Executive Director Blog

Charter Schools Iced, Los Angeles Teachers Win Bids To Run New Schools
by Paul Abowd | Wed, 02/24/2010 - 5:01pm

Teachers packed a February 23 school board meeting and rallied after winning bids to run 29 district schools. Yesterday’s competition is just the first round of what promises to be a titanic fight between charter operators and union-backed coalitions in Los Angeles as 250 district schools will be opened to outside bids in the next several years. 

Charter school companies in Los Angeles were licking their chopslast summer when the school board gave outside managers a chance to operate 36 schools next year.

Eva Moskowitz has special access to Schools Chancellor Klein - and support others can only dream of
Juan Gonzalez - News
Thursday, February 25th 2010, 4:00 AM

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Eva Moskowitz and Joel Klein share a laugh last year.
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Schools Chancellor Joel Klein often lauds a small group of Harlem charter schools founded by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz.

 Teachers File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama Administration's School "Turnaround" Plan.

Teachers Unite stands in solidarity with CORE in Chicago! What can we learn from them?

http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/teachers-file-racial-discrimination-suit-against-obama-administrations-school-“turnaround”-p

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