Thursday, June 30, 2011

Alicia Brossy de Dios Reports Back from First Save Clay MS Community Meeting

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"Any vote for Green Dot is a vote for deform... You are playing with the lives of children — not cars, not bicycles." — The Honora...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

A Conversation With Dr. Diane Ravitch at Lesley University

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In conversation with President Joseph Moore at Lesley University, Dr. Diane Ravitch discusses the effects of school choice and voucher plans...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

A voice for community and public education - Robert D. Skeels

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"I don't hear any of the corporate reformers expressing concern about the way standardized testing narrows the curriculum, the way ...
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Resist the hostile Green Dot takeover of Henry Clay Middle School!

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"The lowest-performing, based on test scores, is the large Green Dot chain." — Los Angeles Times Under the deceptively called P...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Schools Matter: NCTQ's LAUSD report's highly questionable veracity shows Bill Gates' pervasiveness and perniciousness

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First published on Schools Matter on June 12, 2011 Reformers appeal to the urgency of confronting "failing schools," but the...
Sunday, June 05, 2011

OpineRegress: Matthew Yglesias' reactionary education policy pandering

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"In the long run, charter schools are being strategically used to pave the way for vouchers. The voucher advocates, who are very powerf...
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Friday, June 03, 2011

Naomi Klein on Democracy vs. Neoliberalism (or how charter schools and corporate edreform got their foothold)

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Vik Chaubey: Comments on Avaricious Andre Agassi's Charter Ponzi Scheme

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"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." — War...
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Thursday, June 02, 2011

Millionaires, Mendaciousness, and Miserable English Scores: the false Locke success story

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"The lowest-performing, based on test scores, is the large Green Dot chain." — Los Angeles Times Green Dot Corporation Cheerlea...
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Robert D. Skeels on KPFK Pacifica Radio

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I was interviewed for this story by Ernesto Arce of KPFK News on the day of the LAUSD District 5 runoff election, Tuesday May 17, 2011. The ...

LAUSD's Nury Martinez Slanderously calls an Echo Park Mother a Racist

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Ms. Martinez's response to this parent's impassioned speech is so despicable and deplorable, that I will need time to calm down and...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Dr. Stephen Krashen featured on People Make a Difference

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People Make a Difference with Danny Brassell 03/14/2011 interviewing the distinguished Dr. Stephen Krashen. A real education expert discusse...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

An Echo Park Mom speaks out on the LAUSD District 5 Race

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My dear friends and neighbors, please join me and Jackie Goldberg and vote for Bennett Kayser in TUESDAY's election. Please vote tomorro...

Reprint of letter to the 4LAKIDS editor on LAUSD District 5 race

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Scott Folsom's 4LAKIDS site featured this letter with his commentary preceeding it on Saturday. I'm reprinting it here without modi...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

State of Emergency Declared for Public School Funding

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First published in EchoParkPatch on 2011-05-15 "Please don't punish our teachers for their hard work!" — Nathaniel Farley (...

Dr. Stephen Krashen on The Case for Libraries

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"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way ...
Friday, May 13, 2011

The Importance of Tuesday's Runoff for LAUSD District 5 Board Seat

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First published in EchoParkPatch on 2011-05-13 " Luis Sanchez ...worked the room at a posh Beverly Hills condo...The nearly 50 gues...

Those who can, teach

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Funny how the cretinous idiots that write "those that can't, teach" learned how to write from a teacher! — Robert D. Skeels ...
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Professor Michael Moore: Cornering the education market

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The testing business is a $2.3 billion business. But testing is not where the real money is made. If you want to pass the test, you're g...
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