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</div><div>The contributions -- from philanthropist Eli Broad, heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune, former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and others -- were made to <b>California Charter Schools Assn. Advocates,</b> a political action committee in Sacramento, before the May 19 election. That group then forwarded those funds to a local committee, which poured the money into the campaigns of pro-charter-school candidates.</div><div>
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</div><div>Dec. 2, 8:40 a.m.: An earlier version of this article attributed a statement from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to Karen Denne, chief communications officer for the foundation. The statement was from Gregory McGinity, Eli Broad’s policy advisor. In addition, an earlier version stated that Wal-Mart heirs Carrie W. Penner and Jim Walton gave the charter association a combined $620,000 in 2014; they gave $720,000. </div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>At stake were four seats on the seven-member Board of Education -- and the direction of the school system, </b>whose leaders have been in a pitched battle over the growth and oversight of charters in the nation’s second-largest district.</span></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One result was the election of Ref Rodriguez, who received the lion’s share of the funding from the charter supporters’ PAC. He became the first charter school operator to join the board. Another charter-backed candidate lost her bid for reelection.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Under campaign laws, the Los Angeles-based political action committee was required only to identify the Sacramento PAC as the source of the funding, even though both are part of the same charter-school-advocacy organization.</div><div>
</div><div>Donations made to California Charter Schools Assn. Advocates</div><div>
</div><div>As a result, the full list of donors remained unknown -- and was only revealed in September, when the state charter group disclosed its contributors in a California campaign finance report.</div><div>
</div><div>Though the practice appears to be within the law, state campaign regulators said they are concerned about how the contributions remained unreported for so long. In this case, state law required complete disclosure only twice a year. Had the contributions been made directly to the Los Angeles PAC, the donors’ names would have been revealed before the election.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jay Wierenga, a spokesman for the California Fair Political Practices Commission, said the goal of state law is “to elicit and promote meaningful disclosure to the public when it counts -- before an election.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>A spokesman for the California Charter Schools Assn. said the group did nothing wrong in the way it handled the contributions. He emphasized that the group’s objective is to improve education opportunities for families.</div><div>
</div><div>The donors “see the value in our goals and mission to provide a high-quality educational option to parents and students,” said Richard Garcia, director of elections communications for the charter school association.</div><div>
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</div><div>Garcia noted that charter advocates lack the extensive financial base of dues-paying members that unions can rely on. The L.A. teachers union was the main force opposing charter-backed candidates in the school board elections, which were widely recognized as the costliest in the nation.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Recently, the Broad Foundation spearheaded a proposal to enroll half of Los Angeles students in charters over the next eight years</b>. Potential funders listed in a confidential June draft, obtained by The Times, included key donors to the charter PAC or the affiliated state charter association, which is a nonprofit.</div><div>
</div><div>Charters are independently managed, publicly funded schools that are exempt from some rules that govern traditional campuses. Most are nonunion.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Earlier this year, The Times asked the charter group for a list of donations made in 2015 in advance of the election. The group declined, but Garcia said in a recent interview that it was not trying to hide anything in setting up the local PAC to receive money from the state PAC.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“Local committees are established across the state to give a local flavor to each race, including [a] local name on disclaimers for campaign materials,” he said. “This is a common practice as campaign consultants believe it best to maintain local name ID.”</div><div>
</div><div>Voters following the election in Los Angeles knew only that the money flowing into the campaign during 2015 came from the state charter PAC.</div><div>
</div><div>Though the names of the donors were absent from L.A. records, some did appear in campaign reporting documents related to a </div><div>state Senate race in the San Francisco Bay Area. In that contest, the state charter group had not created a local PAC to channel the funding, so some contributors were revealed.</div><div>
</div><div>The name the charter group gave its Los Angeles PAC was <b>Parent Teacher Alliance </b>in Support of Rodriguez, Galatzan, and Vladovic for School Board 2015. Though Rodriguez won, incumbent Tamar Galatzan lost despite charter support. Richard Vladovic, who was supported by unions and charters, was reelected.</div><div>
</div><div>In terms of money, the charter PAC was the biggest player in these contests, spending about $2.7 million. The teachers union spent about $1.6 million, according to state and local records.</div><div>
