Comments on: Defiant Mayor Promises Continued Involvement https://www.laschoolreport.com/mayor-villaraigosa-reacts-to-school-board-elections/ What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District) Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:44:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.4 By: Bruce Smith https://www.laschoolreport.com/mayor-villaraigosa-reacts-to-school-board-elections/#comment-216 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:50:31 +0000 http://laschoolreport.com/?p=6530#comment-216 More ethical campaign tactics might help reform keep a good name — to the extent that it still has one. Linking Steve Zimmer to the RFK education complex was a tactical disaster that makes the entire Coalition for School Reform look bad; and trying to import New York-style education reform to Los Angeles via the money of Mayor Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch could prove to be another blunder. The Democratic Party needs to have a serious conversation with itself regarding whether it wants to be seen rightly as part of our plutocratic problem rather than part of the solution. And UTLA is not static; it is now much better led than it was at the start of Mayor Villaraigosa’s term.

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