Monday, October 29, 2012

Schools Matter: How the VAM/AGT pseudoscience worm turns

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First published on Schools Matter on October 29, 2012. While value-added models are intended estimate teacher effects on student achie...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Second Community Based LAUSD District 2 Candidate Forum Announced

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I am honored to have been invited to this event and am looking forward to discussing critical education issues. Many thanks to the District ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Yes on 30! No on 32!

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Yes on 30 ! No on 32 ! Tax Millionaire and Stop Their Power Grab. It's time for Ben Austin, Gloria Romero, and Eli Broad to pay...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

First Community Based LAUSD District 2 Candidate Forum Announced

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I am honored to have been invited to this event and am looking forward to discussing critical education issues. Many thanks to the District ...

ALEC/DFER's Gloria Romero Stands Her Ground on Won't Back Down

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ALEC/DFER's Gloria Romero Stands Her Ground on Won't Back Down "The idea of “choice” has been manipulated by the corporate re...
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Help Save LAUSD's Crenshaw and Dorsey High Schools

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PREVENT SCHOOL CLOSURE/RECONSTITUTION! Join Crenshaw and Dorsey High Schools at an EMERGENCY Community Meeting Join Us at Our Commun...
Monday, October 01, 2012

Schools Matter: Kopp's shameless self-promotion in the guise of a Kozol book review

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"Ms. Kopp's husband, Richard Barth, was an Edison executive before taking over as CEO of KIPP's national foundation, where he ...

Robert D. Skeels, candidato al distrito 2 para desplazar a Mónica García

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Robert D. Skeels explica por qué se ha lanzado como candidato al distrito 2 para desplazar a Mónica García, a quien considera pésima dir...

EchoParkPatch: Expired food products being served by Walmart Foundation funded LAUSD Breakfast in the Classroom

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"So long as there are children who are coming to school hungry, there will be a need for school breakfast programs, and until workers ...

Schools Matter: Comments on Fordham's Adam Emerson's latest pro-CCSA screed

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The driving assumption for the pro-charter side, of course, is that market competition in education will be like that for toothpaste — prov...

robertdskeelsforschoolboard.org: Petitions to Move LAUSD Board Meetings to the Evening

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From my LAUSD Campaign Site on September 6, 2012 For far too long only the well-paid members of the Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC)...

Chicago Teachers Union Versus Astroturf Billionaires

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Billionaires like the Koch Brothers, Betsy DeVos, and Bill Gates fund astroturf tools like Jonah Edelman, Rebecca Nieves Huffman, and Kyl...

Schools Matter: Tami Abdollah and John Deasy gush that 'Size Matters'

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"Just continue to follow the money. This Race to the Trough will make the Reading First crooks under Bush look like dopey Boy Scouts....

The Daily Censored: Mónica García champions the Gülenist Charter Movement in LAUSD

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First published on The Daily Censored on August 5, 2012. "This increasingly well-rooted network provides the Gulen Movement with d...

Schools Matter: Obscuring history and human agency through NCLB, RTTT and CCSS

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"Prior research, then, strongly suggests that charter programs have not lived up to their initial promise of transcending the segregat...

Schools Matter: New Jersey's big fat corporate ed reform liars

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Al denounced the idea of charters when it became clear that the concept had changed and was being hijacked by corporate and business intere...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Daily Kos: American Center for School Choice Versus The John Birch Society

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First published July 06, 2012 in Daily Kos The so-called "Parent Trigger" is an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALE...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Recall Monica Garcia! Picket outside LA Chamber of Commerce

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Backed into a corner by a monster it helped create, LAUSD fights back against charter colocation greed

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First Published on Schools Matter Although the bungalows are used for after school programs, art classes, festivals and special education...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Protesting the Mónica García Privatization Celebration Event

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On the morning of Friday July 13, 2012 wealthy charter corporation heads, billionaire funded 501c3 "non-profits," and well heel...