William S. Hart Union High School District
School board member for the William S. Hart Union High School District in Santa Clarita; former teacher and principal at LAUSD
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Gloria Mercado-Fortine
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FROM Gloria Mercado-Fortine
Which Way, L.A.?
Are California Public Schools Giving Up On Their Students? Some 20,000 California “students cannot afford to wait any longer.” That’s according to the US Justice Department, which has backed the ACLU in a lawsuit against the state’s elected Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torklakson, and the Department of Education.
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Who are the political players in the LA teachers strike? Thousands of LA public school teachers are going to be back out on the picket lines for a second day. They walked off the job Monday after failing to reach a contract agreement with the LA Unified School District, despite months of negotiations.