Archive for the ‘LAUSD’ Category
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Prodigious Funding Drives Distorted Accusations in LAUSD3
14 Feb 2020Scurrilous flyers have been peppering LAUSD board member Scott Schmerelson’s 3rd District. As former teacher, counselor and principal, the incumbent…
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Schools Reach Beyond The Classroom
12 Feb 2020On the eve of launching LA’s new Education Examiner, I attended a Los Angeles Public Library “ALOUD” discussion stimulated by…
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Why Is “Growth Data” Risky?
03 Nov 2019Because it is a model that predicts the future. It is not a metric, it is not direct data or…
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Charter Apologists Make Trumpian Claim Regarding “Hidden” Data Not Part Of CA’s School Dashboard
01 Nov 2019The astroturf groups ParentRevolution and SpeakUp are flooding social media of late with their PR-honed contention that opposing LAUSD charter-advocacy-backed…
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Yelp! … But For Schools?!
27 Sep 2019Is it a good idea to label schools with a really simple star-rating? Can we do for Education and schools…
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Hostile Takeover 2.0
03 Jul 2019Charter schools in California band together as an embattled group, agitating for hostile takeover of the Public Commons. They serially…
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How Pennies Trickling Down To School Sites Get Amplified
24 Jun 2019Among the misconceptions that persist in the wake of Proposition 13’s ruinous toll on our public school system, is the…
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LAUSD By Some Numbers
03 Jun 2019The largest school district in America with an elected school board, LAUSD (the “District”) is vast indeed. It is hard…
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