Repenning Is The Charter Candidate in LAUSD’s Runoff For Board District 5
Jackie Goldberg is on record, with great, deep, theoretical and experiential evidence, for not being “against charters”. Do listen to her nuanced and knowledgeable explanation here. Given the opportunity to elect someone with such practical understanding of Education not to mention education politics, there can be no excuse to reject the leadership of Jackie Goldberg. May 14 is the date every voter in LAUSD5 must turn out. Find your polling place here.
But if Goldberg is not against charters, is her candidacy favored by those who would privatize public education? Positively not. She has no record of campaign donations from folks associated with the privatization of education, not during the primary campaign or in this runoff:
Her opponent, however, repudiated charter money in the primary to some degree, conspicuously returning donations from KIPP’s Marcia Aaron, Celerity’sNadia Shaiq, and the online charter chain Options For Youth’s Bob Morales. Even while a minimum of 6% (from a very conservative association-count) of her private donations came from charter-associates. These included a fund-raiser and two maxed-out donations from YPI’s Dixon Slingerland and family, as well as thousands more from charter board members, staff and ideologues such as: Bill CONTINUE READING:Repenning Is The Charter Candidate in LAUSD’s Runoff For Board District 5 – redqueeninla
