AN OPEN LETTER TO LAUSD'S SUPERINTENDENT BEUTNER

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When you were hired as superintendent, the fact that you didn't have an education background was deemed a deficit, but I think nothing could be further than the truth. What has been a major deficit in the past for all your predecessors has been their complete and utter lack of business and legal experience in running an LAUSD, which is in reality one of the biggest businesses in the state. All your predecessors at LAUSD only moved up from teaching into various higher and higher echelons of LAUSD administration only if they always did exactly what they were asked to do by their superiors without questioning it- whether it made any sense or not. So now what we are left with in LAUSD administration and what you have to deal with is an entrenched administrative bureaucracy, where nobody thinks and administrators and others just rubber stamp whatever they are asked by their superiors.
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11 2018


by Leonard Isenberg
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STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS? WHY WAIT 8 YRS. TO LIFT MY CREDENTIAL?

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8 years after being summarily fired on completely fabricated charges by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)- charges that really have more to do with how much money LAUSD continues to save by disproportionately targeting and removing more expensive high seniority teachers- the California Commission On Teacher Credentialing (CTC), after renewing my credential in 2012 and 2017 has finally gotten around to moving definitively to lift all my teaching credentials.
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11 2018


by Leonard Isenberg
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WHAT KIND OF WOMEN SUPPORTED KAVANAUGH AND WHY?

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In the early 1970's I was working in New York City, where there was a massive demonstration by women on 6th Avenue in Greenwich Village confronting sexism and the social and economic inequalities and violence that women had been and...
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10 2018


by Leonard Isenberg
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BRETT KAVANAUGH- A RECALLED PRODUCT OF HIS TIMES?

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The most compelling and yet ignored argument supporting that Supreme Court candidate Brett Kavanaugh had impermissibly sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford and other women is that these actions are most consistent with his uncontested male chauvinist upbringing and consequentially resulting legal beliefs against women's liberating birth control. Kavanaugh and his like-minded supporters seek to use the law to ignore and negate scientific accomplishments in birth control, because they would finally put women on an equal footing with men by giving them control over their bodies. Up until now women have literally been left throughout human history holding the [amniotic] bag for men's uncontrolled and too often violent sexual actions against them. Roe vs. Wade and birth control have methodically moved to change this.
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09 2018


by Leonard Isenberg
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KPFK RENAISSANCE

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In taking cognizance of the present state of purposefully suppressed news reporting of anything that even remotely resembles the truth in a yet corporate dominated commercial and non-commercial media, it is incumbent upon one to pose a viable media alternative,...
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09 2018


by Leonard Isenberg
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INVENTING THE NEWS

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Corporations and their foundations have arrived at a point in this country where they have outright final say over virtually all the content of commercial and non-commercial media. Especially when it comes to reporting- or not reporting- what has come to be called the fake news. No, it might not be what The Donald calls fake news, but it's fake nonetheless.
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09 2018


by Leonard Isenberg
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LONG FAILED DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND LAUSD? LAUSD JUST LIES MORE

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If you compare predominantly minority filled and long failed Detroit public schools with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), there is only one glaring difference- LAUSD has been run by a better bunch of liars than Detroit.
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09 2018


by Leonard Isenberg
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UTLA: WHY A TEACHERS' STRIKE AT LAUSD NOW?

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The Social Studies teacher in me says it would be a big mistake to try and figure out why UTLA President Alex Caputo Pearl and the rest of the reality challenged leadership of UTLA choose now to threaten a strike...
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09 2018


by Leonard Isenberg
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THE ALTERNATIVE REALITY OF LAUSD SUPT. AUSTIN BEUTNER

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What is most disingenuous about the L.A. Times "Reporter" Howard Blume's latest article entitled "LAUSD chief signals desire to limit teacher job protections and change funding rules" is that virtually nothing in the article is even remotely true. And worst yet, ersatz "Reporter" Blume knows it's not true. But at least he's got a good excuse for not telling the truth, since at the L.A. Times, they have gone from 1400 to 350 reporters and where all remaining reporters like Blume know full well that they too will be out the door, if they even attempt to actually report the truth as to what is going on at LAUSD and elsewhere.
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09 2018


by Leonard Isenberg
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How Perjury Usurped Due Process in California Education- A Technical Brief

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Many educators have inquired why the teaching profession in California is in such dire straights. Much publicized has been the stories of the statewide teacher shortage, forced retirements, and a lack of new teachers coming into credentialing programs. The teaching profession, which in the past has been the most respected and important profession has been diminished in many ways to constant abuse, bullying and outright crimes perpetrated by the administrators, private law firms and by extension local school boards. To explain the current we must look to the past and examine the education code last updated in 1976.
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08 2018


by Leonard Isenberg
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