Los Angeles: Board Member Shares Secret Information with Charter Lobbyists First
Jack Covey, a regular reader and contributor, posted the following comment about the latest revelation from blogger Michael Kohlhaas in Los Angeles. Kohlhaas (which may be a pseudonym) somehow gained access to a treasure trove of emails between the Green Dot charter chain and the California Charter Schools Association, as well as between these entities and public figures like school board members. He has published a small number of these emails, and he continues to drop them like bombs (think emails from Wikileaks). What we are learning from these data dumps (drip, drip, drip) is that certain school board members and public officials were more loyal to the charter industry than to the children and public schools of Los Angeles.
Covey writes:
Blogger and L.A. political gadfly Michael Kohlhaas shares confidential emails detailing how CCSA’s Cassy Horton was only one of two people who where provided with the text of (then-indicted-&-future-felon) LAUSD Board Member Ref Rodriguez’s LAUSD board resolution pertaining to charter school oversight, with Horton being provided that by none other than Ref himself.
Mind you, as detailed in Horton’s email, only two people were provided Ref’s board resolution:
Dr. Richard Vladovic, LAUSD Board Member
AND
Cassie Horton of CCSA (California Charter Schools Association lobbyist)
AND
Cassie Horton of CCSA (California Charter Schools Association lobbyist)
Not the five other board members
Not the LAUSD Charter Schools Division (CSD)
Not UTLA (Perish the thought!)
At this point, more private emails show that CCSA’s CONTINUE READING: Los Angeles: Board Member Shares Secret Information with Charter Lobbyists First | Diane Ravitch's blog
