Showing posts with label neoliberalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neoliberalism. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2022

Schools Matter: Reflecting on Green Dot’s Disastrous Locke Takeover

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“Green Dot came and made it into more of a jail.” — Chris My history of opposing the Green Dot Charter School Corporation back when I w...
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Sunday, January 10, 2021

Recommending: Time to End Tax Breaks for Charter Schools and The Ultra-Rich

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  “The same day he revealed Cardona as his education nominee, it was announced Biden rehired Reed as deputy chief of staff, despite pre-empt...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Outgoing Administration Admits Charters are not Public Schools

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The latest executive order by troglodyte Trump tacitly admits that charter schools are *NOT* public schools. We all knew that, but it's...
Saturday, August 01, 2020

Open Letter to LAUSD Board Regarding the Implementation of AB 1505

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A copy of this letter was sent to each individual member via email August 1, 2020 Dear Members of the Board of Education: I am an educ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Open Letter to LAUSD Board regarding Citizens of the World Charter School Corporation

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A copy of this letter was sent to each individual member via email March 11, 2020 Dear Members of the Board of Education: I am an educ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Schools Matter: Lawsuit against The Accelerated Schools corporate charter chain

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First published on Schools Matter on December 18, 2019 This action against The Accelerated Schools (TAS) corporation , on behalf of Mi...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Schools Matter: A charter school story

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First published on Schools Matter on April 16, 2019 I want to apologize to Schools Matter readers for my infrequent contributions. I ...
Wednesday, March 06, 2019

LAUSD District 5 Special Election morning after (March 6, 2019)

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Looks like the two good candidates — Jackie Goldberg and Graciela Ortiz — will be in the run-off, and the vile California Charter Schools ...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Florina Rodov: The Truth About Charter Schools

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“[W]hen teachers aren’t unionized, they’re exploited — and when teachers suffer, so do kids.” — Florina Rodov This amazing piece by Florin...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Elmo isn't Gramsci for kids and the mythical soft bigotry of low expectations

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This short essay was originally published on The Daily Censored on August 11, 2011 . It would seem that all of the old works on that site a...
Saturday, December 02, 2017

Stop Wendy Carrillo from implementing the Betsy DeVos agenda!

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“[C]harter schools with privately appointed boards do not represent the public but make decisions about how public funds are spent…” — NAACP...
Friday, October 06, 2017

Jeanne Allen: Reactionary Right-Wing Extremist

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Allen: On board with ALEC It’s general knowledge that Center for Education Reform (CER), and its CEO Jeanne Allen, are extremely right-w...
Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Schools Matter: Time to end the racist triumvirate of Tuck, Huppenthal, and Horne

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First published on Schools Matter on August 29, 2017 It’s a tale of white fragility and fear, really.— Imani Gandy These two racist...
Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Charter schools harm students

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Remediation costs from charter high school “graduates” getting into college, but not having basic proficiency are astronomical both in ter...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Senator Bernie Sanders endorses Padilla and Zimmer for LAUSD

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Senator Bernie Sanders stands against right-wing privatizers like Melvoin. Sanders endorses Padilla and Zimmer for LAUSD. https://charter...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Schools Matter: Privatizer Nick Melvoin wants Betsy DeVos style policies for Los Angeles

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First published on Schools Matter on May 13, 2017 "Melvoin’s people are not ordinary constituents passing daily through LAUSD’...
Friday, May 05, 2017

Graphic Essay: Betsy DeVos' 'School Choice' Movement Isn't Social Justice. It's a Return to Segregation.

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Charters and vouchers have always been intended to break public schools, and wrest education away from the public commons. "School choi...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Tell California State Senators to support SB 808

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Network for Public Education (NPE) is helping to support California Senate Bill 808. The legislation, while it doesn't go far enough,...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Schools Matter: The Monica Garcia - Betsy DeVos connection

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First published on Schools Matter on December 13, 2016 “Monica Garcia believes in… choice… She expanded charter schools” — Michael R. ...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Schools Matter: I can't think of anyone as profoundly ignorant, or as uniquely unqualified to be appointed Secretary of Education as Betsy…

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First published on Schools Matter on February 07, 2017 I can't think of anyone as profoundly ignorant, or as uniquely unqualifie...