Tuesday, March 30, 2010

California's Number One Enemy of Public Education Nominated for the State Board of Education

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CALL YOUR STATE SENATOR AND TELL THEM YOU VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE BEN AUSTIN AND ALAN ARKATOV'S STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION NOMINATIONS Only Sc...
Monday, March 29, 2010

¿Que queremos? ¡Justicia! ¿Cuando que queremos? ¡Ahora! Animo Justice community marches and descends on Green Dot Public [sic] Schools headquarters

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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Open letter to Prof. Shaffer on Ánimo Justice - ¡Tenemos el Animo Pero No Justicia!

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Green Dot promised us a quality education and a democratic school where our voice counts, so why is our school being shut down with no paren...
Friday, March 26, 2010

LA Times writes a story on a Marshall Tuck's PLAS school and then pins blame on LAUSD?

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New depths have been plumbed by the voucher-charter happy publication on 1st Street. In " A lesson about speaking up " Mr. Hecto...

More Arne Duncan mendacity, elitism, and cronyism on display

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[ Click if you can't view the video ] Time for corporatist Arne "Katrina Schadenfreude" Duncan to step down from DOE. Li...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

UdB and Parents Host Community Forum on School Closures

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Special thanks to Social Justice Educator Jose Lara for passing this information on! Fremont, Menlo, Animo Justice, All school that will...

Central Falls Teachers Union Rally

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A Call To Action From a Concerned Parent

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This open letter from an anonymous parent in the Valley was sent to all social justice minded activists in order to spread awareness and agi...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Press Release: LET KIDS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS RUN ANIMO JUSTICE. CLOSE GREEN DOT!

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Press Release. March 23, 2010 By Leonard James Martin Candidate for the State of California, Superintendent of Public Instruction 2010 ...

A REAL Parent and Student Revolution brewing at Corporate Green Dot CMO Charter Schools

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"Everything we do from now moving forward, will be to expose all of Green Dot's lies and everything they lied to us and to our par...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

An Afternoon with Diane Ravitch - At UCLA!

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"The Obama administration is using its unprecedented billions to advance a strategy of deregulation and deprofessionalization." — ...

Jose Lara 0103 Video Blog [March15 Empty Chairs, Diane Ravitch, Obama's "post NCLB"]

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Root for Ed O'Bannon to upset the NCAA

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Dave Zirin, an east coast comrade has written a very important piece entitled Root for Ed O'Bannon to upset the NCAA about exploitation...

Money for Schools not for War!

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Money for Schools not for War! One would think if the Parent Revolution (née Los Angeles Parents Union) was really concerned about childr...

From Our Eyes - Stories and Photos From South Central Residents

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A close friend asked me to post this.

San Patricios - The Irishmen Who Died For Mexico

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Please share this with others! On this Saint Patrick's Day, we must remember the powerful connection that we as Mexicans have with the b...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

ISO*LA Meeting: Challenging Capitalism's Education Agenda

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"A deepened consciousness of their situation leads people to apprehend that situation as an historical reality susceptible to transform...
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Saturday, March 06, 2010

March 4 Day of Action to Save Public Education Videos

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The energy and militancy of the nationwide March 4 Day of Action to Save Public Education protests was encouraging. Here's a video I sho...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

March 4, 2010: While we protest budget cuts today, LAPU/PR's Ben Austin is in Denver pushing privatization plans for corporate charters

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"Soviet style elections" — Ben Austin in response to parents and communities choosing community school plans over corporate chart...

Jose Lara - Republican Education Plan: Same as the Democratic one

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Jose Lara was kind enough to give me permission to reprint his excellent take on the bi-partisan right wing school privatization agenda, and...