tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post8117427131610189545..comments2023-07-03T05:58:37.124-07:00Comments on THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Duncan’s Shaky House of SticksThe Perimeter Primatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619173438763495716noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-59600551139165486332009-07-01T22:42:40.559-07:002009-07-01T22:42:40.559-07:00And here's an LA Unified HS with the District&...And here's an LA Unified HS with the District's biggest campus, a real prize, in the midst of a vicious fight with Charterizers.<br /><br />This time, the Charterizer/Privatizers want THE ENTIRE SCHOOL, rather than just a piece of it (which is the Charters' usual strategy).<br /><br />Even Sacha Baron Cohen is involved in this strange tangle.<br /><br />Clearly, the much of District leadership is down on the Charter movement (although there are still too many many Charter supporters and moles at high levels), and is trying to hold it back somewhat, but the charter-monster has teeth, and bites. <br /><br />For Birmingham High, this one's for all the marbles:<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-charter1-2009jul01,0,2937592.storyniktohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13219069038917729013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-19634924565809145392009-07-01T12:06:32.290-07:002009-07-01T12:06:32.290-07:00I told you so!
http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com...I told you so!<br /><br />http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2009/06/civic-committee-stabs-duncan-in-back.html<br /><br />"He toiled faithfully on their plantation for 10 years before going to D.C. to serve as Obama's education chief. He did all their bidding without question, closing dozens of schools in under-served communities to make way for gentrification and privatizing much of the system.<br /><br />But now the Chicago Civic Committee, the city's ruling elite, has turned on Arne Duncan and in a report released yesterday, titled "Still Left Behind," attacked the Duncan-led Chicago school reform as an "abysmal" failure. Ironically, it was the Civic Committee that designed and financed the Mayor's Renaissance 2010 plan--the very plan that Duncan was hired to implement and enforce."<br /><br />Read the rest!!!<br /><br />http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2009/06/civic-committee-stabs-duncan-in-back.htmlThe Perimeter Primatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12619173438763495716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-91614615265507189742009-06-25T20:09:08.423-07:002009-06-25T20:09:08.423-07:00Good research, Nikto!
That Accelerated charter o...Good research, Nikto! <br /><br />That Accelerated charter outfit was reported in 2007 as defaulting on a $9.9 million loan from LAUSD -- I can't find any updates on that online at all. Interesting about Ivy Academia, which I've only seen previously on the receiving end of glowing coverage.<br /><br />(When will the press learn: DON'T GUSH!? I wondered this while reading the New Yorker profile of Angelo Mozilo, disgraced head of disgraced Countrywide Mortgage -- which quotes some of his previous glowing press coverage.)carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08127336930949752636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-66223192852579804212009-06-25T14:17:35.239-07:002009-06-25T14:17:35.239-07:00It's a big day today in the LA Times for Educa...It's a big day today in the LA Times for Education.<br /><br />Eli Broad can't be too happy with today's reading. The following editorial contains some good nuggets of reality. Some efforts are made to smooth things over, but to me, the clear implication at the end of this editorial is that the 9th Grade Green Dot Academies will re-train the kidz to be perfect little drones for the later grades.<br /><br />Uh huh.<br /><br />Also implies (to ME, from what I have actually seen happen), is the idea that certain (incorrigible) kidz will be culled in the 9th grade & dumped back into Public School, while "better" drones will be actively recruited as Charter replacements.<br /><br />That is a typical Charter school modus operandi.<br /><br />But... YOU decide.<br /><br />Here it is:<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-locke25-2009jun25,0,1915462.storyniktohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13219069038917729013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-252151970832615412009-06-25T14:07:32.916-07:002009-06-25T14:07:32.916-07:00More tawdry goings-on in the world of Charter Scho...More tawdry goings-on in the world of Charter Schools. This is from the LA Times article, 6-25, <br />(4th story down):<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-briefs25-2009jun25,0,6823903,full.story<br /><br />==================================<br />LOS ANGELES-San Fernando Valley<br /><br />Charter school is <br />searched in probe<br /><br />Investigators fanned out amid multiple campuses of Ivy Academia, a high-performing charter school in the San Fernando Valley, and executed search warrants as part of an investigation by the district attorney's Public Integrity Division, authorities said Wednesday.<br /><br />It was not clear what the target was or what crimes are being investigated. Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, would say only that a series of warrants were executed Tuesday morning "as part of an ongoing investigation."<br /><br />Jerry Thornton, inspector general for the Los Angeles Unified School District, said his office assisted in the investigation. Tatyana Berkovich, founder and president of Ivy Academia, said she didn't know what the investigators were after. "We are confident that any inquiries that they have will showcase what a superior educational program we have," she said.<br /><br />In 2007, Thornton's office issued an audit critical of the school's accounting and payroll practices, and said the not-for-profit charter was commingling funds with other, for-profit ventures. The report said the school promised to change some practices but disagreed that others were problematic.<br /> -- Mitchell Landsbergniktohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13219069038917729013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-66037244522638741882009-06-25T13:59:24.048-07:002009-06-25T13:59:24.048-07:00A Los Angeles Charter High School Valedictorian ru...A Los Angeles Charter High School Valedictorian runs into the inescapable reality of Charter Schools:<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-valedictorian25-2009jun25,0,3843783.story<br /><br />And of course the inevitable...<br /><br />"...in recent years, what was once a collaborative environment rich with teacher and parent input has given way to top-heavy management that is not responsive to parents and students and is no longer transparent in its decision-making."<br /><br />"We, as students, we feel like we are not being heard," Ponce (the student valedictorian) said. "The administration treats us like we're ignorant."<br /><br />Sound familiar?<br /><br />There's much more at the link.<br /><br />Enjoy!<br /><br />(And God Bless that wonderful student, and her cool blue hair!)<br /><br />It may be easy to fool some of the young---But NOT the ones <br />who are awake.niktohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13219069038917729013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-65944273124832982882009-06-24T12:14:22.142-07:002009-06-24T12:14:22.142-07:00These "lies" that you are trying to poin...These "lies" that you are trying to point out don't seem very dramatic, or significant.<br /><br />For example your first quote says that Chicago turnarounds prove what's possible, and then your "refutation" quote says that the new schools perform on par with traditional schools. What kind of a refutation is that? The quotes barely speak to one another. <br /><br />Likewise your point about only 12 students being enrolled 3 years later at Dodge elementary seems frivolous. 12 out of how many? After 3 years, 3 full grades of the students will have necessarily left. You give us no point of comparison. How many students were the same after one year? (a much more meaningful number). How many students were the same at similar school that had no intervention after 3 years? That a school has high turnover after 3 years doesn't on the face of it tell us anything. <br /><br />You seem to be grasping at straws here.Deweyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12478917865454815265noreply@blogger.com