LAUSD Board Update
At a special meeting this afternoon of the LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District) Board of Education, the board voted to approve a bond of $7 BILLION to improve safety and repair aging schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
According to the email version of Tamar Galatzan's Galatzan Gazette (omg how cute!) subscribers to her email newsletter "will receive a more detailed discussion of the bond and its implications for education in the next Galatzan Gazette in two weeks." If you'd like to be on Tamar's mailing list, Denise Campos at denise dot campos at lausd dot net can hook you up.
Hopefully, the Board will dish all the details sooner than I get my next edition of the Gazette.
$7 Billion?
Seriously? Seems like there's an LAUSD bond before the voters every couple of years; and nothing ever really gets better. And don't look now LAUSD, but the Charter Schools are going to be looking for their cut of that pie.
More details as they become available...
UPDATE: Here's the full LAUSD Board report on the bond in all its pdf file glory. Grab a bag of popcorn and a soda... it's gonna be a loooong read.
UDATE 2: Word is that the above pdf file may not reflect updated changes in some figures such as tax rates and charter allowances. We'll try to find an ammended version of the report (or feel free to send me a link) with the correct final figures.
According to the email version of Tamar Galatzan's Galatzan Gazette (omg how cute!) subscribers to her email newsletter "will receive a more detailed discussion of the bond and its implications for education in the next Galatzan Gazette in two weeks." If you'd like to be on Tamar's mailing list, Denise Campos at denise dot campos at lausd dot net can hook you up.
Hopefully, the Board will dish all the details sooner than I get my next edition of the Gazette.
$7 Billion?
Seriously? Seems like there's an LAUSD bond before the voters every couple of years; and nothing ever really gets better. And don't look now LAUSD, but the Charter Schools are going to be looking for their cut of that pie.
More details as they become available...
UPDATE: Here's the full LAUSD Board report on the bond in all its pdf file glory. Grab a bag of popcorn and a soda... it's gonna be a loooong read.
UDATE 2: Word is that the above pdf file may not reflect updated changes in some figures such as tax rates and charter allowances. We'll try to find an ammended version of the report (or feel free to send me a link) with the correct final figures.
Labels: lausd $7 billion bond, lausd board of education, tamar galatzan
Posted by Debbie @ 7/31/2008 06:07:00 PM
6 Comments:
First of all, the original amount of the bond was said to be $3.2 bliion.
Then, at the last school board meeting, they say, "Wait, move it to the next meeting (today)" -- and it magically jumps to $7 billion.
BUT DON'T WORRY, there was an oversight committee meeting (if it was held as planned) this afternoon, just hours before the $7 billion dollar vote later in the afternoon.
EXCUSE ME!!! What business or agency has ONE, brief afternoon meeting concerning $3.8 billion (the increased amount) -- and all the questions and answers are worked out for final approval a couple hours later???
Most people can't even agree on Subway or Quizno's for their office's $5.00 sandwich order.
But $3.8 billion...no problem!
AND HERE'S THE PART YOU WON'T READ ABOUT IN THE DAILY NEWS OR LA TIMES:
According to Zuma Dogg's extensive staff research with the County Tax Accessor's Office:
If this $7 billion bond passes, the amount of bonds that the LAUSD district will have outstanding will EXCEED the amount they are allowed to sell off.
It's kinda complicated to explain here, but it's like "stockpiling" bond money for the future, but they won't even be able to sell off the bonds to raise the money to use for what they are promising.
SO DON'T THINK ANY OF THIS MONEY WILL BE GOING TO ANYTHING TO RAISE THE GRADUATION RATE ANYTIME THIS GENERATION.
But here's what the money is said to be used for. (Not that it ever ends up going for what they say.)
* Smaller classrooms. In the form of breaking up bigger campuses into smaller campuses. (Which ZD supports. This is the secret to any "Charter" success. 500 size student body per school.)
* MORE MONEY SPENT ON NEW CHARTERS. (Of course. That's what ZD says all of this mayoral concern/takeover of the schools from AB 1381 to his LAUSD cluster(F) takeover that is under way.
* New energy efficient refrigerators in the cafeteria. Because top priority for LAUSD is improving the efficiency of the electric usage of the refrigerators. I KNOW, I KNOW...YOU HAVE TO SAVE MONEY AND CONSERVE ENERGY...
I ASSURE YOU IF YOU SAID TO PARENTS WE WILL RAISE THE GRADUATION RATE BY 20%, But it will cost 20% more electricity, they would say, "burn away." IF YOU ARE RAISING BOND MONEY, THAT SHIZNIT BETTER GO RIGHT INTO THE CLASSROOM GRADUATION RATE.
* NEW BUSSES: Clean, green driving machines. AND YOU GOTTA PAY FOR THEM. IT DOESN'T COME OUT OF REGULAR LAUSD OPERATING BUDGET.
GOTTA PASS A $7 Billion bond or else all the money to fix the system will be wasted by refrigerators and busses.
But hey, they were able to discuss and finalize the whole $7 billion with one oversight meeting this afternoon.
HOW DID THAT PUBLIC NOTICE OF THE MEETING AND PUBLIC COMMENT GO, MONICA, ANTONIO, ELI AND STEVE?
Is'nt she too fat for his taste?
Antonio did not show up because he has been spending over time with new girlfriend, Martha who is also his fundraiser
7 MILLION FOR WHAT?
OTHER LANGUAGES? More children? why?
WHY does the LAUSD Board continue to authorize bond measures? Well, it's like the question, "Why does a dog lick his own (privates)? Because he CAN." So does LAUSD continue its ways- they do what they do because THEY CAN. At least the dog doesn't do it for money.
The LAUSD Board is, collectively, a lying sack. Individually they are just smaller sacks, with each reporting to their constituents on their personal illusions of grandeur, including a 100% graduation rate (MONICA GARCIA). A 75% graduation rate would be about the best done in LAUSD’s history- back in the 60’s and 70’s.
I think the public is more objective. How about just being able to produce students who are competent at reading, writing and math?
And don't forget, this bond measure is, as some posters on Mayor Sam like to say, just "lipstick on the pig." And it’s some very expensive lipstick, at that. Not much will be or has been trickling down to teachers and students to change anything.
The only thing that the LAUSD is good at is this, "self-aggrandizement," and they practice that on a regular basis.
“Class, everyone repeat after me, ‘boondoggle.’” Vote “NO” on bond measures.
In CD-14
Until LAUSD is broken into smaller districts, I simply do not see a compelling reason to vote for another bond.
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