AN OPEN LETTER TO LAUSD'S SUPERINTENDENT AUSTIN BEUTNER

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The longstanding endemic corruption at a clearly dysfunctional and always prospectively bankrupt Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will not get better until some of LAUSD's dyfunctional practices- both financial and academic- are finally addressed, eliminated, or radically changed.
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6

06 2019


by Leonard Isenberg
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LAUSD: BANKRUPTCY REORGANIZATION A BETTER SOLUTION THAN PROP EE

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The problem with passing a Proposition EE to once again bailout the longstanding dysfunctional Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is that it does nothing to address the underlying LAUSD endemic corruption and dysfunction that has continued now over decades to put administrative and LAUSD "agreed corporate vendors" interests and profit above those of what should be LAUSD's primary and fundamental function of educating students with enough fairly compensated teachers.
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31

05 2019


by Leonard Isenberg
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LAUSD PARCEL TAX...TO REWARD ENDEMIC LAUSD MISMANAGEMENT?

The problem with passing a Proposition EE to once again bailout the longstanding dysfunctional Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is that it does nothing to address the underlying LAUSD endemic corruption and dysfunction that has continued now over decades to put administrative and LAUSD "agreed corporate vendors" interests and profit above those of what should be LAUSD's primary and fundamental function of educating students with enough fairly compensated teachers.
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30

05 2019


by Leonard Isenberg
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COLLUSIVE SETTLEMENT OF LAUSD STRIKE

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The collusive settlement of the UTLA-LAUSD strike just announced on the morning of January 22nd by LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner, UTLA's President Alex Caputo-Pearl, and L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti predictably fails to consider the real reasons for LAUSD's longstanding failure to educate its predominantly minority and still segregated student population in a district that remains more concerned with the profits of its corporate "agreed upon no-bid vendors," rather than spending money on the timely addressing of its students' subjective academic levels and needs.
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22

01 2019


by Leonard Isenberg
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AT LAUSD THE PROBLEM IS NOT JUST CLASS SIZE

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While class sizes are too large at LAUSD, which is problematic to say the least, this is not what makes it impossible for teachers to be effective. Rather it is the fact that the vast majority of these students have been passed through their prior grade-levels- social promotion- without ever mastering the prior grade-level standards that would have allowed them to be effectively engaged by their teachers in subsequent grade-levels.
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16

01 2019


by Leonard Isenberg
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UTLA'S STRIKE WILL PRIVATIZE EDUCATION AT LAUSD

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I can't think of a better way of accelerating the corporate takeover and privatization of public education with corporate run charter schools than UTLA going on strike at this time. This is not to say that the issues UTLA has raised leading up to the strike are not valid, but going on strike at this ttime without a clear and mandatory prerequisite of organizing LAUSD parents to support the strike by keeping their children out of LAUSD schools has not been put in place.
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12

01 2019


by Leonard Isenberg
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UTLA STRIKING LAUSD INTO BANKRUPTCY- AND FUNDAMENTAL POSITIVE CHANGE?

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Our longstanding failed model of yet segregated non-education at LAUSD needs to come to an end and the looming strike by UTLA teachers might just be the best and most efficient way to accomplish this.
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9

01 2019


by Leonard Isenberg
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HOW UTLA CAN WIN AGAINST LAUSD WITHOUT A STRIKE?

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If United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) President Alex Caputo Pearl and the other leaders of the union really want to achieve their demands for a school work place environment with reasonable class size, administrative support for discipline, fair compensation for teachers, and an end to targeting teachers for removal who seek these and other excellent education goals, they need the support of their students' parents to join them in striking/boycotting LAUSD schools, which will cut off the Average Daily Attendance (ADA) funding from the State of California, based on in-seat student attendance, which regrettably is the only thing that those running LAUSD actually care about.
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7

01 2019


by Leonard Isenberg
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MAKING GLOBAL WARMING REAL ENOUGH TO STOP IT

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Clearly the biggest problem in getting humans to deal with global warming in a timely manner is in making it real enough now for those with enough power and informed vision to change its dismal and unequivocal dark vision of our future, while there is still time to change things for the better.
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3

01 2019


by Leonard Isenberg
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WHAT MAKES A VITAL SENIOR CITIZEN

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Recent medical studies have shown that "Fit Seniors Can Have Hearts That Look 30 Years Younger" than one would have anticipated finding in 70 year old senior citizens. According to the study, these unexpectedly youthful seniors owe their common vitality factor to a shared lifelong engagement with sustained vigorous exercise.
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12 2018


by Leonard Isenberg
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