Speaking even more truth to Parent Revolution plutocrat power
First published on @TCFKSM on June 19, 2013
"The resolution by board member Steve Zimmer requires the district to independently verify the signatures and how they're gathered by Parent Revolution, the group that helps to organize parents in efforts to take over schools. The district will also increase the amount and types of information available, such as an analysis of five years of school data and the types of reforms attempted in the past." — Barbara Jones, Daily News
The poverty pimps and privatization pushers at the plutocrat funded Parent Revolution are a little bit rattled right now. After their corporate drive by at Los Angeles' Weigand Elementary resulted in 21 of 22 teachers departing in solidarity with their outstanding principal who was targeted by gunman Austin, the local press and others took notice and were critical. Even the Nonprofit Quarterlytook issue with Parent Revolution's unsavory tactics. Professor Diane Ravitch's cogent critiques of Parent Revolution have been so effective, that Ben Austin attacked her on Huffington Post, and now they've created a blog to "debunk" the esteemed education historian's factual dismantling of their astroturf organization.
Parent Revolution was totally caught off guard when Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) Steve
"The resolution by board member Steve Zimmer requires the district to independently verify the signatures and how they're gathered by Parent Revolution, the group that helps to organize parents in efforts to take over schools. The district will also increase the amount and types of information available, such as an analysis of five years of school data and the types of reforms attempted in the past." — Barbara Jones, Daily News
The poverty pimps and privatization pushers at the plutocrat funded Parent Revolution are a little bit rattled right now. After their corporate drive by at Los Angeles' Weigand Elementary resulted in 21 of 22 teachers departing in solidarity with their outstanding principal who was targeted by gunman Austin, the local press and others took notice and were critical. Even the Nonprofit Quarterlytook issue with Parent Revolution's unsavory tactics. Professor Diane Ravitch's cogent critiques of Parent Revolution have been so effective, that Ben Austin attacked her on Huffington Post, and now they've created a blog to "debunk" the esteemed education historian's factual dismantling of their astroturf organization.
Parent Revolution was totally caught off guard when Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) Steve
Using the Los Angeles school privatization pushers' own propaganda against themselves
First published on @TCFKSM on June 19, 2013
"Several studies of Los Angeles schools showed substantial gains from class size reduction. One found that smaller classes increased reading scores by 9.5%, math scores by 13.9% and language scores by 14.5%, with double these gains for "high need" students. Two other controlled studies also show significant gains in Los Angeles, with effect sizes that increased the longer the child remained in smaller classes, and gains that persisted into higher grades." — Leonie Haimson, Executive Director, Class Size Matters
The illustrious Leonie Haimson did overtime in preparing an amicus research brief for a school district all the way across the country from her New York City. Later that week she sent me and other activists a heads up on a poll released by a newly formed grouping of Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC) members. At first I didn't understand the bar graphs because they were so confusing. Leonie patiently pointed out that the graphs actually supported our cause, in other words the
"Several studies of Los Angeles schools showed substantial gains from class size reduction. One found that smaller classes increased reading scores by 9.5%, math scores by 13.9% and language scores by 14.5%, with double these gains for "high need" students. Two other controlled studies also show significant gains in Los Angeles, with effect sizes that increased the longer the child remained in smaller classes, and gains that persisted into higher grades." — Leonie Haimson, Executive Director, Class Size Matters
The illustrious Leonie Haimson did overtime in preparing an amicus research brief for a school district all the way across the country from her New York City. Later that week she sent me and other activists a heads up on a poll released by a newly formed grouping of Nonprofit Industrial Complex (NPIC) members. At first I didn't understand the bar graphs because they were so confusing. Leonie patiently pointed out that the graphs actually supported our cause, in other words the 