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</div><div>Among the charter donors not disclosed in L.A. filings was Bloomberg, who gave $350,000 in 2015. Bloomberg already had contributed $250,000 in 2014, an amount that was disclosed prior to the election because the funds arrived before the end of 2014.</div><div>
</div><div>Other undisclosed donors from 2015 included:</div><div>
</div><div>• Gap clothing co-founder Doris Fisher ($750,000). The longtime charter supporter also gave $550,000 in 2014.</div><div>
</div><div>• Wal-Mart heirs Carrie W. Penner ($150,000) and Jim Walton ($225,000). The two also gave a combined $720,000 in 2014.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">• Barbara Grimm ($500,000), owner of one of California's largest farming operations</span>, who started a charter school near Bakersfield. Grimm also gave $586,400 in 2014.</div><div>
</div><div><b>• Emerson Collective ($150,000), a corporation under the control of Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs</b>, which supports charitable and political causes.</div><div>
</div><div>• <b>Investor John H. Scully </b>($100,000). He and his </div><div>wife also gave $400,000 in 2014.</div><div>
</div><div>• Broad ($50,000). He also gave $305,000 to the state charter PAC in 2014.</div><div>
</div><div>Broad contributed to the state charter PAC not to delay disclosure but “because he supported the organization's statewide election strategy,” said Gregory McGinity, who is Eli Broad’s policy advisor.</div><div>
</div><div><b>The issue of “dark money” has touched Broad and the Fisher family before. In the 2012 election, the Fishers gave $9 million and Broad $1 million to groups that concealed the sources of these donations.</b> The money was used to oppose a tax increase to fund education and in support of a ballot measure to limit union participation in political campaigns. The tax increase passed, the anti-union measure failed, and the dark-money maneuvering led to fines for some of the participants, although not the donors.</div><div>
</div><div>Under the law, donors cannot direct a PAC to spend money in a particular election, and the charter group said it followed those rules. About three-quarters of its reported 2015 spending was in the L.A. board races. Nearly all the rest went to the Bay Area state Senate race.</div><div>
</div><div>See the most-read stories this hour >></div><div>Garcia likened the charter group's donations to funding that the local teachers union received from the California Teachers Assn. and the American Federation of Teachers.</div><div>
</div><div>Donations from those unions and others were disclosed prior to the election. Combined, the PACs from four statewide and national teachers unions provided $390,000, according to records filed with the L.A. Ethics Commission. The union also assembled its war chest through a $400,000 loan from the union's strike fund and $40,900 a month that is collected from voluntary contributions to the United Teachers Los Angeles PAC, which is called Political Action Council of Educators, the union said.</div><div>
</div><div>“In UTLA's case, many members voluntarily give $8.33 per month to our PAC,” union President Alex Caputo-Pearl said.</div><div>
</div><div>As in this year's elections, the mega-donors have not always carried the day. In the 2013 elections, candidates backed by wealthy donors lost two of three contests, including one in which incumbent Steve Zimmer prevailed. He used the identity of the donors as an effective counterpunch to their resources.</div><div>
</div><div>“They're truly funded by and accountable to the 1%,” Zimmer said of the charter advocacy group.</div><div>
</div><div>But that issue was not the linchpin of this year's election. The two defeated incumbents were successfully targeted for being in office during L.A. Unified's failed and costly effort to provide every student, teacher and campus administrator with an iPad. The charter group spent its money to use the iPad debacle against incumbent Bennett Kayser, who lost to Rodriguez. The teachers union used its dollars to do the same to Galatzan, who lost to challenger Scott Schmerelson.</div><div>
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</div><div>Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have presumed that voters would have full knowledge of who was contributing to campaigns when it struck down many limits on the amount of donations, said Jessica Levinson, a Loyola Law School professor who specializes in election law and heads the L.A. City Ethics Commission.</div><div>
</div><div>“The purposes of the disclosure laws are to give the public information, which is much more useful the faster it comes,” Levinson said. “The concern is that you can use an intermediary and, essentially, legally mask who is behind a donation.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Co<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">nverting the nation’s second-largest</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a title="L.A. Unified School District" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/education/schools/l.a.-unified-school-district-ORGOV000940-topic.html" style="font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(69, 145, 184);">school system</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">into an all-charter district is a long-shot -- one that requires state approval and support from a majority of teachers.</span></div><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But members of the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education said they were exploring all options -- even those that are unlikely -- as the district contends with a charter school expansion plan spearheaded by the Broad Foundation. The plan seeks to enroll more than half the district’s students in charter schools over the next eight years.