Archive for the ‘Education’ 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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Drive Like Your Kids Live Here
04 Dec 2016On the mourning [sic] after I was brought up short by this common lawn sign ~ It seemed to me…
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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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When School Preempts Summertime: An Open Letter To LAUSD Board President Zimmer (LAUSD4)
19 Aug 2016I’m agin’ it. Really, really against it. I oppose force-marching our school-aged children back inside any Institution Of Learning during…
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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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Tests And Children: Accessories To Education
14 Mar 2016Once upon a time a “test” assessed a student’s comprehension of a subject, or perhaps a student’s relative degree of…
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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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Raising Pitchforks Against Our Own Best Interest
14 May 2015The 405 interstate scissors down Los Angeles’ westside, demarcating an archipelago of geopolitically distinct communities that all share one singular,…
