Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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Yup, Police PACS Give A Lot Of Money
09 Jun 2020There’s been some shock about LA City Council members receipt of monies from the LA Police Protective League. But they…
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The LAUSD Budget Under Covid: An “Economy of Care” or of Institutional Protection?
08 Jun 2020Now we have seen manifest the power of budgets. In the wake of the profoundly inequitable calamity of Covid19, has…
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Portfolio Management At LAUSD: Private Security, Promotional Hats, Outsourced Instruction, No-Bid HighTech Contracts
30 May 2020In mid-May, 2020 the LAUSD board reviewed the Deputy Superintendent’s weekly lists of purchases and contracts for March 16-May 8,…
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Houston, We Have A Problem: Digital Liftoff Without Direction
19 May 2020In his March 11, 2020 weekly address, LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner misleadingly refers to the emergency effort transiently supporting disrupted…
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The Price Of Pandemic Opportunities – Laptops, Public Policy And Science Awareness
02 Apr 2020All this isolating and cowering in the shadow of a revolution of computerized learning shouldn’t remove us from the exhilaration…
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Immediate And Peripheral Vigilance: LAUSD’s Schoolboard Election … Then Covid19
23 Mar 2020A running section appears in the sidebar to the right with information and links about SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19. All articles for the…
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And Yet, There Are Collateral Benefits
16 Mar 2020It’s not what you’d wish on your worst enemy, but all the same, there are bright spots amidst the coronavirus…
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Protect The Tax-Payer’s Revolution
06 Mar 2020Here in L.A., we’ve just finished weighing in on two ballot questions regarding schools funding. Really engaged activists and politicians…
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Time To Vote
03 Mar 2020SuperCaliforniaisticexpialiTuesday is here; it’s finally here. Please don’t embarrass your country or family and fail to turn out. It seems…
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Bloomfield Devotes $3.7m Education Dollars Toward Elections, Not Schools
29 Feb 2020It’s been a week since last peek at the LAUSD board election spending. The rate of spending has slowed down…