Posts Tagged with ‘LAUSD budget’
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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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Once Again With Feeling: Is LAUSD _Really_ Going Bust?
07 Jan 2019This essay was first published April 3, 2017. It concerns persistent LAUSD budgeting chicanery, and the narrative extended to surround…
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Is LAUSD _Really_ Going Bust?
03 Apr 2017Not at the moment. Have a look at this table: All of the recent years for which final (“actual”)…
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LAUSD’s New Budget Unveils The “Sophie’s Choice” of Education Reform: How School Choice Is Pushed
04 Aug 2014When we grew our school system from one conducted by itinerant, very young generalists to that of a modern, publicly…
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People to Politicians: Address The Needy
14 Jul 2014As a child I wondered of my elders ‘where were you’ during WWII? Why had you not “done something”? And…
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Enacting Economic Equity
07 Nov 2013It’s the avowed 800 pound gorilla in the room: poverty just mucks up everyone’s numbers. Kids don’t “achieve learning”, schools…
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Watch Those Numbers Carefully
11 Jul 2013Just exactly how do we know a school is “failing”? Since there is no consensus as to what “education” even…
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It’s Just Good Business
05 Jun 2013Business is all about receiving a fifty-dollar return on a two-dollar investment. Beyond admiring such payback, our modern capitalist democracy…
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Waiting For Proposition 30 (and its funds)
03 Jun 2013Remember the fierce euphoria upon passing proposition 30? It promised to break the educational economic drought and channel money back…
