K-12 News Network | Speak Up and Be Heard! Attend the LAUSD School Board Meeting and Reassert the Will of the Voters

K-12 News Network | Speak Up and Be Heard! Attend the LAUSD School Board Meeting and Reassert the Will of the Voters:

Speak Up and Be Heard! Attend the LAUSD School Board Meeting and Reassert the Will of the Voters

admin October 28, 2013 Educators, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School Districts 0

Guest op-ed by Ellen Lubic, educator and longtime Los Angeles resident. She is founder of Joining Forces for Education.

We Must Stop This!
Join me and other Los Angeles residents, Tuesday, October 29, 2013, at 9 AM at 333 South Beaudry St. in downtown LA — and I would hope to see hundreds of parents, teachers, and others in line.

It is not only disheartening, but it is downright alarming when our Mayor joins forces with elite and powerful law firms, with PR firms, with major businesses who profit off us all, with the billionaires who are fighting to take over public schools and public education for investment opportunities, in order to retain a mediocre Superintendent of Schools, John Deasy, who has made so many egregious mistakes even beyond the Billion Dollar iPad fiasco.  Anyone with a track record such as Deasy’s would never have lasted this long in the private sector.

After a recent huge vote of 91% NO CONFIDENCE by LAUSD teachers it is only reasonable to think the Board of Education, whom We the People elected, would represent the outrage and direction of the greater community which elected them, to NOT SIGN another contract to keep this man on and to give him even more time to run the District into the ground, into bankruptcy, as he is doing. His salary, and all the budget line items he suggests and approves, are paid for by the People, not by Broad, nor Gates, nor any of the self-appointed billionaire movers and shakers who are attempting to destroy LAUSD and turn it into LA Charter District.

Garcetti was not elected to run the public schools, but he is now following in the footsteps of his predecessor Villaraigosa who brought in billionaire donations to our local elections to try to get their Charter supporter candidates placed in what they then saw as a position of power and support for their boy, Deasy. That would have been the coup they needed and they would have backed a strong Board.

But since that failed them and Ratliff and Zimmer beat the big money choices, now they and their PR experts spin the tale to excoriate the School Board 

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