Here's the plan for this week.
Duffy is mobilizing the union through the chapter chairs across the district. UTLA is planning an "eight-to-eight" strategy for Tuesday, which means that we will be at Beaudry from 8:00 in the morning until 8:00 at night, and we will counter whatever strength Green Dot and its allies think they will have out there.
The alternate resolution sponsored by LaMotte and Zimmer was seconded, it seems, by Nury Martinez, which means that Tamar Galatzan is the only swing vote.
All we need to do, then, is to persuade her to support our vision for the future of our schools. And all she has to do is to vote for the LaMotte-Zimmer proposal.
If she isn't ready to do that, the board can vote to table both motions again, and give everyone more time to talk about the issues. With the traditional calendar schools and A-Track only just about to come back into session, that seems to be a reasonable option for any board member.
Here's the calendar:
Monday, August 24, 12:15 p.m. (lunch) - emergency whole-chapter meeting in GHS Library. We will detail the strategy for the week and marching orders for our mobilization there.
Monday, August 24, 4:00 p.m. - our GHS Statement of Principles will be faxed to board members. Be sure you have signed a copy by then. (Continue to circulate it to colleagues and friends at other schools.)
Monday, August 24, 6:00 p.m. - Yolie Flores-Aguilar, our board member and author of the Greeen-Dot-friendly motion, will be hosted by the GHS parents' community in the GHS Cafeteria. Teachers, students, and community members should be there. We endorse a civil discussion, but we want her to know that Garfield is united.
Tuesday, August 25, 8:00 a.m. - UTLA begins its mobilization at Beaudry. Track A and traditional calendar teachers, alongside community members and parents, need to be there early in order to match any show by Parent Revolution.
Tuesday, August 25, 2:00 p.m. - board debate is allowed to open on the Flores-Aguilar resolution. (The agenda is posted on the LAUSD Board site, http://laschoolboard.org/.)
Tuesday, August 25, 3:15 p.m. - two buses leave Garfield with Track B and C teachers along with more parents and community supporters to join the mobilization at Beaudry.
Tuesday, August 25, 8:00 p.m. - we hope to celebrate a vote for the positive future of schools in Los Angeles!
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Garfield stands united.
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Shouldn't Green Dot be struggling desperately to improve student achievement in the schools it already has rather than trying to impose itself by force on more schools in an effort to expand its ineffectual empire?
ReplyDeleteMoreover, shouldn't Geen Dot being working to fix one of its original schools, Ánimo Watts, currently 42nd worst in Los Angeles County? For all their bluster about having "great schools," [1] and "a model that works in the inner city" [2] Ánimo Watts 494 API [3] sure seems to contradict all of their corporate spin and privatization propaganda.
ReplyDeleteBen Austin's schtick is "get 51% of parents signed up and we'll give you a great school." It would be no small irony for the parents of Ánimo Watts to start a petition to demand the Green Dot Corporation provide them a great school?
[1] Marco Petruzi
[2] Steve Barr
[3] http://projects.latimes.com/schools/custom-ranking/county/los-angeles/statistic/api-scores/order/lowest/
[4] http://www.parentrevolution.org/pages/transform_your_school