The Network for Public Education Action Fund is delighted to endorse Jackie Goldberg for election to the Los Angeles Unified School District School Board.
Jackie is the ideal candidate to replace convicted felon and charter school founder Ref Rodriguez.
She has experience, knowledge, integrity, and wisdom.
The Network for Public Education Action has endorsed Jackie Goldberg for the District 5 seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education.
Jackie has a long history as a public servant with a passionate voice in defense of public education. She previously served on the LAUSD board from 1983 to 1991, and the Los Angeles City Council from 1993-2000. She went on to serve in the California State Assembly from 2000-2006, where she chaired the Assembly Education Committee for several years.
With her decades of experience, Jackie has concluded that “the billionaires have stacked the deck against district public schools.” The 2017 LAUSD school board election was the most expensive in history, with almost $10,000,000 in outside spending coming from pro-charter groups.
By winning this election Jackie hopes to prevent a 4 to 7 majority controlled by the board members elected with pro-charter money.
Jackie has remained active with grassroots activism as a founding member of TEAch (Transparency, Equity, and Accountability for Charters), a group dedicated to increasing public accountability within the charter sector. She has also remained active as a community watchdog of the LAUSD board, delivering powerful public comment at meetings.
Jackie will be up against an avalanche of money in this election. The board and staff of NPE Action urge you to vote for Jackie Goldberg in the primary election on March 5, 2019. It will be up to us to show that people power can triumph over the billionaire’s agenda for LAUSD.
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It would be wonderful if she wins – perhaps finally able to bring Beutner, Garcia, and Melvoin to account. Meantime, we will strike Jan. 10.
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This is a must win. Fortunately, Jackie is the honest and straightforward candidate we need in order to win. The endorsement is meangful, and so thanks for it from this L.A. teacher.
And, I am ready to strike on the 10th, to stand up to the hostile, corporate takeover that imposes privatization and fiscal austerity and opposes civil rights. Section 1.5 of our contract, which lets the district unilaterally raise class sizes, must go. Ready. Confident. Proud. And Teacher Strong.
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A lot of people in Los Angeles were hoping the two sides would find middle ground.
There is no middle ground.
I think Jackie Goldberg knows that. Love her!
The district is already losing over half a billion dollars a year to unregulated charters. The dire fiscal predictions made by the district are based on ever increasing enrollment losses to charters. Remember Broad’s secret plan to takeover half the enrollment? Sacramento, however, is now poised to finally stop the bleeding and manage charter expansion intelligently. Villaraigosa and Tuck lost. The district must follow suit and not let the bottom drop out of the pension funds supporting generations of people who served and continue to serve the public good. Hire teachers, librarians, nurses, and counselors. Reduce class sizes and fill the classrooms over which charter vulture capitalists circle.
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Susan Davis, a Democratic U.S. House member representing a district in California received her 2nd highest campaign donation from AFT. Davis’ position on education- “charter schools should be an option in every state and community”.
Evidently, she doesn’t think democratic control of local schools has value.
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