Since Feb 2018 The CCSA And The LA Advocacy Council Have Been Scheming To Get Jose Cole-Gutierrez — LAUSD’s Chief Charter School Watchdog FIRED

At Least Since February 2018 The California Charter Schools Association And The Los Angeles Advocacy Council Have Been Scheming To Get Jose Cole-Gutierrez — LAUSD’s Chief Charter School Watchdog — Fired 

Since Feb 2018 The CCSA And The LA Advocacy Council Have Been Scheming To Get Jose Cole-Gutierrez

AT LEAST SINCE FEBRUARY 2018 THE CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION AND THE LOS ANGELES ADVOCACY COUNCIL HAVE BEEN SCHEMING TO GET JOSE COLE-GUTIERREZ — LAUSD’S CHIEF CHARTER SCHOOL WATCHDOG — FIRED — AND THEY HAVE BEEN SCHEMING WITH MONICA GARCIA MOSTLY — AND KELLY GONEZ AND AUSTIN BEUTNER — AND FORMERLY REF RODRIGUEZ — THEY HAVE GONE SO FAR AS TO COMPILE LISTS OF POTENTIAL REPLACEMENTS FOR COLE-GUTIERREZ — AND DISCUSSED HOW THEY WOULD LIKE HIS REPLACEMENT TO OVERSEE THEIR OPERATIONS — THE FOXES DON’T WANT TO GUARD THE HEN HOUSE BUT THEY WILL BE HAPPY TO HAND PICK THE GUARDS — AND GARCIA HAS ACTUALLY ADVISED THEM ON WHAT KIND OF EVIDENCE THE BOARD WOULD NEED TO HAVE IN ORDER TO MOVE TO FIRE HIM — WHICH SEEMS LIKE AN EXTRAORDINARILY UNPROFESSIONAL WAY FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO TREAT PROFESSIONAL STAFF

In June I received a massive set of really revelatory emails from Green Dot Charter Schools via the California Public Records Act. There’s a summary of what’s happened since then in this linked post. I have been working on organizing them to publish and at the same time telling stories based on them, and today’s post is another installment in that project.

The California Charter Schools Association sponsors a group of about 20 local charter school leaders, called the Los Angeles Advocacy Council, which meets regularly to plot and plan various pro-charter lobbying activities in LAUSD and a few other districts.1 The LAAC’s workings have hitherto been deeply buried. They don’t issue press releases for the most part, and they’re not really written about very much. As of right now, this blog is the top Google hit for them.

One thing revealed by these emails is that the LAAC is in no sense an egalitarian institution. There are about 20 members, but there is also an inner leadership group, consisting of Cristina de Jesus of Green Dot, Emilio Pack of STEM Preparatory Academy, and a bunch of CCSA flacks.2 This behind-the-scenes cabal shapes the activities of the group through weekly “check-ins,”3 at which they discuss their progress on their most cherished goals, which they call “North CONTINUE READING: At Least Since February 2018 The California Charter Schools Association And The Los Angeles Advocacy Council Have Been Scheming To Get Jose Cole-Gutierrez — LAUSD’s Chief Charter School Watchdog — Fired