decisions about how public funds are spent…” — NAACP Wendy Carrillo is an enemy of public education. Carrillo is a contributing “network member” of the right-wing Education Post, an anti-public education and pro-privatization outfit funded by the Walton Family Foundation and other […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles Tagged With: betsy devos, California Charter Schools Association, CCSA, charter school corruption, Los Angeles, neoliberalism, politics, Privatization, Walton Family Foundation

Protest against Eli Broad’s charter putsch by Voices Against Privatizing Public Education

August 11, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Eli Broad, a staunch opponent of academic freedom, intellectuals, and the public commons, is one of the leading reactionary billionaires funding the neoliberal slash and burn campaign against public education.

The activists comprising Voices Against Privatizing Public Education, whose efforts were recently highlighted on Professor Diane Ravitch’s blog, are holding a rally/protest in front of the Broad Foundation’s headquarters. This is in response to Broad and his fellow reactionaries’ announcement of plans to privatize more than half the Los Angeles Unified School District within the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools Tagged With: ALEC, Broad Foundation, charter schools, Eli Broad, Emerson Collective, neoliberalism, Privatization, protest, rdsathene, Reed Hastings, resistance, Walton Family Foundation

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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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