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MINORITY ADMINISTRATORS FACILITATE CONTINUED LAUSD AND CHARTERS' FAILURE - Perdaily.com

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PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NEWS:

"Most people positing reform in public education have never actually been in a de facto segregated inner city public or charter school and seen the abysmal academic level and chaos caused by students that are profoundly behind grade level. While these students' deficits could be addressed, this hard work is scrupulously avoided in favor of empty rhetoric."This essay by Lenny Isenberg tells it as it is: "There is an exquisitely sick irony to the fact that segregated and purposefully maintained inferior inner city public education could not be maintained at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and elsewhere in this country without the administrative participation of the same minorities it keeps in their unachieving places." Just read it.... and weep.
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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