Archive for the ‘LAUSD’ Category
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This Is What The Resistance Looks Like: Steve Zimmer in LAUSD4
26 Jan 2017Trump’s been working overtime to enroll anti-cabinet members, a sort of Through-The-Looking-Glass collection of zombie-apocalypse advisors whose prerequisite qualification seems…
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City Charter High School Has Locked Its Doors And Stranded Its Pupils
15 Sep 2016Why? Why Is This A Thing? Why is the public afforded no right to follow its public monies behind the…
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That Shuffling Noise: As Attorneys Reposition A Precipitous Ruling
15 Mar 2016Recently the alarm was raised about an LA Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE) directive that would disempower any Neighborhood Council…
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What’s Wrong With Charter Schools?
08 Mar 2016They foster segregation. Charter schools are in fact the new face of segregation, the enabling excuse for exclusivity and alienation.…
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Heckuva Directive, DONE
17 Feb 2016On 2/1/16 the Los Angeles Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE) sent to all certified Neighborhood Councils (NCs) the following “Funding…
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King: the right jewel for LAUSD’s crown
13 Jan 2016Wednesday morning dawned a superlative sunrise here in LA ~ roseate clouds fronting exhilaratingly blue sky, a morning-after display suffused…
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Unconscionable Campaigning Betrays Agenda Of Profit, Not Public Schooling
02 Mar 2015LAUSD School board member Steve Zimmer has written an electric manifesto excoriating the tormentors of Bennett Kayser. His piece links…
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Restoring The SUPER In Tendent
04 Sep 2014When my home town built a new school in the early ’70’s, a whole era vanished in concert with the…
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Pass The Popcorn: LA’s Education Establishment Explodes
25 Aug 2014The education news exploding through the tubes via KPCC and the LATimes since last Thursday is absolutely staggering. There is…
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Who’s In Charge Of The Calendar?
21 Aug 2014Starting school in the middle of summer is simply misguided. It’s not just that it implies we perhaps “don’t like…
