Antonio wants union, student protections thrown out at HIS 10 LAUSD schools
This story appears on Ron Kayes web site, www.ronkayela.com. Editors note: Whatever waivers the Mayor gets in his iDesign schools OUR LMU/iDesign schools should get the same. None of this some schools get better deals than others.
You got to love life’s little ironies like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa figuring out one month into the school year — and three years after he wanted to take over all of LAUSD — that there’s 86 state laws that make it impossible to run good schools.
No kidding, he’s cut a quiet deal with LAUSD to seek state a waiver from the 86 state laws that protect teachers and students from administrators who think they can do anything they want with public money. And the school unions are mad as hell.
So here’s the guy who started as a teachers union organizer, the man who these days brings companies to their knees in labor disputes and now suddenly he wants to “waive all laws that can be waived.” because he finds requirements on teacher certification, math training, the employee merit system, student promotion, student retention and dozens other issues.
“Everyone agrees that the regulations imposed by Sacramento have taken dollars away from our classrooms and wasted them on the bureaucracy,” mayoral spokeswoman Emma Soichet to the Daily News’ George Sanchez.
A lot of people who said the same thing for years — like the Valley school breakup movement and other reformers — got the cold shoulder from Antonio and his pals but this time it’s different. “We need to do this quickly because things have not been working in the district for a long time,” said school board president Monica Garcia.
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