Will Social Distancing Work in Schools?
Dr. Mike Robinson: How can schools practice social distancing when kids return to school?
Carl J. Petersen: If there is a bright side to this crisis it may be that students finally get the smaller class sizes that they deserve. Unfortunately, it took a health care crisis to get it done.
While administrators will bear the responsibility for ensuring that there are fewer students in a classroom, teachers are going to have to be empowered...
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Neighborhood Council Joins Call For Prop-39 Moratorium
Under the proposal new co-locations of charter schools on LAUSD public school campuses would be suspended until the COVID-19 crisis has passed.
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The LAUSD Is Feeding Adults In Need - Who Should Pay The Cost?
School board candidate admonishes incumbent for asking the city for needed funding while her own charter school turns away those in need.
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The LAUSD Steps Up During A Crisis
The COVID-19 crisis shines a spotlight on how public schools serve their communities while some charter schools leave them behind.
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CA-25 Candidate Mike Garcia: What Is The Plan?
Trump-supporting CA-25 candidate Mike Garcia wants voters to know that he is a fighter pilot but does not explain how that has prepared him for office.
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CA-25 Candidate Christy Smith On Federal Education Issues
Trump and his charter school industry supporters are attacking former school board member Christy Smith. What are her real positions on the issues?
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Citizens Of The World Charter School: The Unwelcomed House Guest
LAUSD's Shirley Avenue Elementary is not the first community to fight off an invasion from this nationwide chain of publicly funded private schools.
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Is There An Acceptable Level Of Anti-Semitism?
Charter school industry promoter, Ben Austin, says we should ignore ads in an LAUSD School Board race that he admits were anti-Semitic.
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Headlines: LAUSD Earns High Marks For “Grab And Go”, Rough Financial Times Coming and More on Elections.
"Meanwhile, there’s still an election going on for LAUSD Board seats. Former candidate Carl Petersen skewers the attempt by charter school strategist Ben Austin to sustain an ‘anti-semitism sweepstakes’, falsely equating and comparing UTLA with the charter school lobby. During the primary season, anti-semitic flyers deluged board district 3 in the Valley and Austin claims these are subordinate to UTLA ads targeting high profile allies of Austin’s decades-long campaign to privatize public education."
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Essential?
Ignoring "Safer at Home" directives, the LAUSD sends a team to determine how Shirley Ave. Elementary's facilities will be given away to a charter school.
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