Monthly Archives: October 2010

With two weeks left in the national campaign season and the political balance of Congress on the line, voters are going to have to make some gut-wretching, nose-holding choices this November. Including myself. Now that the President Obama is out on the campaign trail, and the issues become more clear as the spotlight is put more on him than on partisan commercial ads, we can be literally assured that gridlock will be returning to Washington if the Republicans takeover the House. Not only will we see a formulated attempt to repeal health care reform, but we will see a radicalization … Continue reading →

The closer we get to the November Mid-term elections, the less I’m believin’ this hype about a Republican takeover. The more we read between the lines, the more we see the same soup warmed over with the Republicans. This “Pledge to America” is a watered down version of Newt Gingrich’s “Contract for America” they advanced before the House takeover of 1994. I mean, really…the Republicans haven’t had a new idea since Lincoln. How many different times and different ways can you push anti-tax, anti-race, anti-immigrant, family values (anti-gay, anti-welfare), personal responsibility (anti-crime, pro-prison, pro-death) agenda? It worked twice; once during … Continue reading →

The big community splash that is being made over the news over the takeover of Inner City Educational Foundation, better known as ICEF, the parent company of the popular View Park Prep Charter Academy, is sending shivers through the nation’s independent charter school movement. A community based charter school system that grew that old fashioned way, through community and parent empowerment, ICEF currently operates fifteen schools, mostly in South Los Angeles. Despite a lack of cooperation, and, in many cases, opposition from the city’s dominant (and the nation’s largest failing) public school system, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), ICEF … Continue reading →