The LAUSD Takes A Step Backward On COVID
Caving into pressure from a vocal anti-vax minority, Los Angeles schools will not enforce the vaccine mandate when classes resume in January.
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Sunday Mailbag December 19
C.P. in Los Angeles, CA, writes: If Ron DeSantis does not want students to be WOKE, does that mean he supports them sleeping through their education?
V & Z respond: It worked for him, apparently.
Read the full column at Electoral-Vote.com.
Charter School Debt Continues To Grow
The latest data released by LAUSD’s Charter School Division shows that publicly funded private schools now owe the district $13,758,747.
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School Board Member's Office Faces Another Ethics Complaint
Is Allison Holdorff Polhill, Chief Advisor to LAUSD BD4’s Nick Melvoin, improperly using district facilities in her City Council campaign?
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New Leader Of Los Angeles Schools Selected Behind Closed Doors
Hopes are high for LAUSD Superintendent selected unanimously by a divided school board, but the fact remains that stakeholders had no input.
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Sunday Mailbag December 12
C.P. in Los Angeles, CA, writes: Chris Truax is absolutely correct, "the House of Representatives is not your typical workplace." Most workplaces don't have the threat of customers violently storming the worksite because they don't like the product.
I do agree with the part about making Lauren Boebert the face of the party, as I wrote about last week.
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Sibling Rivalries
There is no playing for fun. No matter how old my sister and I get, put us in front of an air hockey table and we are going to fight to win.
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Carl J. Petersen: Charter Schools Pay Down A Minuscule Amount Of Debt
"Carl Petersen writes about educational shenanigans in the Los Angeles area. This time he’s looking at the vast slice of unpaid debt that charters owe the public school system...Read the full post here."
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Somebody Is Not Telling The Truth
Granada Hills Charter School blamed an LAUSD rule for the firing of staffers. Board Member Nick Melvoin says the rule did not apply to them.
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Lauren Boebert Is The Symptom, Not The Disease
Censuring the freshman congresswoman won’t change the fact that the bigotry she espouses has deep support within the GOP.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) plays a horrific death threat she received following Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) recent Islamophobic attacks on her.
— The Recount (@therecount) November 30, 2021
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