Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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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…
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The People’s Choice Is McKenna …. for the fourth time
14 Aug 2014LA Wins the Most Shocking Apathy Voter Award all over again. And despite ever-diminishing numbers of voters manages to leverage…
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YOUR VOTE MATTERS ON TUESDAY: Just Say No To Carpetbagging In LAUSD1
11 Aug 2014We’ve endured another nail-biter of a weekend suffused with an oxymoronic army of paid “volunteers” deployed to Get Out their…
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Irresponsible Is As Irresponsible Does
07 Aug 2014John Deasy claims an authority in adjudicating “responsibility” that seems a little premature. With what is itself “breathtaking” hubris, he…
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LAUSD’s New Budget Unveils The “Sophie’s Choice” of Education Reform: How School Choice Is Pushed
04 Aug 2014When we grew our school system from one conducted by itinerant, very young generalists to that of a modern, publicly…
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The Gulen Archipelago
28 Jul 2014The largest chain of Charter Schools in this country is run from the Poconos by a reclusive, self-exiled Turk named…
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The Difference Between Johnson and McKenna
24 Jul 2014Did you know there’s an election in three weeks? If you do not live in LAUSD’s first district, you might…
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Hubris Of The Hoch-Tech
21 Jul 2014What is it with high tech entrepreneurs and the hubris of their bastardized version of noblesse oblige? First came Bill…
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People to Politicians: Address The Needy
14 Jul 2014As a child I wondered of my elders ‘where were you’ during WWII? Why had you not “done something”? And…
