Howard Blume has an excellent article in the Los Angeles Times describing the corporate money that poured into the recent Los Angeles school board race.
He never quite pins down why all these moguls and titans want to control the LA school board, but he provides a useful dance card of the corporate reform movement.
Among their causes: privately managed charter schools; evaluating teachers by test scores; fighting the union; supporting Superintendent John Deasey; eroding collective bargaining.
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He does mention some things. The funniest part is his mentioning that some of them just want to help Obama with education agenda. Apparently that is such an innocent thing to do.
There is a poll at the end of the article where you can vote to say whether you agree with their agenda or not. Vote!
You should have been at the LAUSD Board today. Deasy and Garcia did not look so good some times. Deasy and Barr got chased out of Venice. Caught with their pants down on some charters even though they approved them. While the democratic party of California says they are against privatization corporatization and taking away teachers rights there is still AB 375 that other bills to take away teachers rights. You should have heard the interview that Board Member Galatzan, an asst. D.A., gave to one of the T.V. stations. I was right there. Trying to rationalize taking away the “Due Process” of teachers to protect the laws they have broken in the child abuse laws. The wonderful democrats are also pushing lowering the passage of different bonds from 2/3 to 55% to create “Permadebt.” The last $90 billion transportation bond, Measure J, financed by a 1/2 cent sales tax until 2069 had all of 1 paragraph of language. The previous $40 billion Measure R had 37 pages of language. Wonder why they wanted to be able to do anything with that money? By the way I am what I call a “Real Democrat” not a DFER or an Obamaite corporatist but one who believes in being a “Real Democrat” who protects the people and provides real education not like those fakes from D.C. at UCLA last night promoting “Students Last” and more of the D.C. mess. Who financed flying these losers all over the country to push this foolishness and loser charter schools and taking your money and your children’s lives at the same time? UCLA made sure that the other side was not heard. Yes, we raised a little hell over it. They were not very happy. Deasy will be there tomorrow. So maybe someone else wants to have fun with Deasy tomorrow. I do not think they will let us in as they are afraid of the truth and they want to make sure that only the corporate privatizer charter school wonders get heard. By the way I videoed some of it and it will be later on George1la. Also, no one said anything when a black woman who talked all about helping at LAUSD and in over 20 years never seen her at the board nor has anyone else I know and she basically calls me racist for being a white male. Now why is she saying that and why at UCLA is she not called down. You figure out the rest. This is not the first time nor the last. Just makes you wonder.
Doesn’t look very good in the poles or in the comments on this article. No wonder Deasy and Garcia did not look so good today along with the backlash on the anti teacher resolutions and legislation and with the union teachers voting no confidence in Deasy and his game by over 90%. UTLA and AALA, the teachers and administrators, unions were there in force with Warren Fletcher and David Lyle there along with David Tokofsky, for AALA and also being a former board member. Tokofsky if very smart and knowledgable and I personally think he is doing more now from the outside. I love to listen to him speak for students, parents and teachers benefit. Margarete LaMotte, Bennett Keyser and Richard Vladavic are steady votes for the children and the public. Unfortunately, that is only 3 of 7 votes. We need one more steady good vote and then the evil empire starts to crumble and a real house can be built and it would not take long with proper leadership. Remember “The Fish Rots From The Head.”