I THOUGHT ELI BROAD WASN'T INTERESTED IN BUILDING CHARTER SCHOOLS?
I TOLD YO AZZ...NOW THAT VILLAGROSA USED PRIVATE MONEY (RAISED BY PROMISING CITY APPROVAL OF PENDING PROJECTS) TO BUY THE RECENT LAUSD SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS, AND TOOK OVER THE SCHOOL BOARD WITH HIS MUPPETS, ELI "MR. PHILANTHROPIC" BROAD WILL BE GOING BIG WITH HIS CHARTER SCHOOL PUSH, CAUSE HE HAS A HELL OF A LOT TO GAIN (MONEY AND POWER) BY FUNDING THE PRIVATIZATION OF OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM.
AND TO THE LOSER CRYBABIES WHO TRIED TO DENY IT AND SAY ZD WAS DELUSIONAL...I DO NOT ACCEPT YOUR APOLOGY!
ZD's Prediction of Broad's Charter Move
Here's the gameplan. Guys like George W. Bush, Eli Broad and Richard Riordan want to privatize the education system by creating a Charter School network. If Eli gives all these millions and millions to Charter School groups, to open up new schools, perhaps his own "people" (Broad staffers, freinds, cronies, associates, pals) can get the jobs and positions; Eli sits on the board of AIG insurance (so maybe that company can handle the policies); plus I think Eli and pals have construction businesses and interests; AND there are non-profits to tie into all of this (and we all know how easy it is to milk THAT grant money).
So congrats to Eli, Antonio, Riordan and all their cronies/associates who can now start getting paid like a "mo fo". You see, since Villar has control of the school board, they can start handing out school charters like medical marijuana co-op licenses. And Charter schools can start popping up all over the place. (Zuma Dogg wants PLUM to make sure these Charter schools are not constructed to close to medical marijuana dispensaries. So please consider that in your siting, please. Thank you!)
AND ZUMA DOGG IS ALL FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS!!! HOWEVER, I AM NOT ALL FOR RICH BILLIONAIRES PROFITEERING OFF KIDS MILK MONEY.
Broad gives charter school group a boost
The philanthropist gives $6.5 million to Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools to help it add 13 campuses in L.A.
By Joel Rubin, Times Staff Writer
May 24, 2007
In his continued effort to bring pressures to bear on the Los Angeles public school system, billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad has committed more than $6 million to a high-performing charter school group to help it dramatically expand.
BROAD CHARTER SCHOOL STORY IN LA TIMES
RELATED STORY: INSPECTOR GENERAL HAS TO STEP IN OVER SHADY LAUSD CONSTRUCTION TIME CARDS
HILARIOUS QUOTE FROM STORY: Connie Rice, who chairs the district's bond oversight committee, said Tuesday that she also has directed her staff to investigate the timecard issue.
"I'm trying to figure out whether it's an appearance of a conflict or a lack of a clear protocol that would give you early warnings about serious things," she said. "What you want to do is you want to make sure that whatever timecard-signing procedure you have gives you early warning about fraud.
"That's what you're really trying to avoid," she added, "that nobody takes the money and runs off to Tahiti."
[KEEP TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT CONNIE. PERHAPS A REPORT SHOULD BE BUDGETED FOR AND COMMISSIONED, AND OF COURSE AN AD HOC COMMITTEE SHOULD BE FORMED. WE NEED TO STUDY OUR WAY TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS. AND YES, TAKING MONEY AND FLYING TO TAHITI IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO AVOID! YOU MUST BE VERY WELL EDUCATED!]
AND TO THE LOSER CRYBABIES WHO TRIED TO DENY IT AND SAY ZD WAS DELUSIONAL...I DO NOT ACCEPT YOUR APOLOGY!
ZD's Prediction of Broad's Charter Move
Here's the gameplan. Guys like George W. Bush, Eli Broad and Richard Riordan want to privatize the education system by creating a Charter School network. If Eli gives all these millions and millions to Charter School groups, to open up new schools, perhaps his own "people" (Broad staffers, freinds, cronies, associates, pals) can get the jobs and positions; Eli sits on the board of AIG insurance (so maybe that company can handle the policies); plus I think Eli and pals have construction businesses and interests; AND there are non-profits to tie into all of this (and we all know how easy it is to milk THAT grant money).
So congrats to Eli, Antonio, Riordan and all their cronies/associates who can now start getting paid like a "mo fo". You see, since Villar has control of the school board, they can start handing out school charters like medical marijuana co-op licenses. And Charter schools can start popping up all over the place. (Zuma Dogg wants PLUM to make sure these Charter schools are not constructed to close to medical marijuana dispensaries. So please consider that in your siting, please. Thank you!)
AND ZUMA DOGG IS ALL FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS!!! HOWEVER, I AM NOT ALL FOR RICH BILLIONAIRES PROFITEERING OFF KIDS MILK MONEY.
Broad gives charter school group a boost
The philanthropist gives $6.5 million to Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools to help it add 13 campuses in L.A.
