Education – California
Failing Schools or Failing leadership?
by Tribuno Del Pueblo | Issue: September / October 2011
Since the 1980s, factories all over southern California have been shutting down or downsizing, many moving to countries where wages are lower, others using technology to replace workers. Their corporate owners did this to increase their profits, and it worked – the rich got richer by creating unemployment and reducing wages for those still lucky [...]
“Let’s Take Over the Takeover!”
by María Elena Martínez | Issue: September / October 2011
When the LA School District abruptly turns their middle school into a charter-school, people protest. “Let’s take over the takeover,” vowed a South Los Angeles resident about the Los Angeles Board of Education’s recent move to close Henry Clay Middle School and then reopen it with Green Dot, a charter-school corporation, as operator. In effect [...]