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		<title>Teachers&#8217; Union Attacks Lynwood Parent Group&#8212; Parents Fight Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This week there was yet another instance of a teachers union using disinformation and fear tactics to try to intimidate parents who want to have an effect on their kids&#8217; school.
See, it&#8217;s this sort of thing, by the way, that causes liberals, who are generally very pro union (and who are always pro teacher), to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compton&#8217;s McKinley Elementary Becomes 1st &#8220;Parent Trigger&#8221; School&#8230;.Maybe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Patrick Range McDonald and Simone Wilson at the LA Weekly are doing a great job of covering the precedent-setting fight that is going on at McKinley Elementary School in Compton where a group of activist parents, together with the activist school reform group, the Parent Revolution, are using a new and controversial law called The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAUSD Audit Alleges Nearly $3 Million in Fraud at Canoga Park Charter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, this story on the $3 Million in fraud and mismanagement accusations leveled at the principal of a San Fernando Valley charter school, New Academy Canoga Park Elementary School, is a doozy.  It seems that the man allegedly deposited more than $1 million in his own investment account, misplaced a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Justice Shorts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The photo above doesn&#8217;t have a thing to do with the stories in this post.  I took it on Friday afternoon when I stopped to talk to police at the scene of an attempted robbery of a West Los Angeles marijuana physician&#8217;s office on Pico Blvd., just west of Sawtelle, in which two people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mayor&#8217;s State of the City Speech &#8211; The Education Take</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Okay, he gave it.  It was pretty good.  Antonio can be quite moving when he puts in the effort.  The man does, after all, have skills.  And, since he is planning to run for Governor, he did put in the effort.
The LA Times has a nice rundown on the main part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charters Lead LA in State Picks 4 &#8220;Distinguished&#8221;  Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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NOTE:  Arrrggghhh.  The lack of a post this morning was pure idiocy on my part.  I wrote this story earlier than usual and figured I&#8217;d wait until midnight to actually put it online.  Then I got busy and plum forgot that I never pushed the &#8220;PUBLISH&#8221; button.  I&#8217;d like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Car Washing for Diplomas &#8211; The Sequel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Saturday, as promised, I went to have   my hideously dirty Escape Hybrid washed by the kids at that new charter high school I wrote about late last week, FreeLA High.
As you remember, FreeLA was opened   by a partnership headed by the Youth Justice Coalition.  Its raison d&#8217;etre is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009:  The Rosebowl,  Citigroup $$ and Education Victories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charter Schools]]></category>
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The Rosebowl  is on as I type (Go Trojans! Fight on!),  so I want to draw your attention to a rather winningly encouraging commercial that will be running at some point during said bowl game.  
(Pete Carroll rules! Trojan defense is awsome! Must stop Derrick Williams!  In the nicest possible way, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUNDAY &amp; MONDAY MUST READS (AND A MUST SEE)</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/sunday-monday-must-reads-and-a-must-see/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/sunday-monday-must-reads-and-a-must-see/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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THIS MORNING AND THE WEEKEND PRODUCED a pile of Must Reads.  Here are 5 from the list:
 1. FRANK RICH TALKS ABOUT BLOGOJEVICH, ACCOUNTABITY AND POLITICAL MORALITY
Yeah, Rod Blagojevich is creepily amusing, writes Rich, but this scandal, while loathsome and deserving of a trip to the slammer,  is nothing&#8230;.comparitively speaking, to a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New South LA &#8220;Education Corridor&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A successful charter school organization named ICEF Public Schools  announced an intriguing  plan today to expand its existing network of 13 public schools to 35 schools in the next four years, all of them located in South LA.   The plan is that, once the 35 schools gear up, the ICEF charters [...]]]></description>
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