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Tuesday, a board committee reviewed a report that outlines the process for becoming an entirely charter school district. Board members said the goal was primarily to identify how the district could benefit from the same flexibility currently provided to charters.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Charters are publicly funded, independently operated and free from some regulations that govern traditional schools. Most are non-union.</p><p style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Board member Richard Vladovic said the chances of L.A. Unified becoming an all-charter district were “slim and none.”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another board member, Monica Ratliff, who chairs the budget, facilities and audit committee, said she was “not hearing that a majority of board members want this district to go all charter.” Instead, Ratliff said the committee was simply trying to learn how it could seek more autonomy from the state.</p><aside class="trb_embed" data-content-id="84109884" data-content-size="small" data-content-type="story" data-content-slug="la-most-read-stories-this-hour" data-content-subtype="story" data-role="socialshare_item imgsize_ratiosizecontainer " data-state="" style="position: relative; width: 360px; margin: 5px 30px 30px 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; float: left; z-index: 50; clear: left; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="trb_embed_media" style="width: 360px; transform: none;"><span data-content-kicker="Most Popular" /><a class="trb_embed_media_link" href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-most-read-stories-this-hour-story.html" data-content-media-present="false" style="float: left; width: 360px; margin: 0px; position: relative; display: block; text-decoration: none;" /><div class="trb_embed_related" data-role="lightbox_metadata"><a class="trb_embed_media_link" href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-most-read-stories-this-hour-story.html" style="float: left; width: 360px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; position: relative; display: block;"><span class="trb_embed_related_title" style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LAHeadline, "Times New Roman", serif; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">See the most-read stories this hour >></span></a></div></div></aside><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It’s not fair that the current system provides autonomies to the charter schools and not to traditional public schools,” Ratliff said.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Board members asked for more research on the financial impact of becoming a charter district and what would happen to the charter schools already approved by L.A. Unified. The board also asked for a breakdown of the waivers from state regulations provided to charters but not to traditional systems.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><a href="http://www.latimes.com/newsletters/la-newsletter-essential-california-signup-page-htmlstory.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(69, 145, 184);">Interested in the stories shaping California? Sign up for the free Essential California newsletter >></a></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Critics of the projected $490-million charter expansion plan argue that it threatens the sustainability of the district and could hurt its ability to serve students. Supporters say the plan seeks to improve options for parents who are not satisfied with traditional public schools.The district is looking for ways to stem declining student enrollment from a range of factors, including charter school growth.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Any decision on whether to begin the process for becoming a charter district would require a board vote.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The school district would then need more than 50% of its teachers to sign a petition favoring the change. It would also have to find alternative options for students who don’t want to attend a charter school, according to the report.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">State Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and the state Board of Education must separately approve petitions for all-charter districts. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">California has seven charter school districts that serve between 100 and 1,500 students. The state board has oversight of those districts.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Board member Ref Rodriguez said the conversation about all-charter districts is important even if L.A. Unified does not intend to pursue such a change.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“What it might lead us to is an application for waivers,” Rodriguez said.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Times receives funding for its digital initiative, Education Matters, from the California Endowment, the Wasserman Foundation and the Baxter Family Foundation. The California Community Foundation and United Way of Greater Los Angeles administer grants from the Broad Foundation to support this effort. 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</div><div>By Sharon Noguchi</div><div>snoguchi@mercurynews.com</div><div>POSTED:   10/31/<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2012 </span>10:52:28 AM PDT | UPDATED:   4 YEARS AGO</div><div>
</div><div>With an unprecedented surge of cash from charter schools and their high-tech backers, normally low-profile school board campaigns have morphed into big-bucks contests to elect charter-friendly candidates and defeat their challengers.</div><div>
</div><div><b>The six-figure spending by independent committees highlights the muscle of charter proponents in Santa Clara County, where the county Board of Education is rapidly approving charter schools that compete for students and funding with established public schools.</b></div><div>
