Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Ánimo Watts II

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Non-educators Broad, Barr, Petruzi and Austin know all about failing schools: Animo Watts #2 Charter High Academic Performance Index (API) ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Corporations 1, Communities 0, six members cave to Eli Broad's privatization agenda

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Corporations 1, Communities 0, six members cave to Eli Broad's privatization agenda. Many thanks to those who tried to add as many commu...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Garfield HS Parents, Students, and Community Confront LAUSD VP Flores-Aguilar

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There was palpable anger in the air at Garfield High School when parents, students, and community confronted LAUSD Vice President Yolie Fl...

D-day plus one to save public schools

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Tonight there are two important events. On the west-side there's: Emerson Advocates Monday, August 24, 2009 6:30 - 7:30pm Emerson Middle...

The Famous GHS "web of corruption flyers" exposing LAUSD-Green Dot collaborators

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Garfield High School parents parents were passing these out while the community was locked out of the Villaraigosa/Austin town hall in which...
Friday, August 21, 2009

GHS Parents Oppose School Grab by Private Charters

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Garfield High School Parents Oppose School Grab by Private Charters: Press Conference August 21, 2009, 3:15pm What: Press Conference: Parent...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Aurora Ponce receives scholarship & speaks - courtesy of Cuts Hurt Kids

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Professor Shaffer's Open Letter to Howard Blume on the Austin/Villaraigosa Love Fest

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Professor Ralph E. Shaffer was kind enough to give me permission to reprint his open letter to Los Angeles Times staffer (and Steve Barr syc...

The TAX POEM viral email: debunking reactionary libertarian mythology

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I first saw the so called "Tax Poem" in 2007. I've been receiving it in chain emails from people at least once a month ever si...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Community Organizer Laurence Tan on Privatization

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Laurence Tan was kind enough to give me permission to reprint his view on school privatization, and how it impacts communities of color and ...

Report Green Dot's Ben Austin on the City Ethics Commission Complaint Form Online

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Today's closed faux "Garfield Town Hall" hosted at Catholic Charities (notably because Garfield's parents and teachers opp...

Green Dot Corporation's first foray for Yolie Flores Aguilar's Charter Give Away

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LAUSD Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines, at the behest of Green Dot Corporation and their billionaire benefactors, opened the first of their ...
Monday, August 10, 2009

Resist the School Privatization Tour Staring Ben Austin and his assistants the Mayor and LAUSD Superintendent

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Check here for the latest schedule, some have been moved or rescheduled. Please show up to counter the privatization propaganda tour. Green ...

LA Times' Steve Lopez prostrates before Green Dot again!

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Just when you think the Los Angeles Times editors can't grovel at the feet of Steve Barr, Marco Petruzzi, and Ben Austin's lucrativ...

The 50% dropout lie -- a Yolie Flores Aguilar excuse for privatization

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The reactionary right wing has repeated the lie about LAUSD's dropout rate being 50% for so long, that all enemies of public schools rep...
Friday, August 07, 2009

Social Justice Educator/Community Organizer Ron Gochez on Privatization

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Ron Gochez was kind enough to give me permission to reprint his excellent take on school privatization, and how it impacts communities of co...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

Resisting the blackmail of "Race to the Top," three articles

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State legislators' organization urges feds not to tie state aid to charter school policy Caroline Grannan looks at how the Education Co...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Community School Choice: An Alternative Way for LAUSD

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This is the final draft of the community counterproposal to Ms. Flores Aguilar's privatization resolution. Community School Choice: An A...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -- A "post-racial" America?

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In A "post-racial" America? Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor looks at what the arrest of African American scholar Henry Louis Gates--and t...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

First Draft -- Community School Choice: An Alternative Way for LAUSD

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A fellow activist asked me to type up something along these lines that he could use to mobilize people for the 25th. The following is only a...