Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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Follow Those Checks Before Checking Off Your Ballot
26 Oct 2014Remember when $1.9 million dollars was spent to (unsuccessfully) unseat school board member Steve Zimmer? Remember when triumphant school board…
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Lower Class Sizes: Access To Teachers Is The Kernel Of Education
20 Oct 2014Batting the distractions away, today is a lovely day to advance a reformed outlook for Los Angeles’ schools. It’s time…
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How Many Sufficient And Complete Reasons Are Required To Fire A Fraud?
13 Oct 2014Finally the LATimes is conceding at long last that John Deasy is Not Really Very Good For Children after all.…
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Why Can’t The LA Times Get It Right On Education?
09 Oct 2014Columnist Steve Lopez of the LATimes suggests that what most ails kids in public education is all the grown-up fighting…
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Same Race, Different Bat Channel
02 Oct 2014Do you have any idea what the State Superintendent of Public Instruction does? I know when I voted for this…
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Private giving and the insolvency of chaos
25 Sep 2014Last week Google announced it was funding all DonorsChoose requests posted for LAUSD classrooms. That’s good news, right? Well…. it’s…
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Triumph Of The Computer Nerd
22 Sep 2014Once upon a time computer nerds were stored in the basement, sometimes in the garage or in a forgotten meeting…
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Surviving Incumbency
18 Sep 2014In her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, Naomi Klein discerns an irresolvable conflict of diametrically opposed…
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Channeling Rosemary Woods: LAUSD Board Votes To Expunge One Year Old Emails
11 Sep 2014After just discovering that top ranking district administrators and private vendors effectively fixed a billion-dollar deal ahead of open bidding,…
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Standardized Tests Are The Tail Of Education: they never could wag this puppy, and they shouldn’t try
08 Sep 2014As a young adult, which was by now many, many moons ago, I was drawn – goaded, really – into…
