Tuesday, the parents and teachers of three LAUSD high schools and some of the middle schools that feed into them, had the chance to vote on the issue of whether or not they wanted to be part of the “cluster” that would be under the future direction of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Out of the three highs schools, Roosevelt, Santee and Jordan, Santee and Roosevelt appear to have said yes to the plan, along with their middle schools. Jordan High School was still up in the air.
(Here’s the LA Times write up.)
But, although the vote seems to be going mostly the mayor’s way, one of the activist teachers involved told me that Antonio knocked the socks off exactly nobody with his grand vision when he came to speak at the three high schools. It’s not that people didn’t like his plan for the schools, said the teacher. “It’s that it wasn’t at all clear what his plan was.” Nevertheless, the teacher said, when it came time to vote the AGTBBTT factor kicked in: Anything’s Got to Be Better Than This.
The final vote tally should be available later today.
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This has got to be something of a comedown for the Mayor who once dreamed of wielding real power over the whole LAUSD just as his buddy Mike Bloomberg has over the folks at Livingston St. in the Apple. Still, you gotta start somewhere, eh?
“We don’t understand it, but something has to be done.”
Well, that’s one reason why we have so many useless government programs.
Like the war in Iraq…
Everything has to do with Iraq.
I thought everything had to do with “useless government programs.” Just trying to stay on message…
reg, once again you offer nothing but two attacks on Woody for having the audacity to make a comment, taunting him by dragging Iraq into everything…so sad and infantile. Yes, that’s your idea of “Just trying to stay on message,” since that is your message: attacking every commenter. I’m “beginning to see a pattern,” alright.
Well I suppose Lucinda is right since it is a truth universally acknowleged that public education is a “useless government ptogram.”