Michelle Michelle

Happy Thanksgiving?

Dare I say that Thanksgiving is based in racism? I dare. It is. Growing up, my mom always did it up on Thanksgiving (and I loved her for it) and for the longest time, I believed it was a day to give thanks, we all did.

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Carl Petersen Carl Petersen

Excluding Special Education

Confronted by evidence that the charter school industry is not fully serving children with special education needs, will the LAUSD act?

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Michelle Michelle

Is it OK to be white?

Yes, of course. Vilifying whiteness is destructive. Instead, we (whites) need to recognize the historical, structural, and embedded implications of ‘whiteness' so we're able to work through them and create a transformed identity as white people committed to equality and social change.

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Carl Petersen Carl Petersen

Nick Melvoin's Fire Sale Continues: The “School Performance Framework” was supposed to give parents more data. Instead, it manipulates information so charter schools can more easily take classrooms from LAUSD students.

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