Archive for the ‘LAUSD’ Category
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Outflanking CTA From The Left: How Anti-Racist Demands Are Captured By Privateers
21 Jul 2020The death of George Floyd in custody of the Minneapolis City Police has roiled our nation. There can be no…
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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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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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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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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…
