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solidaridad: Echo Park Moms leading the way. Demand your right to vote! No more LAUSD privatization without representation!

solidaridad: Echo Park Moms leading the way. Demand your right to vote! No more LAUSD privatization without representation!

Echo Park Moms leading the way. Demand your right to vote! No more LAUSD privatization without representation!

First published in EchoParkPatch on 2001-05-10

"Supporters of the controversial [PSC] plan say it is part of a much-needed reform effort that takes decision-making out of the hands of bureaucrats and special interests and puts it in the hands of parents and the community." — Connie Llanos

Charter Voucher Charlatans Now Advocating AIG Style Derivatives
LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy and Tamar Galatzan — one of Philip Anschutz's preferred LAUSD Board Members — want to remove the last vestiges of democracy from an already undemocratic process that gives public schools away to private charter corporations.

There is now an online petition to sign if you think that removing the public advisory vote from the deceptively named Public School Choice resolution (PSC) is a move that disenfranchises and disempowers communities.

KEEP the Parent Advisory Vote, The Only Voice parents have in the CHOICE process

The first resistance to the removal of the community advisory vote was by non other than Echo Parque's very