Archive for the ‘LAUSD’ Category
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Where’s The Outrage?
01 Jan 2014In this season given over to wrapping-up the designated twelve-month unit’s worth of happenings, Education may be mentioned nominally as…
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The Crocodiles Are Circling…
12 Dec 2013This past week saw the death of sitting LAUSD board member Marguerite LaMotte. She was an icon of her predominantly…
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What’s Politics Got To Do With It?
09 Dec 2013What’s “politics” mean to you, for that matter? Because it is evidently another of these words for which there are…
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Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte — Thank you…
06 Dec 2013This remembrance first appeared at CityWatchLA.com on 12/5/13 One of the most admirable, staunch old grandma-supporters of public school children…
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Scarecrows Countering Common Core
27 Nov 2013We seem to be caught up in a national hysteria that confuses association with cause. Everywhere there is talk of…
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When Title I Betrays The Entitled
17 Nov 2013This just has to be said and it’s not pretty. Why on earth does LAUSD refuse to fund schools of…
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Shifting The Mission Of Public Education
04 Nov 2013I love performance art. Long ago I had the kick-ass opportunity of participating in a gigantic event, pre-cell-phone-era, with hundreds…
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Deflecting Criticism: When Bad Behavior Trumps Incompetence And Insubordination.
28 Oct 2013Being a parent means witnessing a lot of prima donnish, irascible and irrational behavior. So by virtue of my alter-profession…
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Follow Aquino’s Yellow Brick Road…
16 Sep 2013Last Friday — the 13th, no less — yielded some surprisingly providential news as Superintendent Deasy’s top deputy, Jaime Aquino,…
