tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13850388.post2666479165406029616..comments2023-09-05T07:08:28.140-07:00Comments on solidaridad: Open Letter to UOPX's Dr. Wilen-Daugenti regarding her Q&A with Steve BarrRobert D. Skeels * rdsathenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920561332154131328noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13850388.post-10681888248584788122010-05-10T00:19:03.876-07:002010-05-10T00:19:03.876-07:00While those in favor of charters and those against...While those in favor of charters and those against malign each other Ramon Cortines continues his 50 year career in dismantling public education at LAUSD (twice), San Franciso, Pasadena, NYC, and San Jose with no consequences. I have recently started to question whether or not he even knows what is going on or whether he is hostage to an LAUSD bureaucracy that will sacrifice teachers and students to maintain their own privileges. Steve Barr like the teachers are not responsible for failed public education in L.A., they are just a symptom that will disappear with the LAUSD infection is finally no longer allowed to fester without question. Charters only exist because districts like LAUSD continue not to do their job with impunity. Why does every "educational reform" leave LAUSD and corrupt public school districts like it throughout this country intact no matter how incompetent or fraudulent they are? At www.perdaily.com we will not rest until a system of independent checks and balances are put in place within public education. If you read Diane Ravitch's book or that of Charles Kerchner, entities like LAUSD have been incompetent for over 50 years with no consequences. Ironically, they came into existence at the beginning of the 20th century to deal with the corruption of small charter-like schools that existed in NYC (1905) and in L.A. (1903). People who do not know their history are doomed to live it again. lenny@perdaily.comLeonard Isenberghttp://www.perdaily.comnoreply@blogger.com