4LAKids - : LA Times: “We'll be upfront about this: We consider Garcia a poor choice for the school board…” but we’re endorsing her anyway!

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: LA Times: “We'll be upfront about this: We consider Garcia a poor choice for the school board…” but we’re endorsing her anyway!:

LA Times: “We'll be upfront about this: We consider Garcia a poor choice for the school board…” but we’re endorsing her anyway!

by smf

THE TIMES' L.A. SCHOOL BOARD ENDORSEMENTS - LATIMES.COM HTTP://LAT.MS/VW4DPR

• Garcia’s a poor choice  …but she likes Deasy.

• Kate’s a politician who’s been ineffectual at changing policy she won’t be able to control on the board  ...but she likes Deasy.

• The Other Monica is a good teacher at a good school miles from the district she wants to  represent. 

 

Once again, the races pit allies of the teachers union against reform-backed candidates.

The Los Angeles Unified school board is seen meeting with parents, teachers and students earlier this year. In March, voters will choose board members for three of the seven school board seats. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press / February 15, 2013)

….When did the Board of Ed ever “meet with parents, teachers and students?”  They meet with each other and District staff.  Listening to public comment and not reacting is not ‘Meeting”.

February 15, 2013  ::  The teachers union once had a virtual lock on the Los Angeles Unified school board, and the results weren't pretty. Truly awful schools operated without accountability; the board worked harder to please teachers than to protect students. Today, with more reform-oriented members on the board — thanks to the support of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and like-minded organizations — the situation is very different. Schools are working harder than ever to improve. Charter schools have been welcomed with open arms.

Yet this still isn't the school board that L.A. Unified needs and deserves. At times, the reform movement is given to its own unproductive extremes. As a result, the board has switched from animosity toward charters to such a warm embrace that it fails to oversee them properly. A decade ago, the board did nothing for those disadvantaged students who were routinely channeled into