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LAUSD’s Austin Beutner ends his term today. How will he be remembered? Written by Danielle Chiriguayo, produced by Bennett Purser and Angie Perrin Jun. 30, 2021Education MORE LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner wraps up his three-year term today. His legacy and actions during the pandemic have been received wildly differently. Photo by Griffin5 (CC BY-SA 3.0). Austin Beutner is stepping down after three years as superintendent of the second-largest school district in the U.S. In his farewell speech on Monday, he said the LA Unified School District is “well on the path to recovery” after a turbulent year. What does his three-year record look like? KCRW talks with LAUSD Board member Jackie Goldberg and West LA-based parent Danna Rosenthal, whose two children are enrolled in the district. ....
Jun. 30, 2021Education MORE LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner wraps up his three-year term today. His legacy and actions during the pandemic have been received wildly differently. Photo by Griffin5 (CC BY-SA 3.0). Austin Beutner is stepping down after three years as superintendent of the second-largest school district in the U.S. In his farewell speech on Monday, he said the LA Unified School District is “well on the path to recovery” after a turbulent year. What does his three-year record look like? KCRW talks with LAUSD Board member Jackie Goldberg and West LA-based parent Danna Rosenthal, whose two children are enrolled in the district. ....
Alleging “blatant anti-Semitism,” a parents group is demanding an apology after a regional chapter of the Los Angeles public school teachers union called for the United States to cease all aid to Israel. The June 1 letter from the parents’ group, California Students United, also asks for an immediate investigation into potential civil rights violations related to racial profiling, saying union leaders have “no business singling out one country and its people, especially a people who have been victims of discrimination, persecution, and genocide for generations.” “The position of the union you lead has thrown gasoline on the fire of what was already a volatile, unsafe, and increasingly frightening environment for Jews,” according to the letter. ....
AP Photo/LM Otero It seems the legacy media is deliberately ignoring these grassroots protests by parents who are concerned, angered, and extremely tired of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), local school boards, and local teachers unions using their children as pawns. Parents have been rising up in great numbers, but if you watched any legacy media, you would barely know it. On February 2, 2021, Los Angeles parents and children organized a Zoom Blackout day One LAUSD student talked about her reasons for standing up. “At first it was kind of great because we didn’t have to go out at all and just do everything from home,” explained “Cicily,” a Los Angeles student in an interview with the Globe, granted with permission from her parents. “But then we all started noticing that it wasn’t really sticking as much. And then some people’s wi-fi cut out. And, you know, it’s super obvious that people are just looking at their phones most of the time. It� ....