Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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Bloomberg’s Autocracy In Flower: What His Political Spending Tells Us About His Candidacy
27 Feb 2020With billionaires circling the wagons on the debate stage and encircling our sensibilities in local municipal school board elections, it…
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What Even One Day Bears: Charters Scrimmage For Majority Control Of The LAUSD Board
24 Feb 2020In reports downloaded from LA City Ethics Commission records posted between 2/20/20 and 2/21/20 – just 24 hours – the…
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Charter School Advocates Spending Big in LAUSD Board Elections
20 Feb 2020The California Charter School Association (CCSA) is the largest and most visible pro-charter organization in Los Angeles’ political scene. CCSA…
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¡Prop 13 Is Not About Property Tax! (But It Is About Funding Schools)
19 Feb 2020In 1978 Californians voted to limit their personal tax liability. The ballot initiative approved at that time was titled and…
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Prodigious Funding Drives Distorted Accusations in LAUSD3
14 Feb 2020Scurrilous flyers have been peppering LAUSD board member Scott Schmerelson’s 3rd District. As former teacher, counselor and principal, the incumbent…
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Schools Reach Beyond The Classroom
12 Feb 2020On the eve of launching LA’s new Education Examiner, I attended a Los Angeles Public Library “ALOUD” discussion stimulated by…
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Big Political Interests Control LAUSD’s Southern Ports District 7 (Election News, March 3, 2020)
13 Jan 2020Big political interests are big: Yep, we all know this, but until a tiny little just-me person comes up against…
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Why Is “Growth Data” Risky?
03 Nov 2019Because it is a model that predicts the future. It is not a metric, it is not direct data or…
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Charter Apologists Make Trumpian Claim Regarding “Hidden” Data Not Part Of CA’s School Dashboard
01 Nov 2019The astroturf groups ParentRevolution and SpeakUp are flooding social media of late with their PR-honed contention that opposing LAUSD charter-advocacy-backed…
