Posts Tagged with ‘LAUSD school board’
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Collateral Damage From Nonprofits: Privatizing Education
28 May 2022One candidate for LA Unified’s District 2 board seat (LAUSD2) is fond of asserting she is not “for charter schools”…
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LAUSD By Its Charter School Numbers
22 Apr 2022All charter schools are considered their own Local Education Agency (LEA). In the Los Angeles area, some are managed fiscally…
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Big money for pro-charter school board candidates, picks George Gascón for DA
29 Oct 2020Los Angeles’ school district used to have sleepy school board races. But those low budget, pedestrian races – like that…
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Think your vote doesn’t matter? Uneven early voting across LAUSD Districts means it may count more than ever.
20 Oct 2020Are you wondering whether the vote is effectively all over. Whether so many early ballots have been returned there’s, say,…
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“When you find hypocrisy in the daylight, look for power in the shadows”
16 Oct 2020-Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, 10/13/20 Senator Whitehouse laid out beautifully on Tuesday the context surrounding Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings in…
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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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The LAUSD Budget Under Covid: An “Economy of Care” or of Institutional Protection?
08 Jun 2020Now we have seen manifest the power of budgets. In the wake of the profoundly inequitable calamity of Covid19, has…
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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…
