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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">omg</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bs</font></div><div><blockquote><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Larry Sand began his teaching career in New York in 1971. Beginning in 1985, he taught elementary school as well as English, math, history and ESL in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where he also served as a Title 1 Coordinator.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Retired in 2009</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, he is the president of the non-profit </span><a href="http://www.ctenhome.org/index.html" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">California Teachers Empowerment Network</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> – a non-partisan, non-political group dedicated to providing teachers with reliable and balanced information about professional affiliations and positions on educational issues – information teachers will often not get from their school districts or unions. In 2011, realizing that parents, taxpayers and others frequently receive faulty information from the mainstream media, CTEN expanded its mission to help the general public understand the array of educational issues facing our country today.</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CTEN was formed in 2006</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> because a wide range of information from the more global concerns of education policy, education leadership, and education reform, to information having a more personal application, such as professional liability insurance, options of relationships to teachers unions, and the effect of unionism on teacher pay, comes to teachers from entities that have a specific <b>agenda. </b></span></font></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sand’s comments and op-eds have appeared in </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, National Review Online, Real Clear Politics, The Weekly Standard, Sacramento Bee, Newsweek, Townhall Magazine, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union Tribune,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Los Angeles Daily News, The Christian Science Monitor,<b> San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register, U.S. News & World Report, </b></span></font></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes, Human Events, Fox and Hounds, Huffington Post, School Reform News, </b>California Political Review, Clarion Call, LA School Report, <b>Breitbart.com, Dropout Nation, CalWatchdog</b> and other publications. He has blogged at </span><a target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Union Watch</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> since 2010 and in May 2011 became a regular contributor to </span><a target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">City Journal</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the <b>Manhattan Institute’s policy publication</b>. Sand has appeared on numerous broadcast news programs and <b>talk radio</b> shows in Southern California and nationally.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sand regularly speaks to political, religious and social groups and has participated in panel discussions and events focusing on education reform efforts and the impact of teachers unions on public education. In March 2010, Sand participated in a debate hosted by the non-profit <b>Intelligence Squared</b>, an organization that hosts Oxford-style debates, which was nationally broadcast on Bloomberg TV and NPR, as well as covered by Newsweek. </span></font></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sand and his teammates –<b> Terry Moe of the Hoover Institution</b> and former U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, opposed the proposition </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- </span><a href="http://intelligencesquaredus.org/index.php/past-debates/dont-blame-teachers-unions-for-our-failing-schools/" target="blank" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Don’t Blame Teachers Unions For Our Failing Schools</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The pro-union team included Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></font></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In August 2010, he was on a panel at the </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Where’s the Outrage?</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">conference in San Francisco, where he spoke about how charter school operators can best deal with teachers unions. Beginning in 2011, he appeared on panels in Oklahoma City, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Diego, San Mateo and Santa Clara in support of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.schoolchoiceweek.com/" target="blank" style="font-weight: bold;">National School Choice Week</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span></font></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Additionally, CTEN hosted two informational events in 2011 – one addressing the <b>radical agenda</b> that is prevalent in many schools these days and the other concerning itself wit<b>h California’s Parent Trigger law.</b> The latter event was covered by both the English and Spanish language press. In March 2013, Sand joined Terry Moe, Gloria Romero and CTA president Dean Vogel in Silicon Valley for a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ARL1hESEE&list=PL0z6BttMYc9yMcV0tcrLegP0qE57xc8ow" target="blank" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">lively discussion</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> on how to fix education in California. In 2015, CTEN and the Association of American Educators hosted an </span><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ybSkYsLBI" target="blank">informational event</a></strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> which examined the </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Friedrichs</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bain</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> lawsuits. In March 2016, Sand </span><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytQ5h3Wv6mM" target="blank">debated CTA president Eric Heins</a></u></strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> on KOCE in </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Orange County</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> about the merits of the </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Friedrichs</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> case.</span></font></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sand has also worked with other organizations to present accurate information about the relationship between teachers and their unions, in 2008 assisting in the production of a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://vimeo.com/2439019" style="font-weight: bold;">video</a> for the Center for Union Facts</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in which a group of teachers speak truthfully about the teachers unions. Additionally, he has been an advisor to student and parent advocacy groups, lawyers, and education and public policy experts. In 2011, he joined the </span><a href="http://www.schoolchoiceweek.com/" target="blank" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National School Choice Week</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> planning committee and became a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">board member of <a href="http://choicemedia.tv/" target="blank" style="font-weight: bold;">Choice Media</a> and the <a href="http://www.aaeteachers.org/" target="blank" style="font-weight: bold;">Association of American Educators</a>. In 2014, he became a <font color="#ff0000">policy advisor at the </font><a href="http://heartland.org/" style="font-weight: bold;"><font color="#ff0000">Heartland</font> Institute</a>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> CTEN maintains an active and strong new media presence, reaching out to teachers and those interested in education reform across the USA, and around the world, with its popular Facebook page, whose members include teachers, writers, think-tankers, and political activists.</span></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Currently viewing the tag: "California Center for Parent Empowerment"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Los Angeles Unified School District bid to dodge Parent Trigger Law fails</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by GLORIA ROMERO on DECEMBER 2, 2014 · LEAVE A COMMENT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The California Senate Legislative Counsel issued last week a sweeping opinion, concluding a controversy as to whether a school district – Los Angeles Unified, in this case – can proclaim itself exempt from California’s historic Parent Trigger law, which enables parents of kids in chronically underperforming schools to transform it if a majority of parents […]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Continue Reading ?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Parent Trigger Law Empowers Parents to Stand Up to Teachers Union</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by GLORIA ROMERO on OCTOBER 22, 2014 · LEAVE A COMMENT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The names Doreen Diaz and Bartola Del Villar appear nowhere in the text of the Parent Empowerment Act, also known as the Parent Trigger, that I wrote in 2010. The law empowers parents to bypass the political paralysis of our education bureaucracy that is responsible for perpetuating the status quo failure of our schools.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Continue Reading ?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anaheim Teachers Union Intimidates Their Members</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by GLORIA ROMERO on OCTOBER 15, 2014 · LEAVE A COMMENT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Larry Sand, a former classroom teacher and president of California Teachers Empowerment Network, summarized it succinctly: “Ah, the commissar has spoken from on high!”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The “commissar” is none other than the president of the Anaheim Elementary Education Association, Kristen Fisher, who dispatched an email to dues-paying union members on Oct. 6.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Continue Reading ?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shine Light On Low-Performing Schools</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by GLORIA ROMERO on AUGUST 7, 2014 · LEAVE A COMMENT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What do Barack Obama, William Jefferson Clinton, George Washington, Sonia Sotomayor, Cesar Chavez, Carlos Santana and John Muir have in common?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Each has a chronically underperforming California school named for him or her. Sadly, following the celebratory ribbon-cuttings, these schools have been left to languish on state-identified “watch lists.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Disturbed by these lists and the […]</font></div>