The special election for the empty seat on the LAUSD Board continues. If you recall the contest between Tony Thurmond and Marshall Tuck for state superintendent, the final vote was not released for many dates as the elections board counted mail-in ballots.
At this early stage, Jackie has 48.26% of the vote. The #2 and #3 candidates are virtually tied at about 13%.
A victory for Jackie is a defeat for the Billionaires Boys Club.
Watch for updates:
Diane Ravitch's blog 
If there is a run-off, the odds are that the billionaire bullies’ club will fund a massive propaganda campaign designed to smear Jackie through endless lies. Before they are done, some people might think she is an alien from another planet that’s responsible for global warming.
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“But plenty have not recovered. States where state plus local funding was lower in 2016 than it was pre-recession include Arizona (23 percent lower), North Carolina (18 percent), Oklahoma (13 percent), Colorado (1 percent), and Kentucky (0.3 percent) — all states with significant teacher protest over the last two years.”
Three of those states were dominated by ed reformers at the state level, and look at the results for public education: cuts. Arizona cut funding by nearly a quarter.
They’re really lousy advocates for public school students. In the states where they control government, students lose.
Teachers unions have done more in the past year for education funding than ed reformers have accomplished in the last ten years. If all those teachers hadn’t have gone on strike, public schools would still be completely ignored.
You wonder what it is all the ed reform lobbying groups actually DO. What is it they’re lobbying FOR? There are hundreds of ed reform groups with thousands of employees. Yet every year for a decade public education lost funding and no one did anything until teachers walked out?
https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2019/03/06/school-funding-great-recession-teacher-protests-cbpp-report/
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I love to read ed reformers on the cities they run, because they frame these articles as about “public schools” but you will not find a WORD about any school that is not a charter school:
“It’s perhaps no surprise that Mayor Muriel Bowser selected Lewis Ferebee to be the next chancellor of D.C. Public Schools. His work at Indianapolis Public Schools made him a rising star nationally. His five-year tenure (above average for urban superintendents) saw a reorganization of the central office to support school transformation and the growth of Innovation Network Schools, where independent entities, including charter management organizations, operate autonomous schools in partnership with IPS. Students at Innovation Network Schools have made big gains on standardized tests, one measure of school quality.”
Public schools don’t exist in ed reform. You’ll read one of their articles in one of the echo chamber outlets and it will begin with “Indianapolis” or “Chicago” or “Cleveland” schools, and what they’re really writing about is “charter schools in those places”.
It’s a deliberate omission. They simply exclude 40 or 60 or 70 or 80 or 90% of schools.
The schools that don’t meet their ideological requirements for privatization simply cease to exist. If it’s a “traditional” public school it disappears from all ed reform articles, even if that means “disappearing” 60% of the schools in a given city.
Arne Duncan found ONE public school he chose to praise publicly over 8 years- it was a public school that rebuilt after being destroyed by a tornado.
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It’s hard to get a sense of how many vote-by-mail ballots from relevant precintcs have still not been counted, but my back of the envelope guesstimation puts it at about 10,000 [I believe about 27,000 of 37,000 votes having been tallied in Jackie’s 122 precincts.]
It seems possible that she could win it.
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