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  • Collateral Damage From Nonprofits:  Privatizing Education

    28 May 2022

    One candidate for LA Unified’s District 2 board seat (LAUSD2) is fond of asserting she is not “for charter schools”…

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  • Only way to go: Single-payer healthcare gave me back my life

    29 Mar 2021

    I have personal experience with single-payer health care, directly contrasting treatment for the same medical diagnosis under the U.S. for-profit…

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  • Election recommendations, replete with equestrian allusions galore

    10 Oct 2020

    October 4, 2020 Dear Peeps: I’m urging you to vote like your life depends on it. As America’s president struggles…

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  • Yelp! … But For Schools?!

    27 Sep 2019

    Is it a good idea to label schools with a really simple star-rating?  Can we do for Education and schools…

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  • The California Charter Schools Lobby Masks Influence And Effect Through Myriad “Independent Expenditure Committees”, As Difficult To Follow As A Shell Game

    28 Apr 2019

    The Charter industry lobby has expended a total of $91.4 million dollars in California between 11/18/08 and 12/31/18, according to…

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  • Following The Money That Interests Big Housing

    20 Oct 2018

    California’s propositions are so confusing and tricky that it’s not worth wasting time on the convolution that is each initiative’s…

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  • The Money-Machine For Marshall Tuck And Antonio Villaraigosa Is Terrible To Behold

    29 May 2018

    Over $13 million has gone into Antonio Villaraigosa’s campaign coffers since 2013, from just five families: Broad (KB Homes, AIG…

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  • Is LAUSD _Really_ Going Bust?

    03 Apr 2017

    Not at the moment. Have a look at this table:   All of the recent years for which final (“actual”)…

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  • Give Like A Billionaire – Protecting The Power Of Their Purse: How Billionaires Obscure Contributions And Command Influence

    28 Feb 2017

    Cute videos have peppered the website of Steve Zimmer’s opponents claiming to be shocked at the suggestion that big money…

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  • Drive Like Your Kids Live Here

    04 Dec 2016

    On the mourning [sic] after I was brought up short by this common lawn sign ~ It seemed to me…

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