Student-led forum questions District 2 candidates on Trump policies, bullying and safety

Posted by · February 13, 2017 10:25 AM

"Petersen was the only one who launched into attacks on García, a few times citing stories and quotes from LA School Report."

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CARL PETERSEN FOR LAUSD BOARD DISTRICT 2

Posted by · February 08, 2017 10:02 PM

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With a great deal of all too rare enthusiasm that I whole-heartedly endorse the candidacy of Carl Petersen in the race for the Los Angeles Unified School District Board District 2 position presently held by Monica Garcia. In her long tenure as an LAUSD board member Garcia has done absolutely nothing to stem the decay of public education at LAUSD nor has she done anything to rein in the obscene profits of vendors of goods and services to LAUSD that presently have the district on the verge of bankruptcy.

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LAUSD Board Elections – Online Edition

Posted by · February 08, 2017 9:55 PM

Carl Petersen (@ChangetheLAUSD) is a prolific tweeter, who has averaged 12.7 tweets a day since June. Almost all of them tweet at his opponent, Monica Garcia. In fact, he has mentioned Monica Garcia 229 times.

Monica Garcia (@Monica4LAUSD) on the other hand has averaged 3.5 tweets a day during that time, has not mentioned Carl Petersen once.

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Meet an LAUSD school board candidate — District 2’s Carl Petersen: ‘The bureaucracy is just so huge’

Posted by · February 07, 2017 6:46 AM

Anyone who regularly attends LA Unified school board meetings will be familiar with Carl J. Petersen, who frequently addresses the board, and often is critical of what they are doing. Lately, he has been wearing one of his many “Carl Petersen for School Board” T-shirts.

Petersen, 49, ran against Tamar Galatzan as one of five candidates in the San Fernando Valley that forced her into a run-off, and then he threw his support for Scott Schmerelson who defeated her.

This time, he is running against Mónica García in District 2 in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles. He is renting a room in the district and said his wife, Nicole, and three daughters will soon follow...

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LA’s special ed challenge: Integrating students at younger ages without putting special education centers at risk

Posted by · January 17, 2017 5:23 AM

"'Any time a kid can be mainstreamed, they should, but it’s just not feasible for all kids,' said Petersen, who pointed out that he is running for school board in part to bring special ed issues to the forefront.

Petersen is a supporter of the special education centers and would like to see general education students brought into the special education centers, to integrate the students, rather than forcing some of the students with more severe cases into general education classrooms that weren’t designed for those students’ needs.

Petersen also supports establishing magnet schools on the campuses of special education centers for students who are interested in careers in special ed."

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LAUSD softens ‘disruptive person’ letters, but parents are still angry

Posted by · November 29, 2016 10:18 AM

"Carl Petersen, a candidate running for school board and a parent, said he asked for a public records request of the number of disruptive parent letters and received redacted notices of 486 emails involving them. 'There is no specific data for these letters,' he said.

Petersen spoke of a parent at an affiliated charter school who received a disruptive parent letter because she asked too many questions about whether the school was following proper procedures and complying with the Brown Act."

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Why the shine is off the charter school movement

Posted by · October 27, 2016 8:49 AM

Pushback in Los Angeles

The exposure of the secret plan by billionaire Eli Broad’s Foundation to expand charters so that half of Los Angeles students would attend them, drew outrage and national attention. It also energized a pushback movement that continues to grow.

Karen Wolfe and Carl Petersen, parent activists and bloggers, regularly report on the problems with charter schools in the area. Wolfe provides updates through her psconnectnow blog and Petersen regularly blogs for K-12 News. Petersen’s recent series on the financial scandals at El Camino High School asked hard questions about the lack of oversight provided by the Los Angeles School Board. Petersen is running for a seat on the board in part to ensure greater oversight of charters.

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Carl Petersen: The Shocking Decision by the LAUSD Not to Renew Five Charter Schools

Posted by · October 27, 2016 8:36 AM

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Carl Petersen is a candidate for the Los Angeles Unified School Board in 2017. He is also a close observer of school board meetings and a strong supporter of public schools.

In this post, he describes the last school board meeting, where five charters were not renewed. Three of them were part of the Fethullah Gulen charter chain called Magnolia (in Los Angeles), and the two others were Celerity charters. This was quite a shocker for the charters involved because the LAUSD has a long record of nearly automatic renewal of all charters

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LAUSD Loses Over 6000 Students to Charters in One Vote - Some Charters Get Slapped, Too

Posted by · October 22, 2016 9:37 PM

For the evening session, we parents were only allowed one public comment for the entire meeting even though there were nine agenda items. Carl focused on details of El Camino and the harassment he has been subjected to since blogging about them. There was a collective, audible cringe from El Camino supporters when he approached the podium.

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No action from charter school board as lavish spending concerns loom

Posted by · September 17, 2016 7:28 AM

"Carl Petersen, a candidate running for the LAUSD Board of Education, argued during public comments Friday that the investigative report 'should be open to the public' since public funds are being used.

He also argued that the Oracle report should not have been discussed in closed session Friday since it wasn’t specifically listed on the agenda."

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