What Do We Want?
When Do We Want Her?
When The Vote-By-Mail ballots drop next week.
Or At-The-Polls on March 5, 2019
Or At-The-Polls on March 5, 2019
Marches aren’t particularly reasoned or reasoning affairs. There’s a lot of shouting and assertions amidst a dearth of nuance.
Why should voters in a school district that’s approximately 3/4 Latino vote for a grey-haired, white-skinned, LGBTQ, retired State Legislator? That is:
Why Do We Want Her?
Jackie Goldberg has a prodigious knowledge of Education Politics. She can talk just about anybody under the table with State bill numbers and legislative strategies and nuanced understanding of where education legislation helps and who is opposed to it and why and how to move things along. That goes for locally as well as in Sacramento. She understands what underlies esoteric funding schemes and shortfalls. She comprehends what drives and motivates teachers and students and communities. And Unions. And Union members.
It is critical to flip the open LAUSD5 seat away from Charter interests and back to the Public’s. There is no way that had Jackie Goldberg been appointedto fill Board District’s 5’s disgraced charter-representative Rodriguez’s seat that the Kabuki of January’s historic strike would have been fully enacted. The tremendous and valuable gains for public education that were assuredly won, CONTINUE READING: What Do We Want? – redqueeninla
