Locke Watch
September 11th, 2007 by 
Celeste Fremon
This morning the Los Angeles Unified school board will vote on Locke High School’s petition to become a Green Dot charter school. The district has backed itself into a corner on this one so I predict an approval, yet not without a fight from the teachers’ union.
The truth is, if LAUSD doesn’t approve the charter, Steve Barr and the Locke leadership will just take it to the state level where it will be approved—thereby cutting the district out of any relationship with the school at all, now and forever
(Here and here are links to the back story if you want to refresh your memory.)
I’ll post all the details here at WLA as soon as there’s a decision. With any luck, I’ll know the outcome by lunch time, so check back.
Posted in Education, Green Dot, LAUSD | 
2 Comments »
September 11th, 2007 at 7:59 am
yet not without a fight from the teachers’ union.
What about doing it “for the childrennnnnn?”
September 11th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Before we start deciding that Charter Schools solve all problems, Celeste, let us recall that while you were up in Big Sky Country the State issued an indictment against anothr Charter School Operator for fraud and misappropriation of state funds. It was a scam.
And Woody – keep trashing teachers. That’s a great way to recruit them, Here in LA the UTLA is up in arms because they haven’t bneen paid. A glitch in a new payroll system has left people underpaid, unpaid and what have you since last spring with the problems still uncorrected. Think that makes the union willing to trust the district. And that scam artist up in Sacramento didn’t pay the teaching staff as much as the district up there with no benefits. Yep, great idea – maybe we’ll get some of your favorite “Mexicans” next – how’s that Woodster?