Don’t Confuse Children’s Needs With Adults’ Politics
The buzz about town is that UTLA might strike and I have been asked at least a dozen times what I think about it. I think these teachers should have struck (“striked”?) years ago. Years and years and...
View ArticleUnconscionable Campaigning Betrays Agenda Of Profit, Not Public Schooling
LAUSD School board member Steve Zimmer has written an electric manifesto excoriating the tormentors of Bennett Kayser. His piece links to outrageous, immoral claims slung both verbally and visually....
View ArticleUnderstaffing LAUSD Is Behavioral Entrapment
Unless you’re living in a bubble of media-exclusion, you have heard and seen video by now regarding the arrest of a small coterie of adolescent males, removed from school this past Friday before their...
View ArticleLA’s Too Crowded To Permit Right-On-Red Turns
With the stroke of a pen, I have a suggestion that will improve the quality of life for everyone trying to move about in Los Angeles. As in New York City and everywhere on the Isle de Montréal, we in...
View ArticleRaising Pitchforks Against Our Own Best Interest
The 405 interstate scissors down Los Angeles’ westside, demarcating an archipelago of geopolitically distinct communities that all share one singular, contiguous malady: traffic. Transportation and...
View ArticleKing: the right jewel for LAUSD’s crown
Wednesday morning dawned a superlative sunrise here in LA ~ roseate clouds fronting exhilaratingly blue sky, a morning-after display suffused with color worthy of our news. Not Obama’s Tuesday night...
View ArticleHeckuva Directive, DONE
On 2/1/16 the Los Angeles Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE) sent to all certified Neighborhood Councils (NCs) the following “Funding Update“: Please note that Neighborhood Council boards...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong With Charter Schools?
They foster segregation. Charter schools are in fact the new face of segregation, the enabling excuse for exclusivity and alienation. The Charter School movement glorifies the illusion of “choice” even...
View ArticleTests And Children: Accessories To Education
Once upon a time a “test” assessed a student’s comprehension of a subject, or perhaps a student’s relative degree of comprehension compared with his classmate’s; even occasionally a teacher’s...
View ArticleThat Shuffling Noise: As Attorneys Reposition A Precipitous Ruling
Recently the alarm was raised about an LA Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE) directive that would disempower any Neighborhood Council (NC) from funding any Neighborhood Purpose Grant (NPG)...
View ArticleWhen School Preempts Summertime: An Open Letter To LAUSD Board President...
I’m agin’ it. Really, really against it. I oppose force-marching our school-aged children back inside any Institution Of Learning during their traditional months of summer-break. Our kids deserve a...
View ArticleCity Charter High School Has Locked Its Doors And Stranded Its Pupils
Why? Why Is This A Thing? Why is the public afforded no right to follow its public monies behind the privacy hedge of unaccountable Charter Schools? What’s it feel like to wake up one morning and...
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I Walk For Many
There is street poetry* everywhere; angry and articulate, rude and respectful: “Respect existence or Expect resistance”, “Dear Climate: We’re sorry”, “Say it loud, say it clear: Immigrants are welcome...
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Drive Like Your Kids Live Here
On the mourning [sic] after I was brought up short by this common lawn sign ~ It seemed to me then that few really comprehended the tragedy our children were experiencing. Parents got it, at least the...
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This Is What The Resistance Looks Like: Steve Zimmer in LAUSD4
Trump’s been working overtime to enroll anti-cabinet members, a sort of Through-The-Looking-Glass collection of zombie-apocalypse advisors whose prerequisite qualification seems to be whatever their...
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Going To Notrump: The Meaning Of Resistance
Let me explain why a vote for Steve Zimmer in the LAUSD fourth board district, is like bringing to life an avatar for RESISTANCE. Apply to the County Registrar before the close of February for your...
View ArticleDeflecting Trump In LAUSD4
On March 7, 2017, Los Angeles will play a duplicate round of last November’s presidential election, and we’ll have the opportunity to trump last year’s presidential fiasco. Since January 20, the...
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Getting What You Pay For
Is it true there are LAUSD board candidates “supported by” Betsy DeVos? Recently this very central, very arresting question was posted to a neighborhood social media website, highlighting the core...
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Give Like A Billionaire – Protecting The Power Of Their Purse: How...
Cute videos have peppered the website of Steve Zimmer’s opponents claiming to be shocked at the suggestion that big money is sloshing about the LAUSD4 school board race. ‘We’re just aw-shucks folks in...
View Article“Can’t We All Just Get Along”?
A plaintive parent declares that with “one kid in a regular public district school and another in a charter school”, we should all just “get along”. Here’s the formula for getting along: (1) You have...
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