Patt Morrison for Wednesday, 2/24/10

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:08 – 1:53

Board rules on who is to run schools

At 1p.m. yesterday the Los Angeles Board of Education met to decide the fate of more than 30 LAUSD campuses. Groups of district teachers, charter school operators and even the Mayor’s office are all competing for a chance to run the schools through the Public School Choice program. Superintendent Ramon Cortines is pushing for specific groups to run specific schools and the president of the UTLA is pushing back. Who will win the school yard brawl? Oh, and of course, what will the decision mean for the 40,000 students?

 

Guests:

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LAUSD SUP.

Ramon Cortines, superintendent of LAUSD

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JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL

Michael Taft, principal of Jefferson High School, which is located in South Central Los Angeles and has served the community since 1916

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Jefferson HS is one of 30 Fall 2010 Public School Choice sites.  Superintendent Cortines recommended that Jefferson maintain control over its own campus.  They were competing against Mayor Villaraigosa’s team.  

 

UTLA

AJ Duffy, president of United Teacher Los Angeles (UTLA)

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ANTI-UTLA TEACHER

Larry Sand, President of the California Teachers Empowerment Network

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Sand is a 24 year veteran LAUSD teacher and argues that teachers, students and schools are not the “property” of UTLA and that many teachers disagree with the UTLA stance on the School Choice Plan and other education reforms in the district.

 

PARENT ORGANIZATION

Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution, which was started by the LA Parents Union.  They advocate parents’ rights, great schools, and more accountability.

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2:08 – 2:40

Joseph Stiglitz isn’t FreeFalling
Nobel laureate and Columbia University economics professor Joseph Stiglitz gives the government's efforts to deal with “The Great Recession” a bad grade.  In no uncertain terms, Professor Stiglitz joins Patt for a government report card, starting with the stimulus bill and working their way through the past year.  According to Stiglitz, the past year should have dashed much of our faith in the free-market ethos that's dominated the economic realm for decades, and forced us to question old assumptions about financial markets.  But so far, it's led us mostly into denial and milquetoast efforts, which has ultimately benefited no one more than the banks.

Guest:
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate and Columbia University economics professor; he served on and later chaired President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and was also chief economist at the World Bank; Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
IN STUDIO

 

 

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