Roosevelt teachers revolt against Mayor Villar's "Partnership in Education"
"80 FAKE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHES"
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“93 percent of Teachers at Roosevelt don’t have confidence in the Mayor’s Partnership,”
These partial transcripts from 89.3 KPCC were send from a CD 14 reader.
Teachers at one of the 10 public schools run by L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's nonprofit say they're unhappy with the progress of change. KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez says those teachers are threatening to leave the mayor's partnership if promised changes don't happen.
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Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: Roosevelt High School teacher Mario Hurtado voted to hand over governance of his campus to Villaraigosa's Partnership for L.A. Schools. Hurtado said the mayor pledged reforms, extra money, and teacher say in decisionmaking. He said that almost a year and a half later:
Mario Hurtado: I'd say we're the same. I don't think we've noticed any change. And that's the problem.
Guzman-Lopez: Hurtado and a majority of Roosevelt High teachers approved a vote of no confidence earlier this week. Hurtado and others said teachers had no role in restructuring Roosevelt into seven learning academies. More money and new equipment haven't materialized, teachers said.
Yards away, the Partnership's chief operations officer Mark Kleger-Heine heard the criticism. He said the schools' been given more than $200,000 from the mayor's fundraising efforts. When it comes to hearing teachers' ideas, he suggested that the partnership is changing its ways.
Mark Kleger-Heine: Change is a multiyear process and this is the beginning part of change. And so as that happens you learn to work with your partners and you learn to calibrate and work together.
Guzman-Lopez: Roosevelt High teachers asked immigrant rights advocate Juan Jose Gutierrez to join them. Gutierrez said Roosevelt High indicates that not enough people hold Mayor Villaraigosa and other Latino politicians accountable to their promises.
Juan Jose Gutierrez: All these people are our friends, the mayor is my friend, and I'm down, we all know each other, we went to the same schools, we're in talking terms with each other. But the buck has to stop somewhere.
Guzman-Lopez: A spokeswoman said the mayor and Roosevelt High teachers are struggling for the same thing – the improvement of public schools.
Refer back to "80 FAKE NEIGHBORHHOD WATCHES" for the truth about past promises and falses claims.
Link to related story on Villar's Townhall Meeting in Boyle Heights.
Labels: 80 Neighborhood Watches, mayor antonio villaraigosa, Mayor's Partnership in Education, Roosevelt High School
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 5/11/2009 08:50:00 PM
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Tough blow for Antonio's city attorney candidate. Weiss gets nailed by Fox 11 TV - hosting fundraisers with a convicted felon!
http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/local/Questions_Arise_over_Weiss_Contributor_20090511
NO body cares
Did anyone really expect anything to happen differently here when there was no specific plan to be followed?
The flow of students through the educational system does not stop to wait for arrival of the "solution" and delays continue to deprive students of the benefit of improvements in the educational process. Bureaucrats don't figure in the real life impact of delays, but with each year, you have another 2 semesters gone by. That time can't be retrieved if and when "solutions" or "program improvements" finally arrive.
Siding with Tony because of personal affinity was not a good basis for letting him have control of the school, but times were and still are desperate. That's when any promised "remedy" sounds good, and that's part of what's incorporated as the usual style for the Mayor's to get people on his side in other matters, as well.
The school take over was nothing more than another slick idea from Parke for another deceptive political brochure - or should I say commercial now that Parke has graduated to T.V. (and noting from those Weiss commercials, we may have found your achille's heel).
No actual progrss was ever going to be made, afterall it wasn't Green Dot that took over these schools.
As soon as Antonio was told that no quantifying data would be available to boost his gubenatroial campaign, Tony jumped on the first plane to D.C. to "save" the city.
Did you guys actually think that Tony, who sees school grounds the way he sees local dives - just another place to hone his pick up skills - would actually make a difference. That 1.8 GPA should have been a giveaway.
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