By Joel Rubin, Times Staff Writer
May 24, 2007
In his continued effort to bring pressures to bear on the Los Angeles public school system, billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad has committed more than $6 million to a high-performing charter school group to help it dramatically expand.
BROAD CHARTER SCHOOL STORY IN LA TIMES
RELATED STORY: INSPECTOR GENERAL HAS TO STEP IN OVER SHADY LAUSD CONSTRUCTION TIME CARDS
HILARIOUS QUOTE FROM STORY: Connie Rice, who chairs the district's bond oversight committee, said Tuesday that she also has directed her staff to investigate the timecard issue.
"I'm trying to figure out whether it's an appearance of a conflict or a lack of a clear protocol that would give you early warnings about serious things," she said. "What you want to do is you want to make sure that whatever timecard-signing procedure you have gives you early warning about fraud.
"That's what you're really trying to avoid," she added, "that nobody takes the money and runs off to Tahiti."
[KEEP TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT CONNIE. PERHAPS A REPORT SHOULD BE BUDGETED FOR AND COMMISSIONED, AND OF COURSE AN AD HOC COMMITTEE SHOULD BE FORMED. WE NEED TO STUDY OUR WAY TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS. AND YES, TAKING MONEY AND FLYING TO TAHITI IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO AVOID! YOU MUST BE VERY WELL EDUCATED!]
Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 5/24/2007 01:36:00 PM
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District official's authority is curbed
He signed timecards for school construction consultants supplied by his firm. Two probes are launched in L.A.
By Evelyn Larrubia, Times Staff Writer
May 23, 2007
The Los Angeles Unified School District has limited the authority of one of its senior-level construction managers to supervise consultants that he supplies to the district through his side firm after a Times article exposed the practice.
According to a memorandum sent Monday evening to school board members from Guy Mehula, the district's chief facilities executive, a higher-ranking manager will review timecards for consultants hired from TBI Associates when they are signed by Bassam Raslan, one of the company's owners and a district regional director of construction.
The school district is awaiting the results of an investigation by its inspector general before deciding whether to take action against Raslan or one of his consultants, Stephen Cole, who records show billed for dozens of days when he was absent from his principal jobsite: an addition at Mount Washington Elementary School.
Raslan did not return telephone calls Tuesday. A district spokeswoman said Cole has been hospitalized for the last week, suffering from high blood pressure.
Raslan signed Cole's timecards over a three-month period and billed the district more than $88,000 in fees, despite allegations by Cole's direct supervisor that Cole was padding his hours.
Raslan also signed the timecards of four other TBI-supplied staffers in a five-month period. Records show that nine of TBI's 25 contractors to the district work under Raslan.
"In order to avoid any appearance of impropriety while the inspector general investigation is underway, we are immediately updating district timecard procedures to add a second level of review by the director of construction in the instances where an owner is signing their employees' timecards," Mehula said. "After the inspector general review of this process, we will add additional checks and balances if necessary."
Connie Rice, who chairs the district's bond oversight committee, said Tuesday that she also has directed her staff to investigate the timecard issue.
"I'm trying to figure out whether it's an appearance of a conflict or a lack of a clear protocol that would give you early warnings about serious things," she said. "What you want to do is you want to make sure that whatever timecard-signing procedure you have gives you early warning about fraud.
"That's what you're really trying to avoid," she added, "that nobody takes the money and runs off to Tahiti."
Can you READ you dum dum??
He is giving money as a GIFT to a non-profit so they can build; where are the contracts that will benefit Broad or his company?
You need to learn the difference between philanthropy and business. Clearly you see conspiracy beneath every rock.
Confucius say: "People who jump to conclusions often times break neck while doing so."
Ahem....er....excuse me!
The taxpayers, Eli Broad, and the local, state and federal could quadruple the $13K that we are currently spending to baby sit the 750,000 "students" of LAUSD!
81% of LAUSD is either illegal or anchor babies; 40% of them can't speak English and are illiterate in their own language; and 50% of them are HS drop-outs!
What the hell is everyone thinking???
DO NOT CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE!
Eli Broad and Villar should simply find some old factories or abandoned bldgs and convert them into classrooms for the hordes of illiterate Mexicans. They don't deserve anything better! Look what happened to Eli Broad's failed state of the art Santee School! $150M for NOTHING! Zoner the Tagger is the only success story out of Santee!
LA is MEXICO! Either deport them or stay out of my pocketbook!!!!
Enough is enough!
I have heard that AV's political team or on Broad's retainer.
Has any one heard that?
If so ace, skelton, barkin, hacopian, trujillo must be making bank.
I saw that the old Belmont High School that had hazard waste after they spent millions trying to build it and sat for years is now being once again built. Does anyone know how the hell they got rid of all that hazardous crap in the ground?
Funny at the MTA meeting all the radical bus union people were there outraged to say they are being racist by increasing their rates. Very funny that MTA spokesperson said its because of the Bus Rider's Union lawsuit MTA had to get 20,000 new buses and that's where their budget is going. Be careful what you wish for.
2:12pm,
He has to donate to non-profits to get the Charter schools built, so he can install his cronies to approve the contracts to benefit his various interests.
It's like the Special Event Fee Waiver scam. You have to throw a special event, so you can milk it.
