LAUSD - The Making of a Trojan Horse by Mark Hemphill (LAUSD - La realización de un caballo de Troya por Mark Hemphill)
(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)
If you're expecting a retelling of Homer's Iliad here, you're going to be disappointed. For that I'd suggest the local library where any number of translations are available to help you wade through all ten thousand ponderously repetitive lines. Or maybe you could rent that awful movie with Brad Pitt. No, this is all rather about supposed reformers in public education, the politicians who support such well publicized reformers, and the "liberal press" which stands behind them. But I promise you that we'll get back to that Trojan Horse before it's all over.
Let's start briefly here with statement about the political party which always boasts of the need for reform in
The Best Defense Against LAUSD Corruption Might Just Be The California False Claims Act (La mejor defensa contra la Corrupción del LAUSD podría ser la de California Ley de Reclamos Falsos)
(Mensaje se repite en Español)
(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)
The problem with most opposition to the corrupt practices of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is that it exclusively manifests itself in responding to the latest outrageous behavior of LAUSD in a never ending series of improper action put forth by the district, instead of taking a more proactive approach that requires these brazen morally compromised folks who run the 2nd largest school district in the country to respond and be held accountable for their actions.
- The new Belmont Learning Center was built on an irremediable $350 million toxic waste dump, where the O'Melveny and Meyers Law Firm represented both LAUSD and the developer in a clear conflict of interest that only avoided massive liability for the firm by former Mayor Riordan getting the damages element of the prima facie case knocked out by getting