</div><div>The most aggressive campaign appears to be aimed at Anna Song, who is running for her fourth term on the county Board of Education.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Santa Clara County Schools Political Action Committee has raised nearly $200,000 from Jan. 1 through Oct. 20, and financed auto-dial calls plus four mailers slamming Song and three <b>supporting her challenger, trustee David Neighbors.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>"It's an outrageous amount of money to take out one school board member," said Song, who's running for a seat that represents areas served by the Santa Clara, Milpitas and the Berryessa school districts.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Neighbors, who has benefited from $76,000 worth of PAC mailers and auto-calls for his candidacy and against Song, said about the PAC, "I don't know much about it."</span></div><div>
</div><div>Created at the suggestion of the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">California Charter Schools Association, the PAC is run by Santa Clara County political consultants Jay Rosenthal and Jude Barry.</span></div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>Through Oct. 20, Neighbors raised $23,539 for his campaign. Song raised $6,525</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The PAC is also sending mailers to re-elect Grace Mah, who's running for the county school board to represent areas within the Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos and Sunnyvale school districts. Her opponent, Dave Cortright, is an outspoken opponent of Bullis Charter School in Los Altos.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The PAC dwarfs spending in county school board elections, where serious candidates typically have spent closer to $30,000. "What they're doing could be very significant," said Terry Christensen, professor emeritus at San Jose State and a specialist in state and local politics. Because so little is typically spent in a county school board race he said, "it wouldn't take much to have an influence."</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Among the big donations to the PACs are $75,000 from the <b>California Charter Schools Association Advocates</b>; $50,000 from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings; $50,000 from Gap heir John J. Fisher; $40,000 from Emerson Collective, the nonprofit run by Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs; and $10,000 from Rocketship charter schools board member Timothy Ranzetta.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Those reached, including Jobs' spokeswoman Candace Pugatch, declined to comment on their contributions.</div><div>
</div><div>The charter school PACs serve as a new counterweight to unions and construction companies that have dominated big giving in local school board races.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Another political action committee, Parents for Great Schools,</b> has raised $41,000 and spent at least $17,000 promoting Magdalena Carrasco for a seat on the East Side Union High School district board. As of Tuesday afternoon, Carrasco had not reported all the PAC contributions on disclosure forms, although she did list $15,250 in other contributions, many from Southern California interests.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Carrasco did not return calls seeking comment.</span></div><div>
</div><div>In addition, the committee is supporting Leland Lowe and Karen Martinez, challengers for the Alum Rock School District board.</div><div>
</div><div>Parents for Great Schools also received $10,000 from Jobs' Emerson Collective. In addition, it took in $15,000 from the California Charter Schools Association Advocates, $5,000 from Ranzetta and $5,000 from philanthropist Carmen Castellano of Saratoga. Smaller contributions came from ex-San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer, PACT Executive Director Matt Hammer, Silicon Valley Leadership Group President Carl Guardino and Rocketship land-use consultant Erik Schoennauer.</div><div>
</div><div>Carrasco is one of two challengers seeking to oust two incumbents on the East Side board. Fellow newcomer Thelma Boac, a retired East Side principal, has reported raising $13,300 for the campaign. Incumbent Lan Nguyen hadn't filed a report by last week's deadline but said he's raised about $21,000. And incumbent Patricia Martinez-Roach reported carrying over $84,543 from previous campaigns.</div><div>
</div><div>The spending outpaces expenses in two races in San Jose Unified's two district elections. Paul Murphy, Sandra Engel and Teresa Castellanos have raised slightly less than $10,000 each. Candidate Cathy Davis failed to submit contribution reports.</div><div>
</div><div>"It's unprecedented that so much money is coming into this race against people who are more measured with their approach to charter schools," said Cortright, who is self-funding his campaign and plans to spend about $1,000.</div><div>
</div><div>Had donors given money directly to support high-performing schools, they would have had a more beneficial impact, Song said.</div><div>
</div><div>While Song voted against Rocketship Education's application to open 20 charter schools in the county, Mah voted against Bullis Charter School's renewal. Rosenthal said that the endorsements are "based on the totality of board votes" and the candidates' temperament.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Both Song and Cortright deny that they are anti-charter. Ironically, the mailers slam Song not for her charter votes, but for the board's lavish contracts with current Superintendent Xavier De La Torre and former Superintendent Charles Weis -- who might saddle the County Office of Education with an underwater mortgage on his luxury condo. But Song has been among Weis' detractors. </span>And the mailers praise Mah, who has been one of Weis' staunchest supporters.</div><div>
