Outflanking CTA From The Left: How Anti-Racist Demands Are Captured By Privateers
The death of George Floyd in custody of the Minneapolis City Police has roiled our nation. There can be no tolerance of murder, which is all the more abominable at the hands of authority. As citizens everywhere rise – and continue to rise – to protest injustice, and we collectively contemplate systemic and institutional racism, prejudice and bias, our school community reflects these politics and the raising of consciousness in microcosm.
On the last day of its fiscal year, the nation’s largest school district with a democratically elected school board (LAUSD BOE) voted to decimate its school police department (LASPD).
But What Happened?
During the first of what became two sequential meetings focused on LASPD, the school board debated three policy resolutions (from 8:12.45m) examining and limiting LASPD operations. The board failed to muster majority agreement on any directive, and their prerogative was preempted by the Superintendent’s personally selected Task Force on School Safety (@8:09 and Fig. 2 below). Then the following week in an end-run around CONTINUE READING: Outflanking CTA From The Left: How Anti-Racist Demands Are Captured By Privateers – Los Angeles Education Examiner
