Comments on: Anger, Frustration Evident as LAUSD Officials Meet Community https://www.laschoolreport.com/anger-frustration-evident-as-lausd-officials-meet-community/ What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District) Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:50:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Kim Kaufman https://www.laschoolreport.com/anger-frustration-evident-as-lausd-officials-meet-community/#comment-543 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:50:13 +0000 http://laschoolreport.com/?p=15793#comment-543 “One of the slides Reilly put up early in the presentation showed the decline of per-student spending by state since 2008, when the recession hit.”

Also, a decrease of 100,000 students since 2008 – now in charters. To the privatizers: Mission Accomplished! Public education is getting defunded and oue public money is being siphoned off into the private for-profit sector.

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By: Caroline Grannan https://www.laschoolreport.com/anger-frustration-evident-as-lausd-officials-meet-community/#comment-516 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:51:30 +0000 http://laschoolreport.com/?p=15793#comment-516 It’s not just a “union cry for more teachers.” This is an example of what I’ve pointed out before: LA School Report’s hostility to teachers, parents and public schools.

As even “reform” sector voices often admit, parents clamor for smaller classes. (The “reform” sector voices disdain that clamor when it comes from public school parents, while always, unfailingly sending their own children to high-end private schools whose proudest feature is small class sizes.)

To restate and re-emphasize: Parents, more than anyone, want “more teachers,” in the form of smaller classes for their kids.

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By: H Hong https://www.laschoolreport.com/anger-frustration-evident-as-lausd-officials-meet-community/#comment-515 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:15:31 +0000 http://laschoolreport.com/?p=15793#comment-515 “California ranked 49th, trailing only Alabama.” — With this small amount of money available, are we still going to buy iPads?

Luxury items like iPads are not something the taxpayers and school system should be responsible for providing.

It’s especially irresponsible to borrow a billion dollars in bonds to purchase non essential things for schools. Taxpayers will have to pay it back with interest instead, adding to the cost. Whatever happened to fiscal responsibility?

if the people want kids to have iPads, add a new tax to pay for it. Let’s see how popular that is!

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