What is not to love about Monica?
She beat the Billionaires Boys Club, which had assembled a massive campaign fund to defeat her.
She was trained as a lawyer, worked in civil rights law, then became a teacher.
She has taught for 12 years in a high-poverty school.
She won election to the LAUSD school board as a long-shot underdog.
Here she gently explains to a host on the Fox Morning Show that all the claims he has heard about the public schools of Los Angeles and about teachers are not true. She patiently explains how excited teachers are to return to their classes, how they pay for supplies out of their own pockets, and how dedicated they are to the success of their students.
Go, Monica, go!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Yea Monica!!!!!!!!!!
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Okay….I say go Monica go, but that interview is just one more example of a so called ‘unbiased’ news host with an overtone of doubt. Wouldn’t it be remarkable if just for once, there would be an assumption that the LAUSD provides an outstanding education and that more of the population with means to go anywhere should CHOOSE their neighborhood schools. That’s what will make all the difference in perception.
hey ‘reformers’…that would really be progress.
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Thanks for posting this video Diane. Wish there were more comments on this strong intelligent woman who I early on told this venue was the real deal. And when some cast doubt due to the e4e meeting, I suggested they not give her heavy hits but wait it out and let her speak for herself about her reasons for her attendance.
This teacher/lawyer/community leader is a class act. I hope with the new Board composition she will encourage more realistic district decisions. And if Alex Caputo-Pearl wins the UTLA election, the union and the school board will partner to the benefit our LAUSD students.
Hey there, LA teachers and parents, let’s hear from you. And LA Times writers, let’s get more accurate and stop the bias toward charters and parent trigger…for shame….you know who you are….and you all read this blog site.
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Not too impressed with her answers. I didn’t hear a word about students in the LAUSD beset by poverty, I didn’t hear a word about why standardized testing is not the measure to be hanging your hat on in order to judge teacher performance (let alone to be publishing in a newspaper), and I didn’t hear a word about how voucher students and charter schools on the whole perform worse that traditional public school students. And I’m not contradicting myself either – standardized test scores are a terrible way to evaluate teachers, but if reformers are claiming that vouchers and charters are the answer, and have forced the narrative that standardized testing outcomes should be the measure we use – then why not come clean about the performance of charters and vouchers on standardized testing?
I think she should of let the guy have it. Her answers were to politically motivated.
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Part of me sort of agrees with you, but when I think
it over, am glad she responded as she did. There’s
a time and a place for a take-down of corporate
reform, but this wasn’t it…. IMHO… be patient.
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