So, who are the people that operate the Coalition for Safe & Healthy Neighborhood Schools? That most likely answers itself, too, but just in case it doesn’t, I’d like to know how many of them are the mayor’s real estate developer cronies who have a financial vested interest.
The largest expenditures were for printing and mailing campaign pamphlets.
Hopefully some little guys made a few honest dollars and not some no-bid printing contractor. Aside from that, it’s wasted money. How many people actually read all the campaign crap that clogs up our mailboxes. I don’t. Whatever they say in their literature is “spin,” and not how I choose to learn about issues or candidates.
Okay, I need a life and have time to do even a minimal amount of research on these things.
Wait a minute! That is part of my life!
It’s as much a part of my life now as it was when I was busy working and raising kids who went to our miserable schools, and managed to graduate from universities in spite of the miserable schools they attended.
Measure Q would be the fifth bond in 11 years that would benefit the Los Angeles Unified School District. Local charter schools would receive $450 million from the bond.
Fifth in 11 years!?! Even with my lousy LAUSD arithmetic education I figured out that’s a bond measure ever 2.5 years. What the hell are they doing with all that money?
The bond would mainly pay for building repairs and remodeling as well as new technology.
Buildings need repairing and remodeling just as our houses do, but can’t school maintenance crews do the work they’re qualified to do, and open-bid contracts let for the more complicated stuff?
Technology should be paid for out of the budget and/or donated by the companies that make the technology. Yes, kids absolutely must learn how to use the new technologies, but they can still learn a lot of things the old-fashioned way, by reading a book and taking notes.
Ooops! I forgot. Our schools don’t teach them how to read, and more than half of L.A.’s population walks the streets as functional illiterates.
In promoting the bond, LAUSD officials note that even after the completion of its current $20 billion construction program, more than 200,000 students will remain in portable classrooms.
$20 billion!
What the $#%^&$ are they spending that money on? Marble inlayed walls? Schools that look like Roman halls? The highest price tagged no-bid contracts?
Twenty billion dollar$ and there are still will be more than 200,000 students who will continue their education, such as it is, in portable classrooms.
