Deflecting Trump In LAUSD4
05 Sunday Feb 2017
Written by redqueeninla in Children's health, COLA, Culver City, Education, LAUSD, LAUSD4, Trumpism
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1%, CCSA, charter schools, Deasy, duplicate bridge, Eli Broad, Independent Expenditures, ipads, LAUSD, March 7 2017 LA elections, privatization, public schools, resistance, schools privatization, Vergara
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On March 7, 2017, Los Angeles will play a duplicate round of last November’s presidential election, and we’ll have the opportunity to trump last year’s presidential fiasco.
Since January 20, the billionaires have displayed a dummy hand of hubris, lies and slander. That is, the same hand playing out right now in DC, is being played right here in LA by multi-millionaire, former-mayor Dick Riordan. The choice of the monied-1%, champions a dystopian DeVos-flavored future devoid of truly accountable or equitable public education.
In contrast, our path of Resistance steps neatly across the millions of dollars employed to hobble Steve Zimmer’s policies, that are people-responsive, and people-powered. You vote to resist deep-pocketed, super-wealthy, 1%-politics, when you vote in March for LAUSD School Board District 4’s incumbent, Steve Zimmer.
These are some issues to consider when reviewing the leaflets and immutable forum and conversations littering the landscape:
— A school’s “chartering” agency is tasked with its oversight. That means assuring its policies and operations are truly accountable to the public; that means assuring all the public is served, and not just some of it.
At the same time there is inherent tension between any special interest and its regulators, even not-for-profit Charters.
So what will a school-regulatory system look like when it is governed by electeds who are financed by Charter partisans such as the CA Charter Schools Association and private equity Education-sector investors?
Two of Steve Zimmers’ challengers are beholdened financially to precisely such groups and individuals vested in the special-interests of Charter Schools.
Steve Zimmer is not.
Who will be free of bias to regulate these schools in the best interests of all our public school children?
— A school board is concerned with ideology; its superintendent and staff with operations and realizing policy.
LAUSD’s expensive escapades with technology-driven chicanery were coaxed by LAUSD staff, approved and overseen by its board. It’s an intimate tango to be sure, but the original sin lies among the folly of its architect and engineers, not the signal operators.
The financial underwriters of the creative team choreographing LAUSD ipad ignominy were Eli Broad and his allied billionaires. John Deasy was their impresario, hand-picked to lead LAUSD. And it was the leadership of Mónica Garcia that orchestrated board approval and oversight of Deasy’s debacle; Eli Broad’s billions supported both Deasy and Garcia.
Deasy is long-gone but his operations remain under legal scrutiny. Garcia is displaced as board president yet her role as promoter of Deasy’s technology-agenda is unchallenged and her mantle as Broad’s acolyte uncensored.
Fast-forward to March’s school board election where three candidates benefit directly from Broad and his allies’ wherewithall. Two would tar Zimmer falsely with exclusive blame for the ipads via mailers from Independent Expenditure Committees of the 1%, while the third – Garcia – actually was the scheme’s chief champion. Taxpayer accountability should swamp all three.
— Broad’s wealthy billionaire-class underwrite and motivate a central stalking-horse of “Education ®eform”: to disintegrate that core of the teaching profession, its professional teachers.
As financiers of the defeated Vergara v California, the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of five statues “protecting” classroom teachers, Education-®eforming industry titans seek to circumvent this judgment through elections. By supporting a plaintiff’s witness for LAUSD school board, defendant would be transformed to plaintiff; the LAUSD itself would accuse its very own constituent teachers.
This trojan-horse strategy could affect widespread collateral damage to business-labour relations, tilting advantage toward those billionaires whose special interests are advanced in supporting their candidate’s role-reversal.
Obligated by financial support and legal testimony, such a board member’s fealty would be inherently compromised. These candidates are unqualified, in the paradigm of Rick Perry who would shutter the department he is appointed to run, or Steve Mnuchin who would abolish all populist protections governing his.
Consider how these three issues support the billionaire’s latter-day agenda for a privatized America.
Resisting the will of the 1% means transcribing the will of the 99% onto ballots.
Listen carefully to the underlying agenda of transformative candidates: reconstitution is not necessarily constructive or progressive.
~VOTE FOR STEVE ZIMMER IN LAUSD4; RESIST TRUMPISM~
4 Comments
Franny Parrish said:
February 26, 2017 at 10:01 am
Thank you putting forth this truth. I was there at multiple meetings where I watched as Jaime Aquino and Matt Hill flat out lied to the board. The manipulation of the bond money to coincide with the iPad agenda was disgusting. Garcia’s cheer leading when she said if no one else was going to go for the iPads she wanted ALL of them for the poor children in her district, was disgusting. Even more repugnant and hypocritical is the mailers that keep coming blaming Zimmer for the iPad debacle, are from the exact same parents who were championing it and Deasy. “Alternative facts” indeed. Alternate realities…..is this the twilight zone? Thanks for the well written article.
redqueeninla said:
February 28, 2017 at 3:33 am
lol thanks! I was there too for some of this. The “$5 Is A Lot Of Money” yowl-fest and bald-faced lies about infrastructure needs and educational realities. It was so so so so frustrating. It was surreal watching that whole board (Zimmer included at first) swallowing that koolaid which was so obviously being force-fed. Sigh.
Still that was then and now is now … ¡Adelante! …. and what is now is, as you say, this completely amazing twisting of reality to actually claim that all of this was Zimmer’s fault?! I don’t know how he keeps a tough-enough skin for this. It’s like a sibling grabbing your arm and saying “stop hitting yourself” while they’re thwapping you. What can you do?! It’s so impossible….
June Pagan said:
February 7, 2017 at 7:53 am
Dear Sara, I remember meeting you at Venice High School. I love this article and will share it with your permission. It really puts the truth out there. Very refreshing!
Thank you!
June
redqueeninla said:
February 16, 2017 at 6:05 am
Thank you!