February 19, 2021
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But it was the same dog whistle that the Trump administration learned to blow so well, said Otto Santa Ana. He’s a recently retired UCLA professor whose influential 2002 book “Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse” tracked the rise of inflammatory language like “illegal alien” and other such slurs. Using it “became a very easy argument of double attack,” said Santa Ana. “‘Illegal’ forecloses any other consideration of the status of the individual. ‘Alien’ is an ancient term from English common law. Together, the words don’t allow any subtlety.”
‘All of us got it. No one was spared.’ LAUSD teacher changed her mind about in-person classes during COVID MORE The digital sign in front of Walgrove Elementary School in Mar Vista, Los Angeles says LAUSD provides COVID-19 testing at 41 locations. February 2, 2021. Photo by Amy Ta.
When Jordi’s mom, Carla Suarez Capdet, pictured him starting school, she didn’t imagine him on a laptop at home.
“Like most parents, you have this kind of idealized version of what your son’s first day of kindergarten will look like with an oversized backpack and lunch pail and none of that happened,” she says.
LAUSD Superintendent Urges Federal Government to Fund Reopening Schools, Offers No Timetable PUBLISHED 9:15 AM PT Dec. 21, 2020 PUBLISHED 9:15 AM PST Dec. 21, 2020
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LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent has joined forces with education leaders in New York and Chicago to call for federal funds to reopen schools.
LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner says ongoing distant learning is having lasting effects on all students, particularly students of color, and the federal government has not prioritized education.
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Beutner wrote an op-ed in the
Washington Post with the help of the superintendents of Chicago and New York City Public Schools
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the teachers union never took a stance on the issue, with some teachers saying willful defiance has been abused and others saying it takes an important disciplinary tool away from their classrooms. i teach my kids all the time. education is your passport. reporter: tunette powell learned that the hard way. long before her sons were born, she was labelled a troublemaker. as the daughter of a drug addicted father, she struggled in school and life. i was expelled from school when i was 3 years old in preschool. and when i first got the phone call about about j.j., i immediately thought back to that. you know, at a young age, i was told that i was bad kid in school. reporter: tunette proved them wrong, eventually got her college degree, wrote a book, and became an accomplished public speaker, even giving a ted talk. the powells have worked hard to make a good life for their