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Is LAUSD _Really_ Going Bust?
Not at the moment. Have a look at this table: All of the recent years for which final (“actual”) budget data are published show every single annual budget has finished in the black. This graph tracks...
View ArticleIn Re: LAUSD’s Solvency ~ “Who Can Even Read That?”
Well…. the previous post is not actually all that long or complicated. It’s just boring. Reading about finances is boring. So, it seems the story about LAUSD’s finances and how they’ve been competently...
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About That School Board Race…
An Open Letter To My Neighbors: Dearest neighbors: So many friends scold me: “Spare us all those words; get to the point already: What’s Zimmer Done For Us, And What Will Happen If The Other Guy Wins”?...
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Re-segregation: Unfolding In Real-Time, Reversible With Resistance
Never, ever would I have grasped in advance of my kids’ high schooling, that just rubbing elbows with the ‘Other’ would not indulge an important secondary Education benefit, but is rather an intrinsic...
View ArticleI’m The Rubber And You’re The Glue
…why do we let Nick Melvoin’s words bounce off him and stick to LAUSD’s world? Negative Ads Undermine Democracy Mostly, the fourth board district school board race has been one of incessant negativity...
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Nick Melvoin’s School Board Candidacy Is Controlled By Wealthy, “Special”...
When parents pretend astroturf is genuine It’s amazing to see the talking points issuing from 4th LAUSD board district (LAUSD4) candidate Nick Melvoin’s boosters coming from multiple directions, in...
View ArticleCount The Money! (Think Of The Kids)
Here’s today’s tally of the LAUSD district four school board race Direct Contributions To Candidates MELVOIN ZIMMER FAVOR TO $788,549...
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LAUSD Did Not Lower Graduation Requirements
Really. It’s true. You may have heard differently, but if so, what you’ve heard is not correct. Here’s what LAUSD did do: they voted not to let a raise in graduation requirements take effect, so the...
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What If We Held An Election And Nobody Came?
Shame on you Los Angeles The international movement admiring “strongmen” leaders which sanctions rhetorical, and sometimes even physical violence, has seen its latest expression in Los Angeles’ battle...
View ArticleNick Melvoin Takes Up A Seat On The Board Of An Entity He Considers “Abstract”
It never was very clear why someone who attended private primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools, and then attended law school on a scholarship intended for the disadvantaged – it never made a...
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Examining The CCSA Juggernaut: Who Bought Nick Melvoin?
The following graph shows relative voter turnout at the polls (“At-poll”) and via mail (“VBM” == Vote By Mail). Please refer back and forth to it while reading slowly through the text. It’s not always...
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Diversity Is A Good Thing
But what is it? Like pornography, it seems to be something folks “know” when they see, but aren’t very comfortable defining. For one thing, there’s the question of what kind of diversity we’re talking...
View ArticleAvoidance Matters
“…I’m not the angry racist they see in that photo… .” But if not you then who? Because someone is. Someone has been weighing in to ranks swelling with violence, bursting with hatred. A large bunch of...
View ArticleIt’s Charter School Co-location Season
Every single year since Proposition 39 was passed, facilitating infrastructure spending at schools by lowering the supermajority vote requirement for funding measures to 55% – ever since that passed in...
View ArticleAccused Felon Ref Rodriguez Clings To LAUSD’s School Board
Refugio Rodriguez continues to “represent” the stakeholders of LAUSD Zone 5… six months after allegations of felony charges for perjury and conspiracy. He was also charged with 25 mysterious...
View ArticleCalifornia May Be Blue But I’m Seeing Red: LAUSD Is Preventing Its Kids From...
I am ashamed of My LAUSD. I just heard on KPCC that LAUSD is “asking its students not to walk out on Wednesday”. Ashamed and disgusted. LAUSD is further asking its parents to encourage its kids not to...
View ArticleRef Rodriguez Surfs A Wave Of Court Continuances That Deliver His...
Ref Rodriguez appears in court today to delay answering for felony charges related to campaign money laundering. He has complicated legal problems that collectively beg the question of why a gentleman...
View ArticleThe Money-Machine For Marshall Tuck And Antonio Villaraigosa Is Terrible To...
Over $13 million has gone into Antonio Villaraigosa’s campaign coffers since 2013, from just five families: Broad (KB Homes, AIG “too big to fail” insurance), Hastings (Netflicks), Riordan (Republican...
View ArticleGood Governance Is LAUSD’s Lifeline
Perhaps you’ve heard that Jackie Goldberg is being considered for appointment to Ref Rodriguez’ vacant District 5 School board seat? The deal is, she won’t run for either a special election or the...
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Following The Money That Interests Big Housing
California’s propositions are so confusing and tricky that it’s not worth wasting time on the convolution that is each initiative’s Title. The label is a distraction from figuring out the measure’s...
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