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Los Angeles privatization pushers take second biggest slice of reactionary...
“[T]here should be no education marketplace.” — Dr. Diane Ravitch (celebrated education professor and author) The indefatigable Valerie Strauss posted an excellent piece yesterday discussing where and...
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A Mother’s message to LAUSD Trustee Nury Martinez
First published on EchoParkPatch “If there’s one thing I hope comes out of this is that Ms. Martinez thinks about the incident and reflects upon how she and the other board members ignored our...
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LAUSD Creates Calamity for Crescendo Corporate Charters
“I knew I needed to be an example to my scholars.” — Lisa Sims (Crescendo Teacher) Many people are familiar with the sordid tale of Crescendo Charter Schools in Los Angeles. But for those that haven’t...
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A match made in privatization purgatory? Capricious Young and A.J. Duffy!
“Improving education is not the goal. Privatization is the goal… Private interests are just that – private.” — Bruce A. Dixon (Managing Editor, “Black Agenda Report”) I recently posted a short essay on...
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When Capricious Young says no experience required, she requires no experience
“We are told that this ‘reform’ alliance of everyone from Rupert Murdoch to the Walton family to leading hedge funders spends huge amounts of money pushing for radical changes to public schools because...
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Guest Post: Silver Lake parents unite in the face of charter school "colocation"
Parent Lulu Wilson wrote this essay — which she originally intended to be a press release — on behalf of many Micheltorena ES families and community members, several of whom are quoted extensively in...
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Backed into a corner by a monster it helped create, LAUSD fights back against...
Although the bungalows are used for after school programs, art classes, festivals and special education speech therapy space, according to the number of enrolled students at Micheltorena, the bungalows...
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Comments on Fordham’s Adam Emerson’s latest pro-CCSA screed
The driving assumption for the pro-charter side, of course, is that market competition in education will be like that for toothpaste — providing an array of appealing options. But education, like...
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