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Who Wants To Stop Fixing The Roads?

Proposition 6 is an initiative to Repeal The Gas Tax. There is a lot of heated discussion surrounding it, but little of the conversation moves forward rationally. The matter would appear to be a...

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¿¿ What Are YOU Resisting ??

I’m resisting the attack on our public school system.  And we need to defend it now, right now, or else it will be gone. ¿¿When Are You Gonna Do It ?? Now. THE MOMENT IS NOW, THIS SATURDAY.  Really:...

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It’s the Class Size, Stupid

That’s what it is.  That’s all it is.  LAUSD “management” (Beaudry Big Wigs, Superintendent, Board Members) may talk all they want about negotiations and good-faith bargaining, what it means to cross...

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Once Again With Feeling: Is LAUSD _Really_ Going Bust?

This essay was first published April 3, 2017. It concerns persistent LAUSD budgeting chicanery, and the narrative extended to surround it. Nothing has changed; not the past numbers or their variance...

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The Collective Of Strike Perspectives

Hollywood paints a rather simple picture of strikes.  There are good guys and bad guys. Workers and non-workers. But the imminent teacher’s strike here in LA is complicated. For one thing, it’s a...

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Austin Beutner’s No Superintendent; He’s An Agent Of Austerity And Deception

For a financial whiz-kid, Austin Beutner seems strangely uncomprehending of numbers and inordinately fond of trumped-up figures. Monday morning last he floated the patently absurd hypothesis that...

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Thoughts From A “Retired” LAUSD Parent

The fallout of emptying one’s nest is not quite as expected.  How long it takes to accumulate dishes enough to justify running the dishwasher; how different is the consumption-spectrum of groceries;...

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What’s A Moratorium?

It’s a “TEMPORARY prohibition of an activity”, according to Webster’s. It’s not a ban, it’s not as its root sounds, to kill or die.  The root relates, in fact, to “delay”. And it’s a word we none of...

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What Do We Want?

Jackie Goldberg When Do We Want Her? When The Vote-By-Mail ballots drop next week.  Or At-The-Polls on March 5, 2019 Marches aren’t particularly reasoned or reasoning affairs. There’s a lot of...

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Who’s Giving In LAUSD5

There’s a school board race on; VBM ballots are out and LAUSD’s Board District 5 votes at the polls March 5, 2019.  This time the “out-of-state billionaires” are “sitting this one out”. And it’s true,...

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Sowing Bloomfields’ Millions

There are a lot of Big Personalities here in the land of Studio Art and artiface. The parsimonious Eli Broad, with his “pushy” impact philanthropy may have captured the most frontispieces, but there...

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The Money In LAUSD5’s Mouth

From Los Feliz to Southgate, voters need to show up on Tuesday to fill LAUSD’s swing school board seat with Jackie Goldberg. The fifth LAUSD Board District is wedged in the middle between educators...

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The Math Of Finite Resources And Fixed Margins

In a moral society, “Single Payer” is the singular, optimal solution. Steve Lopez says:  “…There’s a place for both [innovative, popular charters and regular district schools], and a need for greater...

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The True Cost Of This Election In LAUSD5

The $100K PAC-drop of Eli Broad was heard around LA this week, but it’s not the first or even tenth time this sort of thing has gone on.  It’s basically just SOP to use money as a political bludgeon,...

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What We Lose By Commodifying Education

I’m frustrated by the howls of shocked people across this country following Tuesday’s College Admissions scandal. There are so many layers of context, missed, when we focus merely on privilege and its...

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Charter Infiltration Ends With Social Filtration

It’s time to collect some straight-forward demographics on charter schools. How many are aware of just how pervasive they are in the District, and how pernicious in co-locations? A District official...

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Charter Chains Pay Out Salaries Like… Corporations, Even While Enrollment Erodes

Education Privatizers have made a private market out of the public sector. In tax year 2016, the top-10 salaries from among LAUSD’s 37 Charter Management Organizations/Groups (CMO/Gs) totaled $3.4...

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Repenning Is The Charter Candidate in LAUSD’s Runoff For Board District 5

Jackie Goldberg is on record, with great, deep, theoretical and experiential evidence, for not being “against charters”. Do listen to her nuanced and knowledgeable explanation here. Given the...

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The California Charter Schools Lobby Masks Influence And Effect Through...

The Charter industry lobby has expended a total of $91.4 million dollars in California between 11/18/08 and 12/31/18, according to political financial information stored online by the Secretary of...

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Measure EE Works Like The Corporate Program To “Match Gifts”

On June 4, 2019 at the polls, we’ll approve fairly funded Public Education for all by voting YES ON EE. It’s a gift to democracy from the body politic. See here....

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