A few people in Los Angeles who think a great deal about education issues decided to launch a new website. They are real people who are not funded by billionaires Eli Broad, Reed Hastings, the Waltons, Bill Bloomfield, Michael Bloomberg, or Bull Gates. Imagine that!
Blogger Sara Roos writes an introduction:
Dears:
With this I am announcing the launch of the Los Angeles Education Examiner, a site for news about things-educational in LA and beyond.
Included on my blog, RedQueenInLA.com are two of LAEdEx’s first two new postings, attempting to stake out the reaches of our coverage. I am embarking on this effort with friend, neighbor and colleague Damien Newton of StreetsBlogLA.comfame. LA EdEx will be a non-profit, online news website covering the education beat in and around Los Angeles.
So please look here or at la-edex.org at these introductory pieces as we start exploring what it means to educate kids in LA, how their world is at once insular and intensely important within one’s own little family, while also being politically critical in a very big sense, a microscosm of all the whirlings of money, power, and social interactions beyond.
Thanks for your support by reading, forwarding and maybe even considering – gasp – contributing!
-Sara.
http://redqueeninla.com/2020/02/12/rqila-passes-a-marker-launching-the-los-angeles-education-examiner/
http://redqueeninla.com/2020/02/12/schools-reach-beyond-the-classroom/
http://la-edex.org/welcome-to-and-from-the-los-angeles-education-examiner/
http://la-edex.org/schools-reach-beyond-the-classroom/
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Do they call themselves “The Real People (Not funded by Billionaires)”(TM), by any chance?
If so. I would be skeptical.
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Nah …. lol. Anyway, we’d be ®ealPeople. I think that’s just Diane’s moniker in response to the onslaught of weird printed political slander flying about in our board elections here
(in LA) that really, no one but corporate bots could have the temerity to dream up. It probably makes you react overtly appreciatively of “realness” in a context of so much artificiality.
It’s hard to comprehend or credit the scale of corporate onslaught here. The market is big, the stakes are high so logically speaking, it makes sense. But functionally, personally, it’s just – it just doesn’t compute. One of our few sources of education news around here is The 74 (sold by Jamie Alter Lynton who started it, to Brown’s agitprop mill) so again, in that context, hyperbole gets asserted. We’re not “real”, we’re just not, well, paid. 😉
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If you are in L.A., don’t ignore the new (appointed this summer) Superintendent of Los Angeles Catholic schools. His bio. reports he ran a charter school and it shows connections to Calf. politicos who pushed privatization.
His predecessor is a Fellow of Gates-funded Pahara. That guy’s now in the DC area as CIO for an umbrella Catholic school organization.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops self describe as strong advocates for school choice since the beginning. The state Catholic Conferences and Catholic Action Networks are very engaged in getting school choice as public policy. Oklahoma’s Catholic Conference cites the American Federation of Children and Real Clear.
Newsome’s chief of staff has connections to Gates-funded Center for American Progress which hawks charter schools. The CAP Board Chair founded BiPartisan Policy Center which has education sessions sponsored by Gates and Arnold. George Miller is the guy who appears to be running BPC’s education interests there.
The Rossiter School of Ed. dean (at the scandal ridden University of Southern California) is a Pahara Fellow.
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Fantastic idea! Bookmarked. RQLA, you are powerfully knowledgeable and insightful. And it was great to see you again on Sunday. Sorry I didn’t get a chance to talk to you.
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LCT,
I know both you and the Red Queen in LA. I should have introduced you. Write and I will share emails.
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A whole parallel system of commerce is needed. The Credo phone service works to supplant right wing AT&T. With justice, Education Examiner will flourish, also.
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yes.
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Linda, thank you for that very sweet sentiment and interesting connection to AT&T/Credo. But the information about LA’s Catholic Schools is fascinating; I know nothing of this. Would you please contact me via sara@la-edex.org . I would love to interest you in writing something to post with us, but if not then perhaps you can school me on the basics so we can report more of it.
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Mr. LeftCoastTeacher, I’ve long wondered who you are and didn’t realize I might actually know. Please would you allow me to link you when next we meet? I am a fan of your writing!
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LCT is a tall handsome young man. I met him last Sunday in LA and gave him a big hug.
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Who knew that Diane Ravitch was also a Blogreader:
“I see it now. There is a tall handsome young man in your future.”
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In L.A., all of the people, male and female, look like they belong on USC’s beach volley ball team.
Moving west, squat people are discovered.
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East. not west.
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