The Educated Guess Fight brewing over new controls on charter schools

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Fight brewing over new controls on charter schools

Posted in Charters

The chairwoman of the Assembly Education Committee is citing embezzlement charges against the operators of a Southern California charter school organization as evidence why her two charter school accountability bills should become law.
The bills are sponsored by Democrat Julia Brownley of Santa Monica. They are now in the Senate, which must decide whether new laws could prevent the type of alleged fraud by the husband-wife creators of Ivy Academia charters, and if not, whether additional financial oversight and restrictions on charters are needed anyway.
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By John Fensterwald on June 22nd, 2010

Key to Larry Aceves’ win is in the mail

Posted in 2010 elections

A secret to Larry Aceves’ surprise win in the primary election race for superintendent of public instruction? Slate mailers, the pay-to-play election campaign mailings run by political operatives.
Senior reporter Louis Freedberg of California Watch cites an analysis by veteran Republican commentator Tony Quinn in the California Morning Report(subscription-based) that Aceves’ name appeared in a key Democratic- and most Republican-targeted slate mailings. That was a smart move for a largely unknown, sharply outspent candidate running in the one non-partisan race for statewide office.
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