Mar 04 2013
LAWeekly: Eric Garcetti Flip-flops to Support Parent Trigger School Reform After Media Pressure
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti flip-flopped days before the March 5 primary election, embracing Parent Trigger, the dramatic law now spreading nationwide that lets disgusted parents take over bad schools through petition.
On February 15, when L.A. Weekly pressed the five top mayoral candidates for their positions on Parent Trigger, Wendy Greuel, Jan Perry, Kevin James and Emanuel Pleitez backed it. Garcetti, who is getting campaign help from UTLA, the powerful teachers union that hates Parent Trigger, said he wasn’t ready to back the law. Apparently, he’s evolved.
Garcetti changed his mind at an education summit sponsored by United Way of Greater Los Angeles, after L.A. Times columnist Jim Newton further pushed Garcetti on his position on the law.
Most teachers unions see the Parent Trigger law as a threat to their longtime powers because it lets parents take charge of disastrous public schools if those parents can get enough signatures from other fed-up parents at the school.
But it’s clear that parents want more power over anti-reform unions and school boards.
Education reformers are now happy as punch about Garcetti’s change of mind, although some folks are skeptical about Garcetti’s eleventh-hour change of heart, L.A. School Report explains.
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4 Responses to “LAWeekly: Eric Garcetti Flip-flops to Support Parent Trigger School Reform After Media Pressure”
I can’t tell you how disappointed I am in L.A. Weekly’s coverage of the forces at work in education in Los Angeles. I’m a sixth grade teacher currently teaching statistics to my students, who will be tested and judged — as will I and my school — by how well they can detect bias in samples and questions on the California Standards Test.
This article might be an excellent example to share with them.
“Most teachers unions see the Parent Trigger law as a threat to their longtime powers because it lets parents take charge of disastrous public schools…”
Really?
The parents don’t take charge after the Parent Trigger is pulled. The Charter Management Organizations do. And who funds them? Rupert Murdoch, Wal-Mart, Michael Bloomberg, etc.
Why? Because they care so much about the children?
Try asking some different questions. You’re getting the wrong answers.
WOW! This is Uprising?! What a HUGE disappointment. Why espouse Corporate America’s Mass-Media P.O.V. under the guise of “subversive” radio/media? THAT’S A LIE!
I AM SO DISAPPOINTED!! PLEASE GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT AND READ, READ, READ ! BEFORE WRITING, RESEARCH BEFORE YOU SAY OR REPEAT (PERICOS DE LOS MEDIOS CORPORATIVOS) WHAT YOU HEAR:
DIANE RAVITCH: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010)
NAOMI KLIEN: SHOCK DOCTRINE-READ AT LEAST THE CHAPTER ON HURRICANE KATRINA
CA TEACHER ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION, A.R.E. ON THE ATTACKS ON PUBLIC EDUCATION:
http://www.razaeducators.org/archives/Regeneracion_Vol1Issue2.pdf
I forgot to add to read this:
from rethinking schools:
http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/charter-schools-and-corporate-ed-reform/
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