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John Milbauer March 5, 2013 at 08:14 pm
Lisa......and anyone else who will read this......My concern about this posting is that we depend on…Read More Hollywood Patch to give us news. If people want to post their opinions, so be it. But an internet site that purports to be a news site, has no business allowing a headline with an article to run that advances anyone's candidacy. It is just not ethical journalism nor is it appropriate.
Lisa Chapman March 5, 2013 at 06:42 pm
I also have to say that I really resent Mr. Zimmer's comments that Bloomberg's donation to reform…Read More candidates is an attempt to "buy" Mr. Zimmer's seat. Mr. Bloomberg has seen drastic reform efforts work in New York, and believes, with a majoriy of others, that this can happen in Los Angeles as well. When you are anti-reform, anti-charter, and anti choice, then you are not the right choice for the LAUSD board. Tiem has come, and is long overdue for change. Stand with you, Mr. Zimmer? I believe we will stand for ALL LAUSD students needs being met, and we will stand for imminent reform of LAUSD and their fiscal ineptitude, we will stand against the all too powerful UTLA union that only serves to stagnate change and reform in this system. We do not stand for the status quo. You are the status quo, and it is time that you leave us.
Lisa Chapman March 5, 2013 at 05:29 pm
John...you are absolutely correct. But Steve Zimmer has no good record to run on, so this is what he…Read More is reduced to doing....shameful. Kate Anderson all the way...let's reform this wretched school board....
LA Momma March 5, 2013 at 01:32 am
I met Steve Zimmer a few months ago when he was feeding homeless kids. There was no press, no major…Read More donors around, much less parents - these were throw away kids and Steve was there for them. I think that says a LOT about his character and how you can expect him to care about *all*of the students. Not jus a few, not just those whose parents complain the loudest, but those for whom NO ONE speaks. Plus, he was a teacher. If goodness and public service don't earn your vote, then public education is really in trouble.
Deborah Lashever March 4, 2013 at 05:25 am
Read this about why billionaires form other cities are funding Kate Anderson:…Read More
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/los-angeles-public-education_b_2798894.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#.UTQc_h3Jamc.facebook
Lydia March 5, 2013 at 11:09 pm
-Special needs students are not being properly served at charters, especially here in the Westside.…Read More
- does or has Ms. Anderson ever acknowledge the students in the pockets of poverty that exists over here?
- culturally and socio-economically diverse students should have fair and equal access to a quality education.
- it's not a choice when you have WIN a spot in a lottery for a child' s seat at a school....
- we aren't going anywhere. Our homes are here. Even when people do not see us it does not mean we cease to exist.
lydia ponce March 5, 2013 at 11:07 pm
-Special needs students are not being properly served at charters, especially here in the Westside.…Read More
- does or has Ms. Anderson ever acknowledge the students in the pockets of poverty that exists over here?
- culturally and socio-economically diverse students should have fair and equal access to a quality education.
- it's not a choice when you have WIN a spot in a lottery for a child' s seat at a school....
- we aren't going anywhere. Our homes are here. Even when people do not see us it does not mean we cease to exist.
Deborah Lashever March 3, 2013 at 08:39 pm
It is a crime that SMC--the state's best Community College--that successfully funnels the most…Read More students into the UC system-- has such HUGE cuts! BAD planning!
The sequester is BS! They KNEW it would come to this. It is their way of making these drastic cuts without anyone to really take the blame. TOTAL political CRAP.
Sonja Luchini March 3, 2013 at 09:22 pm
I'm condensing a comment I made on another site about this election:
"Steve Zimmer is an…Read More honest man who has worked with his constituents – many who have (or provide supports for) students with special needs, English Language Learners, Foster and homeless youth. When he realized, by looking at data, that charters were not doing a proper job of serving these students, he suggested wisely that more oversight was needed. In order to provide more data, we need information.
Oversight is not a bad word. Compliance is not a bad word. It’s his job to ensure that ALL children, not the select few that are “hand-picked” for “reform” efforts are provided an education with the supports they need. Charter schools tend to use exclusive and discriminatory enrollment practices. What little data we can access backs this up. Why the mayor would be angry with a school board member who is trying to create transparency and accountability to better serve his constituents is beyond me.
We will soon have the best school board that outside, special-interest money can buy. Whether it will be in the best interests of students and families, or those special interests remains to be seen. I'm not betting on it being too positive for our children, tho. Anyone who is being backed by the Coalition for School Reform is NOT for ALL children as those backers do NOT support ALL children in charters. It's a business, baby...and to succeed - they must weed.
Alan Latteri February 9, 2013 at 06:03 pm
It is definitely looking better. They should put a nice cafe there, with large outdoor dining area,…Read More dog friendly.
Richard Landers February 12, 2013 at 12:40 am
Last piece...
From Ms. Anderson’s perspective, the issue in the District 4 election is better…Read More schools, whatever their organizational structure. She doesn’t see charters as some kind of silver bullet but recognizes that they have proved that they can be part of the solution. Voters should look for candidates who support the changes that will give every child a good education, whether they attend a successful traditional middle school in Palms or a successful charter school in South Los Angeles.
I think LAUSD is broken and needs political leaders like Ms. Anderson who are prepared to embrace change. Ms. Roos thinks it is doing well and supports Mr. Zimmer and its other defenders. You be the judge.
Thanks for reading. Richard
Richard Landers February 12, 2013 at 12:40 am
Third of four...
In addition to urging Patch readers to take the time to get acquainted with the…Read More realities of public education beyond the Westside, I also want to protest the ad hominem attacks on Ms. Anderson and her supporters that are often made by anti-reformers. It is truly reprehensible to assert that the fact that Ms. Anderson has supporters who have contributed to her campaign is proof of evil intentions. I am a supporter of Ms. Anderson as are many of my friends. All of us are committed to public education – most of us grew up in it, many are personally active in supporting it – and I have not met a single individual in this group who favors “a fractious system that would divide the education of our children into "separate but equal" camps”. Yes, just like Mr. Zimmer’s supporters, all of us want good educations for our children. (Indeed, many of us tried – albeit unsuccessfully – to get our kids into the highly sought after Lab School at UCLA that Ms. Roos’s children attended.) Further, as citizens, and, in many cases, business people in Los Angeles, we are acutely aware that we have large stakes not just in our own children’s education but the education of all of children.
Richard Landers February 12, 2013 at 12:39 am
Second of 4...
I have been a volunteer and supporter of five or six different charter school…Read More organizations in non-Westside Los Angeles and my view of LAUSD is very different from that of UCLA Lab/Palms Middle and Mr. Zimmer. In the Los Angeles that these charter schools serve, there is no “white-lining of certain schools where only a certain slice of society is allowed to matriculate”, there are only poor immigrant families whose only choices are the charters or indisputably failed traditional LAUSD schools. These charter schools provide a superior education to as many families as they can, limited not by any cherry picking - academic, ethnic or otherwise - but only by the resource constraints imposed by people like Mr. Zimmer, who see change to the status quo as threatening.
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