It has been just over 300 days since I started this blog, and in that time, I have written 95 posts. I started it as a dinky little Tumblr account, and have grown into a full-on Blog. And while I started by just sharing this with my students and friends, there are now people, whom I have never […]
Great Public Schools Now
OPINION: $3.75 Million for LAUSD schools? Tell me more….
*Posts marked as “Opinion” express more opinion than I usually express, and less hard data. Here is another opinion post if you are interested. Yesterday, Great Public Schools Now offered $3.75 million to highly achieving LAUSD schools. GPSN is the initiative funded by Eli Broad to drive reform in LA schools by providing funding to […]
Game of Broads: Magnet tops Westlake Schools
In an on-going series, I have been looking at the neighborhoods highlighted by Great Public Schools Now (GPSN). GPSN is mostly funded by Eli Broad, and I have asked the question: Who deserves Eli Broads money? I call it “Game of Broads”, for when you play the game of broads, you win or you die. There […]
GPSN Released Data that I'm Not Allowed to Release
This one website has been bothering me for about a week now. It is a small press release by Great Public Schools Now, which I have discussed in earlier posts. I applaud the way they use data to make decisions, but the data on this part of their website gives me pause. It seems completely innocuous, […]
Game of Broads: South East Cities Middle Schools
Great Public Schools Now isn’t just targeting schools in Pico Union – it is focusing on 10 different areas of Los Angeles that they have deemed to be high-need. I am going to take a look at each of those areas in a segment I will call “Game of Broads”, with one essential question – […]
Should Equitas Charter Academy get $2 Million?
Great Public Schools Now is an organization endowed with a TON of money from Eli Broad, whose mission is “ensuring all Los Angeles students receive a high-quality education by accelerating the growth of high-quality public schools.” It has become a major point of contention, as UTLA dubbed it the “Broad-Walmart plan” and the LAUSD Board […]