Likewise, you have to fund Charter schools so you can milk them.
Great scheme; let's everyone do it...
How naive can you get and still be breathing?
This boy's about there, jousting at imaginary windmills.
9:35pm,
that's the point...NOT everyone can do it...only the billionaires.
and it would all be well and good, but there's a slight transparancy problem, and unless you are on the short list of cronies and service providers...forget it. you won't be a part of the competitive bid process.
Eli Broad is not just GIVING money as a gift. How naive are you?
The "non-profit" is the front for the contracts.
Philanthropy is a love of mankind, or a benevolent act, which is just the desire to do good. You can not believe that this is the motive behind Eli Broad and Richard Riordan. Their love of mankind. And if you do, you are a very uninformed and uneducated, politically out-of-tune voter. Just the way the city likes them.
I really think they are doing it for the money. They used the mayor to get something done that those two old coots couldn't get done on their own. Now they'll fund the mayor in his next race and he'll (by way of his new sucky school board) do what they want him to with school bond money and the building contract money.
I think you need to learn the difference between philanthropy and business. You seem to have them confused with people who care about LAUSD and it's operations (oh and don't forget charter schools-they really care about them for some reason) and the same people who want to award contracts to specific contractors. That is just one small, easy to explain aspect. There are more reasons those good old white boys want that money. You will all see in the end. What's pathetic is why the mayor is giving it to them. He could have won any race without their money. You could tell by what the mayor said during the school board takeover attempt and then the school board race, that he clearly is uninformed on many LAUSD issues. His educational advisors/staffers and his chief of staff have got to be with holding vital information from him or else spinning it so well he believes them or he just doesn't want to spend the time on the issue. But of course, that chief of staff was Riordan's chief of staff, so I guess that's not a hard thing to figure out. An LAUSD graduate could figure that scam out. She must share her former boss's views. What a coincidence.
Clearly there IS conspiracy to be found under this rock, as you so aptly put it.
You wrote:
Confucius say: "People who jump to conclusions often times break neck while doing so."
Confucious never said anything that dumb.
Helllooo..non profits are anti-gang programs Antonio gives tons of money to. Same idea to give money hiding it in non profits that way it looks ok. Why do you think Laura Chick N Shit is getting such crap and defiance from clowncil to audit? Thanks to Bitter Bernie maybe all the non profits will finally be audited as they should have been years ago. Read this piece in LA Times about a non profit LA Bridges corruption.
....In 2000, the city controller recommended that L.A. Bridges be shut down and redesigned, saying that the contractors lacked the required coordination with other gang programs, the police, schools and community groups.
Then-Controller Rick Tuttle also concluded that Bridges agencies were not required to show what effect the program might be having on gang violence and membership.
The mayor at the time, Richard Riordan, agreed with the findings and announced he was cutting off funding to L.A. Bridges. The City Council unanimously voted to overturn his decision.
"They had money coming into their districts," said Malcolm Klein, a USC scholar on gang programs, regarding the council vote.
The vote occurred after more than 300 backers of L.A. Bridges, including employees of contractors who were receiving millions of dollars from the program, packed City Hall....It also helped that many of the contractors themselves were influential in city politics, which led to criticism that the program involved political patronage. Six of the contracts are held by current or former appointees to city commissions.
In addition, 172 political contributions were made to city politicians by executives and employees of 20 of the 26 contractors for L.A. Bridges I and II. The contributions totaled $48,500, including $7,200 to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and smaller amounts to council members Wendy Greuel, Janice Hahn, Bill Rosendahl, Jose Huizar, Jan Perry, Ed Reyes and Bernard Parks.
Tamar Galatzan, a high level B'nai B'rith operative and a former Chief Counsel of the notorious ADL of B'nai B'rith was elected to the seven member Los Angeles Unified School Board yesterday. The ADL is alleged to be a branch of the Israeli MOSSAD. The Los Angeles office of the ADL, where Galatzan had her office, came under close scrutiny recently for spying on Arab, Muslim and Christian activists who are critical of Israel and its policies against the Palestinian people. They collect and maintain extensive files on pro-Palestinian activists in the US which they then send to the MOSSAD in Israel say the allegations.
Tamar Galatzan, as an official of the ADL, was quoted in a Los Angeles news tabloid, saying something very chilling against the publisher of La Voz de Aztlan. She was quoted saying, concerning our publisher, "We're going to keep an eye on him." We believe that her statement was designed to intimidate the staff of this publication into not publishing information critical of Israel. The ADL of B'nai B'rith has also published a significant amount of spurious and false information about La Voz de Aztlan on their website.
Now the Mexican-American community of Los Angeles should keep an eye on Tamar Galatzan and what she does on the school board which will impact the education of our children. Galatzan joins two other "Daughters of the Covenant" on the school board, Marlene Canter and Julie Korenstein.
Ernesto Cienfuegos of La Voz de Aztlan reported on Tamar Galatzan in a May of 2002 article titled, "How journalists are censored" published at http://www.aztlan.net/censored.htm Galatzan is mentioned in the last paragraph of this revealing article.
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