More Details on Charges Against L.A. School Board President

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1. John Wund says:

   September 13, 2017 at 7:15 pm

   Hey, cheating and lying are an American tradition, right? How else could Old Man Rockefeller sell Seneca Oil?

   I suspect that the only reason this man is in jeopardy is because he is a ‘minority’ (in apparently several ways). He has no business being involved in the management of a large public school system, and, yet, I think this wouldn’t have happened to a White hedge fund manager.

   The man is dishonest, and needs to go. He sets a poor example. However, I think of him as a probable tragic figure. I think this might be fodder for a novel (An American Tragedy, II?).

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   • LeftCoastTeacher says:

     September 13, 2017 at 8:44 pm

     I don’t vote for gender, race, or sexual orientation. I vote for public school and 99 percenter advocacy. As in national elections, supporting a politician because of his race is racist. As in national elections, supporting a politician because of her gender or his sexuality is sexist. He’s a charter scam insider, so this is nothing but good news. I agree with this: “The man is dishonest, and needs to go.”

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     • LeftCoastTeacher says:

       September 13, 2017 at 8:45 pm

       Oh, and I almost forgot, justice is supposed to be blind too.

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     • John Wund says:

       September 13, 2017 at 9:10 pm

       I reviewed my comment, and note that my second paragraph could be interpreted as saying, “He has no business being involved in..public school” BECAUSE he was a minority (in several ways). This was far from my intent. In fact, I think that those very ‘minority’ traits make him an asset to a public system.

       It is not his ‘minority’ status that is problematic, but, rather, his lack of public school experience as well as his connection to the charter scam. I’d change my wording if there were a way to ‘edit’, but there is not.

       However, I still think a deeper study might reveal a tragedy.

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     • LeftCoastTeacher says:

       September 13, 2017 at 9:17 pm

       I’m sorry. I meant that his minority traits have nothing to do with anything. His voting record has everything to with everything, as do his acts of conspiracy to commit perjury.

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     • beazy says:

       September 13, 2017 at 11:22 pm

       John, he has plenty of saavy. He is definately a charter school insider. His campaign was sleezy and heavily funded by the charter heavy hitters……..Broad, Bloomberg, et. al. His opponenet is a good guy and Ref stood by, remaining silent, as his campaign’s supporters absolutely trashed an honorable man in T.V ads and deceptive mailers. The little innocence routine is bunk.

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     • Ellen Lubic says:

       September 14, 2017 at 3:48 pm

       Rodriguez only uses his ethnic background to generate sympathy. He actually is a multi millionaire and made most of his money from his 16 PUC charter schools. He is a very sophisticated guy who plays ‘poor me’. This makes his campaign donation finagling even more bizarre since he has enough of his own money to have donated it to his campaign…but his ethics led him to cheat abd break the law, yet again.

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   • SomeDAM poet says:

     September 14, 2017 at 3:09 pm

     The only tragedy is that it did not happen sooner. 😀

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2. Jack says:

   September 13, 2017 at 11:23 pm

   There’s something really odd near the end of the criminal complaint against Ref Rodriguez and his cousin.

   CLICK HERE:

   https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4020369-LASD-Complaint.html

   Jog down to page 11 of this pdf (and put it to Full Screen to see it better), and you find this midway down the page:

   x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
   “NOTICE: A Suspected Child Abuse Report (SCAR) may have been generated within the meaning of Penal Code # 11166 and 11168 involving the charges in this complaint. Dissemination of a SCAR is limited by Penal Codes # 11166 and 11168, and a court order is required for a full disclosure of the contents of a SCAR.”
   x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

   WTF???!!! What the hell does a child abuse complaint have to do with illegal campaign practices?

   Perhaps this has something do with another “NOTICE” on the same page:

   Just above this, there’s a demand for Ref Rodriguez to produce a DNA sample (???!!!) and a fingerprint sample:

   x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
   “NOTICE: Conviction of this offense will require the defendant to provide DNA samples, and print impressions pursuant to Penal Code # 296 and 296.1. Willful refusal to provide the samples and impressions is a crime.
   x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

   What do “DNA samples” and fingerprint samples have to do with a case of white collar crime? Are they considering the possibility that Ref licked an envelope with an illegal contribution check enclosed, and left DNA on it?

   Very odd.

   For any lawyers out there, what’s going on here?

   Pursuant to answering that question, here’s the entirety of Penal Code # 11166:

   http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN&sectionNum=11166

   and of Penal Code # 11168:

   http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=11168&lawCode=PEN

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   • Ellen Lubic says:

     September 14, 2017 at 4:36 pm

     Thanks Jack for once again delivering the facts. Hope everyone reads the link to the court filings. Clearly Rodriguez broke the law.

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3. Chiara says:

   September 14, 2017 at 8:26 am

   The headline of this piece is “LA collaborates to benefit students”

   “Grappling with long-standing tensions related to charter school expansion, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Michelle King is implementing changes designed to help district-managed schools and charter schools share school buildings and best educational practices — measures designed to promote collaboration and reduce conflicts over access to classrooms.

   The changes were recommended last spring by an advisory group that included school principals, parents and representatives from the school district, charter schools and United Teachers Los Angeles, which represents teachers in the district.”

   Except if you read it, there’s nothing that benefits public school students. They basically get more notice when they’re due to lose classrooms or buildings.

   I suppose getting notice when they’re slated to lose something is a “benefit” over NOT getting notice but it’s hardly a “win/win” – the public school students get nothing of value in these deals. The best the public school students can hope for is keeping the classrooms and programs they had before. There’s no “add” – it’s all loss mitigation.

   It’s like a mindset- one group is the “default” and the other is the focus. It seems to happen all the time in reform-dominated areas.

   http://www.dailybreeze.com/social-affairs/20170902/la-unified-pursuing-path-from-x200bconflict-to-district-charter-collaboration-in-how-it-shares-space?platform=hootsuite

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   • Ellen Lubic says:

     September 14, 2017 at 3:51 pm

     The Daily Breeze is a small conservative press in the South Bay of LA. and is not widely read. The LA Times is the main source of news for not only Californians, but for the nation and world wide.

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     • Ellen Lubic says:

       September 14, 2017 at 4:45 pm

       BTW..even though Eli Broad (and his associates like United Way) finances/controls many of the education articles written by the LA Times (see their disclosure comments at the end of these articles) which journalistically makes them merely opinions, they did report on Supt. King agreeing to work with, as in help with locations and financing of, charter schools, at LAUSD. Karen Wolfe made a video of her some months back as she spoke at a pro charter (very costly) rally EVENT in Pacoima, and said most of what the Daily Breeze and the LA Times report. At that EVENT with free food for all and balloons,etc., a Principal derided that inner city students of color should have to be bussed to attend “white schools” instead of having their own charters near by.

       Wonder who paid for that staged EVENT? Maybe Eli.???.maybe our taxpayers?

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