On September 20, join educators, parents, students, and community members to tell the billionaires: “Hands Off Our Schools!”
Public education is facing an escalating attack led by billionaires like Eli Broad. Broad is willing to give millions to the arts but fights against more funding for schools. He publicly supported the recent Prop. 30 school funding measure but secretly funded political groups in an attempt to defeat it. The last time Broad meddled in LAUSD, we got former superintendent John Deasy’s failed leadership, millions lost during the MiSiS Crisis, and the iPad scandal that led to an FBI investigation.
Now Broad is planning to dismantle public education by taking 50% of our students out of LAUSD and putting them in unregulated, non-union charters that don’t play by the same rules as other schools. Losing 50% of our enrollment would trigger a severe loss in funding for crucial resources and programs for our students.
Broad funded similar plans in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and his “reform” there has resulted in massive inequities and civil rights violations for students, as segregation has been reinforced and special education students have been left behind. Schoolhouse Live:
Public education is facing an escalating attack led by billionaires like Eli Broad. Broad is willing to give millions to the arts but fights against more funding for schools. He publicly supported the recent Prop. 30 school funding measure but secretly funded political groups in an attempt to defeat it. The last time Broad meddled in LAUSD, we got former superintendent John Deasy’s failed leadership, millions lost during the MiSiS Crisis, and the iPad scandal that led to an FBI investigation.
Now Broad is planning to dismantle public education by taking 50% of our students out of LAUSD and putting them in unregulated, non-union charters that don’t play by the same rules as other schools. Losing 50% of our enrollment would trigger a severe loss in funding for crucial resources and programs for our students.
Broad funded similar plans in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and his “reform” there has resulted in massive inequities and civil rights violations for students, as segregation has been reinforced and special education students have been left behind. Schoolhouse Live:
