Back To School

“All Students Matter”?

The new LAUSD Superintendent pulls out all the stops in his first Opening of Schools Address. Somehow he forgot about special education.

“My charge to you, as we come back from several years that taught us the importance of education and our role as a school system, is to remember the basic hope of education — that all students matter, and the future needs them now more than ever.”

- Alberto M. Carvalho

Using the money he earned through his creation of Microsoft, Bill Gates is among those in the billionaire class that has used their fortunes to finance the attempt to destroy public schools. While his children had the advantage of a very expensive private school education, Gates has saddled the less fortunate with endless standardized tests, charter schools that are too often corrupt, and a Common Core standard that was created without the input of education professionals.

With this history, it was surprising that the LAUSD decided to celebrate next week’s opening of schools at a theater emblazoned with the…