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Melvoin Watch

“Speak UP” For White Parents With Financial Privilege

Nick Melvoin’s charter school advocacy group releases a study proving they were wrong about reopening schools after the COVID-19 pandemic.

4 min readJun 11, 2021

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From Speak Up’s Web Site

Speak Up leaders have previously criticized LAUSD for, they say, unnecessarily delaying the reopening of campuses.

- LAist

For months, Speak UP ran a campaign insisting that the parents of minority students were demanding that schools immediately reopen. They claimed that their polling and outreach proved that the teachers’ union, UTLA, was wrong in their assertion that families from minority communities, who are more likely to be struggling economically, wanted a cautious reopening plan that also protected their hard-hit neighborhoods from the spread of COVID-19. However, when Los Angeles campuses did reopen, these students stayed home in much higher percentages than their peers from more affluent areas. Speak Up’s claim about reopening turned out to be as fake as the Tweets one of their leaders posted in Austin Beutner’s name.

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Carl J. Petersen
Carl J. Petersen

Written by Carl J. Petersen

Parent, special education advocate and former LAUSD School Board candidate. Still fighting for the children. www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com

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