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pali teacher April 13, 2013 at 09:14 pm
Cramming 2950 students into a school built for 1800 is stupid and does not serve students' best…Read More interest. Riding a school bus for over 2 hours a day to sit in overcrowded classrooms is child abuse. The "Charter School Movement" is all about money!!
pali teacher March 29, 2013 at 11:18 pm
Cramming 2950 students into a school that was built for 1800 is stupid and does not serve students'…Read More best interest. Riding 2 hours to school on a bus to sit in an overcrowded classroom is child abuse! The Charter School "movement" is all about money!!
pali teacher March 29, 2013 at 11:08 pm
Why are these staff people working late in the evening for little or no pay?
Working like a dog…Read More after hours does not help you become a better teacher and
no one cares about it except for your family that you miss spending precious time with. Too much "Happy Talk" in this woman's speech!!
Nancy March 13, 2013 at 01:06 pm
St. Matthews is not the Catholic school. How about researching your facts first?
Alice Simmons March 13, 2013 at 12:32 pm
Hi -- St. Matthew's is not a Catholic school but rather an Episcopalian school. Thanks.
John Milbauer March 5, 2013 at 08:14 pm
Lisa......and anyone else who will read this......My concern about this posting is that we depend on…Read More Hollywood Patch to give us news. If people want to post their opinions, so be it. But an internet site that purports to be a news site, has no business allowing a headline with an article to run that advances anyone's candidacy. It is just not ethical journalism nor is it appropriate.
Lisa Chapman March 5, 2013 at 06:42 pm
I also have to say that I really resent Mr. Zimmer's comments that Bloomberg's donation to reform…Read More candidates is an attempt to "buy" Mr. Zimmer's seat. Mr. Bloomberg has seen drastic reform efforts work in New York, and believes, with a majoriy of others, that this can happen in Los Angeles as well. When you are anti-reform, anti-charter, and anti choice, then you are not the right choice for the LAUSD board. Tiem has come, and is long overdue for change. Stand with you, Mr. Zimmer? I believe we will stand for ALL LAUSD students needs being met, and we will stand for imminent reform of LAUSD and their fiscal ineptitude, we will stand against the all too powerful UTLA union that only serves to stagnate change and reform in this system. We do not stand for the status quo. You are the status quo, and it is time that you leave us.
Lisa Chapman March 5, 2013 at 05:29 pm
John...you are absolutely correct. But Steve Zimmer has no good record to run on, so this is what he…Read More is reduced to doing....shameful. Kate Anderson all the way...let's reform this wretched school board....
LA Momma March 5, 2013 at 01:32 am
I met Steve Zimmer a few months ago when he was feeding homeless kids. There was no press, no major…Read More donors around, much less parents - these were throw away kids and Steve was there for them. I think that says a LOT about his character and how you can expect him to care about *all*of the students. Not jus a few, not just those whose parents complain the loudest, but those for whom NO ONE speaks. Plus, he was a teacher. If goodness and public service don't earn your vote, then public education is really in trouble.
Deborah Lashever March 4, 2013 at 05:25 am
Read this about why billionaires form other cities are funding Kate Anderson:…Read More
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/los-angeles-public-education_b_2798894.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#.UTQc_h3Jamc.facebook
Lydia March 5, 2013 at 11:09 pm
-Special needs students are not being properly served at charters, especially here in the Westside.…Read More
- does or has Ms. Anderson ever acknowledge the students in the pockets of poverty that exists over here?
- culturally and socio-economically diverse students should have fair and equal access to a quality education.
- it's not a choice when you have WIN a spot in a lottery for a child' s seat at a school....
- we aren't going anywhere. Our homes are here. Even when people do not see us it does not mean we cease to exist.
lydia ponce March 5, 2013 at 11:07 pm
-Special needs students are not being properly served at charters, especially here in the Westside.…Read More
- does or has Ms. Anderson ever acknowledge the students in the pockets of poverty that exists over here?
- culturally and socio-economically diverse students should have fair and equal access to a quality education.
- it's not a choice when you have WIN a spot in a lottery for a child' s seat at a school....
- we aren't going anywhere. Our homes are here. Even when people do not see us it does not mean we cease to exist.
Jack Covey March 5, 2013 at 08:54 pm
One more bit from Diane that I can't leave out:
"Los Angeles already has more charters than…Read More any other city in the nation. School board member Steve Zimmer had the temerity to propose that the board develop a policy for oversight of charters before creating new ones. Zimmer enraged the charter lobby, which wants no oversight and no moratorium.
"Zimmer, who started his career in Teach for America and remained in the public schools as a career teacher, is in his first term. He is known as a moderate who is independent, belonging to no bloc.
"The billionaires don’t want independents on the L.A. School board. They want people who will support more charters, more onerous teacher evaluations, more high-stakes testing, more closing of public schools.
"With Mayor Bloomberg’s time in office coming to an end, and the possibility that his reforms will be tossed out by the next mayor, the corporate reformers don’t want to risk losing control of Los Angeles."
It's at:
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/03/05/breaking-news-more-into-los-angeles-race/
Jack Covey March 5, 2013 at 08:50 pm
Diane Ravitch on the results of Bloomberg's control of NYC schools:…Read More
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/03/05/proof-that-bloomberg-reforms-failed/
"The other 95% (of students/parents) have been forgotten, adrift in a system that has been reorganized four times, with all regional and district supervision eliminated, with the loss of large numbers of excellent principals and the hiring of large numbers of ill-prepared principals, left on their own and judged by test scores.
"What have the 95% gotten? Tests, pre-tests, test prep. School closings. Overcrowded classes.
“ 'Tweed,' as the central bureaucracy is called, operates with slavish devotion to 'data,' but cold indifference to human beings. The young MBAs at Tweed have spent a decade wiping out institutional memory and attempting to create a bureaucratic, efficient, computer-driven system that churns out higher test scores.
"The Bloomberg example reveals the shortcomings of corporate reform. It sets parent against parent in battles for choice and space. It destroys neighborhood schools. It gives preference to schools under private management. It shatters communities so they will be unable to organize and fight back. It lacks any vision of what education is or should be. It has neither reformed the public schools nor provided better education for all students."
Do the citizen-taxpayers of LAUSD want this here?
Deborah Lashever March 3, 2013 at 08:39 pm
It is a crime that SMC--the state's best Community College--that successfully funnels the most…Read More students into the UC system-- has such HUGE cuts! BAD planning!
The sequester is BS! They KNEW it would come to this. It is their way of making these drastic cuts without anyone to really take the blame. TOTAL political CRAP.
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