FINALLY MAKING A STAND AGAINST LAUSD IN THE OAH
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For years the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has been running roughshod over teachers, who they have succeeded in removing from their livelihood as professional tenured teachers as if they had no rights under collective bargaining or to due process of law. With the Miramonte Child Abuse Scandal, matter have only gotten worst as the removal of teachers without honest cause has reached adeasying pace. Today in Courtroom #9 at the Office of Administrative Hearings at 320 W. 6th Street in Downtown Los Angeles just maybe the first step was taken by Attorney Ronald Lapekas to finally hold LAUSD responsible to the rule of law - even for teachers.
Over the last few years as public education budgets have been drastically cut, those in power at LAUSD and their masters have targeted more and more innocent teachers for removal from their jobs based on false charges,
REJECTING THE COMMON CORE by Anthony Scott
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On Perdaily, there have been many articles about the privatization of our educational system. As a teacher in California, I want to encourage you to reject our states adoption of the common core standards as another effort to privatize our education system. While our current system can be improved, this is not being addressed by common core. What is at issue is how the common core gives two companies an unregulated monopoly on our education.
First, the common core standards were not created by an unbiased group of experienced and