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</font></font></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> California Charter School Association is a super-rich, highly political power broker in politics</b>. It wants to control every possible seat in the state legislature so it can pursue its goal of mass privatization of public schools across the Golden State.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Consider this dirty trick: It has created an organization called the “</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Parent Teacher </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alliance,</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” which endorses candidates. Thus, the candidates can say that they were endorsed by the “PTA,” even though this Parent Teacher Alliance has no affiliation with the Parent Teacher Associations of the state.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Los Angeles School Report, whose editorial content is directed by Campbell Brown, </span><a href="http://laschoolreport.com/rift-in-democratic-party-over-education-policy-spotlighted-in-record-spending-on-state-races/#more-40162" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">has a story about a crucial legislative race</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> playing out in a district where the assemblyman vacated his seat. Voters will decide tomorrow. The go-to speaker quoted in the story is </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Marshall Tuck, who ran and lost as the pro-charter candidate against Tom Torlakson, the state superintendent. Tuck speaks from the “reform” point of view, labeling those whom he doesn’t like as union candidates.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Here is the bottom line on spending: <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">A rift in the Democratic Party over education policy comes into sharp relief one day before California’s primary election as a record $28 million has been spent by outside groups on state races, one-third coming from groups supporting charter schools.</em></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There you have it: with all the issues facing the state, one-third of the $28 million spent by outside groups on state races is coming from charter advocates.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The latest example in Southern California is playing out in an open state Assembly district seat in Glendale, Burbank, La Canada Flintridge and parts of Los Angeles where an independent expenditure<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> committee supporting charter schools has spent more than $1.2 million to back a Democratic candidate, flooding voters’ mailboxes over the past eight weeks with attack ads on a fellow Democrat supported by teachers unions</span>…..In the 43rd Assembly District seat, being vacated by Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Burbank, due to term limits, an independent expenditure committee called the Parent Teacher Alliance, sponsored by the California Charter School Association Advocates, has spent $1.2 million as of Friday, state campaign finance records show. Parent Teacher Alliance is not associated with the well-known Parent Teacher Association.</font></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Records show that donors to the CCSA Advocates Independent Expenditure Committee include Michael Bloomberg, Doris Fisher, Jim Walton and Eli Broad.</font></p></span></font></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Glendale City Clerk Ardy Kassakhian has been backed by the California Teachers Association, which is considered among the most powerful lobbyists in Sacramento. Glendale City Councilwoman Laura Friedman has been endorsed by the California Charter School Association Advocates, the political arm of the CCSA. The union and education reformers have clashed over education policies like teacher tenure and the expansion of charter schools.
</font></span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How touching to see that billionaires like former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Doris Fisher (of the Gap business), Jim Walton (of Walmart), and Eli Broad are deeply engaged in financing the phony “Parent Teacher Alliance.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here is the spending:</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">State campaign finance records also show the California Teachers Association’s Independent Expenditure Committee has spent $47,721 on the race: $35,791 on mailers opposing Friedman and $11,930 supporting Kassakhian.</font></em></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CCSA committee has spent $910,791 supporting Friedman and $304,355 opposing Kassakhian as of Friday, records show.</font></em></em></em></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is the score: $1.2 million assembled by the California Charter Schools Association to beat Kassakhian; $47,721 spent by the California Teachers Association to support Kassakhian. Goliath vs. David.</font></em></em></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The fight over charter schools in California is really a fight over the future of public education in the state. Will there be public education 20 years from now, or will community schools be run by entrepreneurs and charter chains whose corporate leaders are based in other states?</font></em></em></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you live in the 43rd Assembly District, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">please vote for Ardy Kassakhian. </strong>DON’T LET THE BILLIONAIRES BUY YOUR PUBLIC SCHOOL.</font></em></em></p></div><div><font color="#000000"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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