Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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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,…
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Understaffing LAUSD Is Behavioral Entrapment
15 Mar 2015Unless you’re living in a bubble of media-exclusion, you have heard and seen video by now regarding the arrest of…
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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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Don’t Confuse Children’s Needs With Adults’ Politics
11 Feb 2015The buzz about town is that UTLA might strike and I have been asked at least a dozen times what…
