Important endorsements for Monica Ratliff for LAUSD Board of Education – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

Important endorsements for Monica Ratliff for LAUSD Board of Education – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER:

Important endorsements for Monica Ratliff for LAUSD Board of Education

MAY 17, 2013 BY RDSATHENE LEAVE A COMMENT

Professor Diane Ravitch — Monica Ratliff for Los Angeles School Board

There is a big race in Los Angeles on May 21. It is a run-off that will determine who controls the board.

There are two candidates.

One–Monica Ratliff–is a working classroom teacher, the other worked on the staff of corporate-friendly Mayor Villaraigosa and has no education experience.

The teachers’ union supported both candidates, hedging their bets.

The mayor’s candidate has the support of the super-elite, the billionaires and their surrogates who don’t like public education, disparage teachers, and defend the status quo. That candidate will have a campaign chest of at least $1 million. Mayor Bloomberg of New York City gave $350,000. Rhee gave $100,000. Eli Broad gave