Tell LAUSD to Follow the Law -- Stand with Parents Fighting for Kids! 
Parents believe the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is ignoring California law at the expense of their children. The law is simple -- evaluation of adults employed to educate students must include information on how well children are actually doing toward meeting grade level standards. And if the responsible staff is struggling, the law requires the district to provide help to those adults so they can be more effective for kids.
If you agree, take action to notify the district that you want them to follow the law and stand up for kids. Send a letter to the school board today.
This past fall, a group of courageous parents, fed up with the district and school bureaucrats assigning subpar staff to classrooms in their neighborhoods based on the assumption that parents wouldn't know what's going on, decided to sue the district to force it to follow the law. And thanks to that brave push a trial is set for this June.
The parents believe the district and the kids can no longer afford willful failure to follow the law. At a time when the district is trying to fix a $500 million annual budget deficit, it is forfeiting millions of dollars available from Sacramento for the very purpose of conducting effective performance evaluations.
If you agree that the district should follow the law, take action now- tell the school board to do what's right for kids. Send a letter today to support the parents' effort and encourage LAUSD to finally include student achievement in the evaluations of principals and teachers, and to provide help to those that are struggling.
Fight a bill that punishes kids for the state's budget mess
AB 1172 blames families and great teachers for the state budget mess that Sacramento has shifted to our public schools.
There is no question that our schools are in the midst of a fiscal crisis. But students and teachers didn't cause the problem and scapegoating them certainly won't solve it.
Education funding should follow students--not empty chairs.
Take action to stop AB 1172, a bill that would limit quality public school opportunities for kids on the basis of that bogus argument. Click here to send a letter to your Senator and members of the Senate Education Committee to help kill the bill!
AB 1172 seeks to deny children across California access to high-quality public charter schools. Specifically, the bill would allow government bureaucrats and politicians to deny a public charter school the right to exist on the basis that it would put a school district in a financial bind.
But districts across the state are already in trouble and the reason has nothing to do with kids at public charter schools. So, AB 1172 would simply deny kids quality public school options.
Send a letter today to fight this unfair scapegoating!
Why are schools really in financial trouble? Because politicians in Sacramento have used gimmicks and cuts to balance the state budget on the backs of students. This year alone, the state government has deferred over $9.5 billion constitutionally owed to public schools. That's money being siphoned out of local classrooms to fund other non-education programs in Sacramento's annual shell game to patch over the state's fiscal mess.
But, instead of taking ownership of the problem, politicians in Sacramento have attempted to shift the blame to students who don't have a vote.
Innovative, high-quality public charter schools didn't cause the state's financial turmoil, but they do provide educational opportunities for kids that are essential to help turn our economy around.
Don't let politicians deny kids these high-quality public school options! Send a letter to your Senator today.
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