LAUSD District 3 race: 5 challengers seek to end Tamar Galatzan’s reign
The father of five decided to run after spending two days at LAUSD headquarters fighting with district lawyers for the services two of his children need because they suffer from disorders in the autistic spectrum. While campus-based educators agreed Petersen’s children needed the support, he said, district higher-ups didn’t agree.
“During those two days, I said, ‘Something has to change; parents need a say,’ and I decided I was going to step up and run,” Petersen said.
Petersen also believes the cure to many of LAUSD’s woes is more local control. But rather than break up the district, he said, LAUSD needs to set clear expectations and let educators decide how they’re best achieved.
“You have to let teachers do their thing. They’re professionals; that’s why we hired them,” said Petersen, who heads up logistics for a company that manufactures surveillance cameras.
Read the full story at http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20150214/lausd-district-3-race-5-challengers-seek-to-end-tamar-galatzans-reign
Packed stage, empty house at District 3 ‘game show’ debate
Posted on February 13, 2015 12:28 pm
Carl Petersen
Petersen spent a lot of the night criticizing Galatzan. He said the board failed to successfully oversee Deasy, was strongly against the iPad program — even belittling it at times...He also said teacher jail was overused.
On the issue of teacher vs. reform, he said he would be a representative of parents. He was the only candidate to bring up MiSiS, the district’s troubled computer system, and criticized the district for going forward with it when MiSiS was “not ready for prime-time.”
Read the full story at http://laschoolreport.com/packed-stage-empty-house-district-3-game-show-debate/
Bad LAUSD experience led Carl Petersen to school board race
Posted on February 2, 2015 1:19 pm by Craig Clough
If Carl Petersen does not win the crowded LA Unified school board race for District 3, it certainly won’t be because he was not aggressive enough.
He has been relentlessly hammering incumbent Tamar Galatzan for months on Twitter, Facebook, in press releases and the comments section of LA School Report. Long before most of the other four challengers declared their candidacy, Petersen was calling out Galatzan for every fault he perceived, on issues great, small...
Read the full story at http://laschoolreport.com/bad-lausd-experience-led-carl-petersen-school-board-race/
Getting Back To LAUSD: Careful Choices
Guest post by Ellen Lubic, Executive Director of Joining Forces 4Ed.
Funding Change Upsets Porter Ranch Parents
Porter Ranch Community School Expected to Receive More than $240,000 as a Pilot School; New Funding Formula Cut Those Funds
By Matt Thacker on June 4, 2014.
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"The regulations for implementing the new formula were approved in January, and Galatzan and LAUSD officials maintain they were not aware until then that pilot funding would be cut. Carl Petersen, who is running against Galatzan in next year’s election, said LAUSD never should have provided funding estimates to the school community when they knew changes were coming."
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http://www.postperiodical.com/funding-change-upsets-porter-ranch-parents/
Two Candidates File to Seek Galatzan School Board Seat
Posted on April 24, 2014 11:30 am by Michael Janofsky
"Petersen’s candidacy represents his first run for public office.
'I’ve been thinking about it for a year,' he said in an interview, explaining that his prime motivation was encountering obstacles in his quest for help for two of his daughters with autism.
'It’s such a bureaucratic process with all the hoops they make you jump through,' he said. 'There’s a feeling throughout the district that the board doesn’t listen to parents. You see it in Breakfast in the Classroom, the iPads. They have a deaf ear to parents. Parents are speaking, but the board doesn’t listen.'
Petersen, 46, said his interest in running was not necessarily in protest of Galatzan. Not initially, anyway.
'At first it was more general,' he said. 'But then, I attended one of her community meetings about the budget. After listening to her, I was not impressed.'"
Read the full story at
http://laschoolreport.com/carl-peterson-elizabeth-badger-seek-galatzan-school-board-seat