Posts Tagged with ‘privatization’
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The People’s Choice Is McKenna …. for the fourth time
14 Aug 2014LA Wins the Most Shocking Apathy Voter Award all over again. And despite ever-diminishing numbers of voters manages to leverage…
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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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Hubris Of The Hoch-Tech
21 Jul 2014What is it with high tech entrepreneurs and the hubris of their bastardized version of noblesse oblige? First came Bill…
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School’s Out … Now What??
30 Jun 2014There seems to be some rather large unfinished business on the newly-approved seven-billion-dollar-budget-strong LAUSD table. Namely, the approximately one-billion dollar…
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An Aha! Moment: Charters == Vouchers
05 Aug 2013“Charter Schools” is an emotional term that invokes a sort of shimmering gateway of hope. It sends a siren’s signal…
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Are charter schools public schools?
01 Aug 2013It depends on what you mean by “public”. The term doesn’t seem to have a well-nailed-down meaning. As befits an…
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“There they go again”
29 Jul 2013Remember Reagan’s air traffic controllers? The ones he fired? And the privatizing of our public air waves? And the deregulation…
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Talk is pretty darned cheap
03 Jul 2013… yet money talks and without it, you’re just mute. Or moot? Voiceless, ignored. Manipulable. Education policy has been in…
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Class Size Still Matters – for goose and gander alike
27 Jun 2013How is it a “fact” that “across the board re-staffing, which is what Zimmer, et al. have proposed [at the…
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Venice High School: a microcosm of national Education Reform politics
01 Jun 2013Venice High School (VHS) has been on our beach radar since early spring when a “pilot” school was discovered slated…
