Code Words and Green Dot’s Pandering to Westside Racism
There’s nothing the matter with teachers that a little less unionization and more COMPETITION couldn’t cure. — Ann Coulter (racist reactionary right wing pundit) It would force the district to learn...
View ArticleRacist Anti-Immigrant Speech from California Charter School Association
California Charter School Association Co-Founder and long time board member Steve Poizner is running for Governor. He spoke at the reactionary right wing Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)...
View ArticleCCSA and Market Share: Setting the Table for Vouchers
“Soviet style elections” — Ben Austin in response to parents and communities choosing community school plans over corporate charters. You’d think that the overarching goal of the California Charter...
View ArticleRight-wing Reactionary “Guggenheim on Unions, Green Dot”
Just continue to follow the money. This Race to the Trough will make the Reading First crooks under Bush look like dopey Boy Scouts. — Jim Horn, PhD (Educator, Writer) EdWize has a short blurb on the...
View ArticleCrafty Camino Nuevo Charter Charlatans
Over the weekend USPS delivered an expensive looking, glossy, four color marketing brochure from Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (CNCA) chock full of misstatements, spurious data, and outright lies. CNCA...
View ArticleOn Anschutz, Villaraigosa, LAUSD Privatization Candidates, and Riding Dinosaurs
[A] Bizarro World, where the richest and most powerful people in the U.S. are cast as a plucky band of selfless rebels fighting for the civil rights of poor children of color, while dedicated and...
View ArticleCharter Voucher Charlatans Now Advocating AIG Style Derivatives
The education industry represents, in our opinion, the final frontier of a number of sectors once under public control… represents the largest market opportunity… the K-12 market is the Big Enchilada....
View ArticleDemocrats for Neoliberal Education Reform
Like special interests, our constituents deserve some consideration also. — Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte (Los Angeles Unified School District Board — LAUSD). At least someone was thinking of parents...
View ArticleLying to Mother Jones
The Compton experience and others across the country reflect parents’ real frustrations with their schools. However, the four trigger choices don’t address much of what upsets parents most—lack of...
View ArticleThe Struggle to Save Adult Education in Los Angeles
Using State of California budget shortfalls as an excuse, Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Superintendent John Deasy presented the LAUSD Board of Education (BOE) with a draconian budget...
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